Noodles and Company

The pizza is delicious. Some interesting ingredients that can be combined to your taste. The staff…read moreis friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. The restaurant is immaculately clean. I have friends from Chicago that want to go there when they are in town.

My boyfriend and I were here for the first time tonight and really enjoyed it! It's so cute inside…read moreand we each got a small pizza. I got the number nine and he got the number 10 and his was good but mine was even better! I love the cross. The toppings are so fresh and delicious and then we topped it off with a delightful tiramisu. The staff was very friendly and knowledgeable and helped us navigate the menu when we got there since it was our first time. I'm excited to go back and try some of the homemade pasta and coffee!

Dining room

Arugula Kalamata olives tomatoes feta

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Avanti's Italian Restaurant

3.2(181 reviews)

0.2 mi

I only had the Gondola so I may change my review but this is a great local place for comfort food…read more Try the Gondola

Friendly staff! My…read morehusband and I both had turkey subs. I haven't been to Avanti's in years so I was craving their unique slightly sweet bread. The sandwich was good but I can wait a few more years before I crave it again

Dining area

Avanti's Italian Restaurant - Large cheese and sausage pizza, minus the 2 small corner pieces I ate. Sausage was not abundant Sausage was a mild Italian sausage.

Large cheese and sausage pizza, minus the 2 small corner pieces I ate. Sausage was not abundant Sausage was a mild Italian sausage.

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Turkey Chef Salad. My husband enjoyed this. The ingredients were fresh.

Lucca Grill

4.1(297 reviews)

1.5 mi

Great place on the Route 66 path in downtown Bloomington, IL. It smelled great before we ever got…read moreinside. Seated right away, great service! We ordered the Barber Shopper pizza - the crust was so light it was almost like a laminated pastry crust. Paired it with a side salad with the house made Italian and blue cheese crumbles!

I pleasantly surprised. The sandwich i had was thr best I have had moving to Illinois. Great menuread more

A portion of the bar area.

Baked ziti smothered in cheese with homemade meat sauce. Delicious.

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La Gondola Spaghetti House

3.5(67 reviews)

2.0 mi

I've moved across the country and I still think about how La Gondola could do it better every time…read moreI make spaghetti or try it from another establishment. Drive through spaghetti?! In a a BUCKET?! By the GALLON?! The west could never. La Gondola is a midwestern delicacy that I cannot get out of my head or heart.

I typed in Pizza in the search bar on my Yelp app and Lagondola popped up in the list. When I went…read moreto Lagondola's page, it had two pizzas in the pictures as their advertisement. My wife went in there today to get a pizza and they said they have not made any since Covid. My wife was embarrassed, but I told her maybe they should update their Yelp app!?

Pizza Bread

Our Deep Dish Pizza

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Green Top Grocery

4.7(19 reviews)

1.9 mi

Best natural foods market in Bloomington. Green Top Grocery might be the only one of course. It has…read morea lot packed into this kind of small market and store. Has a lot of things grown locally. The prices are kind of high, which is the only bad thing. A lot of all natural and organic food and items. It's got some pretty interesting things and you can even order a hot meal. The selection isn't as good as something like Whole Foods, but it's locally owned. Has a lot of the things you can find somewhere else cheaper. That's the bad thing about it, so if you're just looking for good prices they won't have these. Even so, there's a few things that aren't bad. The staff is fairly knowledgeable. Comparing to other stores, it seems best as a complement to other places to get groceries. Its worst thing is the prices. The good things include locally grown products, and plenty of options for vegans and vegetarians.

This is by far one of the best health food stores I've ever been too in the state of Illinois. It's…read moreway better than anything too in Chicago nearly 3 hours away! This place offers so much to guests, it's a newer, very clean and well kept store. The selection of what is offered is comprehensive. Amazing health food that is great for my wife who is on gluten free diet. Their soups are absolutely delicious. Great deals and best of all, there's hard to find products I've never seen before! They have an eatery upstairs, they offer classes too! They're always promoting local happenings in the area on the bulletin board by the restroom. Staff here was a pleasure to be around. They even encourage everyone to become an owner too which really isn't much. They have over 6,000 owners and after my experience here I might consider becoming one too! Free boxes! My wife was really happy about how they sort out their trash here too! This is the standard bearer of what a health store should be. I don't come to Bloomington much but I highly suggest visiting this place! One of the best health food stores I've been too!

