10-01 Food & Drink

Modern but comfortable environment, good staff, amazing food!
The sweet potato fries are to die for. Will absolutely be coming back for more.

I want to give them between 3.5 and 4 stars.

Advice: Make a reservation.
We did not have one so we had to wait in the very crowded, loud bar downstairs for a table. I couldn't hear my husband talking from across the table and our server was exhausted and over-worked. It was a little dicey at first....

We had been to the bar on a less-busy weeknight and it was just fine. For whatever reason this particular Saturday evening was crazy!

But once we got a table upstairs, our service was excellent and the food was better than expected. The menu items seem ordinary (fried chicken and burgers?!) but it was anything but ordinary -- the chef added some surprises and the flavors were excellent. I have read they hired a new chef and if that is the case, good on him/her! It was delicious!

The decor is nice, the atmosphere upstairs is fun, but the basement bar was just too much for us on a Saturday. It was standing room only and people were elbow to elbow, making it tough to get drinks and food between all the patrons to the tables. I felt awful for our server, who kept a smile on her face despite sweating and racing back and forth between the bar and tables.

I meet some friends over Christmas here when I came back home to Indiana.  I picked this place at random and my friends were a little worried that this place would be too trendy.  In the end, it was just an updated, modern version of southern comfort food.

Meal: II had the pork belly with collard greens.  I also had a few of the local brews, but I don't remember what they were.

Taste:  I feel awful for saying this.  I feel like what I am about to say is blasphemous; this is the best meal I have had in Indiana for a very, very long time.  The pork belly was perfect.  It was fatty and crunchy on the outside.  It was perfectly seasoned.  The collar greens (and I recommend asking for extra liquor) were the best I have ever had.  I grew up eating collard greens in the south and when I moved to the midwest, I stopped eating them because no one knew how to cook them in Indiana.  Every once in a while I will give a place a chance but it usually sucks.  But the collard greens were really the highlight of the night, outside of meeting up with old friends.  10 out of 10.

Value:  The portions were fair.  Not bad but not great.  But honestly, when a meal is so tremendously good, do portion sizes really matter?  I know I might have a conflicting Yelp review that says otherwise, but for 10-01, I will make the exception.  5 out of 5.

Service/Cleanliness:  I waited at the bar before my friends arrived.  The bartender was extremely friendly and attentive.  The waiter during the meal was pretty good too.  He offered up good suggestions and gave us honest feed back and had it not been for him, I may have never ordered the pork belly. 9 out of 10.

Atmosphere:  I likes the atmosphere a lot.  It was chill without coming off as to0 trendy or hispterish.  The bar was the perfect balance of liveliness and intimacy. My first fear is that this place would have a presumptuous atmosphere, but it didn't.  5 out of 5.

Overall:  When I go back to Indiana, this will be the first place I visit.  You can have your St. Elmo's, I take 10-01.   29 out of 30 points, 5 out of 5 stars.