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Vol XXXV No. 126

Wednesday, April 17, 2002

  A restaurant with soul
The infamous Fat Shirley's is a South Bend icon because it offers hearty food, black coffee and strange company
By BOB MASTERS
Scene Writer

You can tell a lot about a place by the cars parked in its lot. An abundance of BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes makes an establishment look snobbish; a place like that is as inviting to a broke college student as Cuba is ... [more]


Fine dining: service without a smile
By C. SPENCER BEGGS
Scene Editor

An honest meal is hard to find, sometimes. In the world of theme restaurants, hometown cooking has been sold out to gigantic corporations that are able to give their customers the same home cooking in one of their 942 convenient locations ... [more]