Inside

AtoZ Catering

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Jack's Restaurant

4.4(185 reviews)

2.2 mi

I came from texas for the special Olympics for my niece. We chose your restaurant for the final…read moreday. She had shrimp tacos I had beef strognof my brother had a gyro and my sister in law had chicken flat bread. The beef strognof was something I will dream of here in texas forever It was the very best that I had EVER HAD IN MY LIFE NEXT TO MY SISTERS GREAT JON

Deviled eggs appetizer was great. Creamy gnocchi and the seafood cioppino were excellent. Family…read morerun restaurant and service was superb. Quaint atmosphere.

Restaurant interior

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Avanti's Italian Restaurant

The beef and sausage sandwich was great. The sausage reminds me of the McDonald's sausage patty in…read morea good way. The sandwich comes plain. I got it with 2 sides of au jus. However I had to add salt to the au jus because it was rather bland.

You can never go wrong with avani's bread and ranch! We always stop in when visiting family. It's…read morevery disappointing that they closed their seating at the ISU location and this airport location is poorly set up . It's definitely not the the same dine-in as in the past but the food is reliable.

Grilled cheese with American.

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Italian Beef and Sausage sub with pepperoncini and au jus

The Olive Bin

4.3(4 reviews)

2.0 mi

•$$$

Stopped in while visiting family. They offer a wide variety of olive oils and vinegars but it's…read moredifficult to try any of them. You have to find an employee and they give you a large sample and walk away. You absolutely don't need a large sample and if you want to try more than one good luck. Perhaps we just went on a bad day but as a cook and a fairly knowledgeable person of oils and vinegars that I like I was hopeful to find a small business close to my mom that we could visit. I won't be back.

This store is a jewel. The employees are always friendly and helpful. The tastings steer me…read moretowards the exact products I will enjoy. Olive Bin is a must-see when entertaining out-of-town guests. I particularly enjoyed the Sicilian Lemon white vinegar in ice water. Refreshing and healthy!

Every flavor is available to taste in the store

Ice cream tasting with balsamic vinegars

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Bread tasting with olive oil

College Hills Meat Shop

4.5(20 reviews)

2.0 mi

Fresh locally owned- great quality and variety. Convenient hours. Would definitely recommend!read more

I have been going here for all the meat needs I have for several years. I've never been…read moredisappointed. They always make a special cut if I ask for it. The quality of the meat here is much better than anything else I found in town.

Front door of College Hills Meat Shop. For some reason, Yelp has their name misspelled with "Hill" instead of "Hills"....

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Revery

4.5(62 reviews)

2.6 mi

A beautiful place for dinner and/or drinks. Great bourbon selection!…read moreMason is most gracious and welcoming! He took care of everything we needed and was helpful in going over the menu with us. Definitely a go to for an enjoyable time

We came here while in town for graduation at Illinois State University. While on the outside it is…read moreunassuming, the inside reveals a clean, large dining room that feels upscale. We had a reservation so we were seated promptly at a large table in its own little alcove in the back. While the place was busy, we could chat comfortably with one another and felt adequately separate from other tables. The menu has a bit of everything, so everyone should be able to find something they like on it. We started with cocktails, mozzarella sticks, and pretzel bites. The cocktails were good but I could've used less sweetness in mine. The mozzarella sticks and pretzels bites were standard, which means they were great as usual. For a group of 5 of us, an order of each was enough to hold us over until the main meal. I personally got the fish sandwich for my dinner with fries. The fish was great and large enough that it hung over the sides of the bun. My only complaint about the sandwich was the lack of tartar sauce on it. The cook must have just added the smallest dash, as the only sign it was there was a little spot of discoloration on the bun. The fish was good but the sandwich would have been better with more moisture from that tartar. The fries it came with were standard shoe string fries. Nothing special but hit the spot all the same. Everyone else at the table enjoyed their meals as well and we left comfortably full with no leftovers. Overall the meal came at a good pace, the atmosphere was nice, and the prices were reasonably. If in town again we would come back here.

Créeme brûlée

Sink salad

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Fish and chips

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Apparently noodles does not care about the environment as they do not accept electronic coupons. Also turns out it is 2011. Thanks a lot GM. PS - watch out for "human" hair in yo noodles. Son. read more

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11 years ago

Look at the picture I posted. Zack can I have some free noodles for this?

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