Can you give 5 stars after a milk shake - YES!
Had dinner at the Downtowner - see separate positive review.
The folks at Hanover admissions lusted over the shakes and burgers at Hinkle's - the shakes were great but the hamburgers - cooked in front of you on the grill smelled and looked amazing.
Can you say hole in the wall - independent - special place - yep. Can't wait to return. Sliders at their very best.
If you are a fancy diner - skip it. If you love food and independents - get in there.
This place is a classic model for a "Greazy Spoon Diner" Â Place has been redone since a fire in late 90's. Â Always a place to eat after a night boozing it up. Â Hamburgers are like White Castle but better, Home Fries are really Hash Browns, if you're on a diet FORGET IT. Â Lots of grease all around. Â
There is an Annex area that sits people like a restaurant. Â I still go to the original area that has a dozen or so bar stools and a jukebox.
Hinkle Factoids: Cook was shot by a stray bullet once. Â One night I was eating and 3 guys came in & beat up a loser for pulling a knife on them...guy grabbed knife and loser threw his shoe @ Â em. Â Police came in and dispensed some Hinkle Justice...guy looked stupid w/one shoe on and one off.
Breakfasts are good as well, lots of food...as I said, really greasy but good. Â On a Saturday night be ready for the Hanover College kids to come in and have some fun. They'll sit down and vent, bs or talk about any topic you can imagine....I was one of them back in the day....everytime I return to Madison I grab a few Hinkle Burgers...I remember the phrase from my drunken Fraternity days, "Hinkle's....Who's driving???"
Everyone talks about how good the burgers are here so we had to check them out. Â Service was fast so people didn't have to wait long for a table. The place was packed. There were people eating at the outside tables and it wasn't a very warm day.
The burgers are like gourmet Krystal or White Castle burgers so if you like those restaurants then you will love this one. Â This is a great place for a quick bite.
Old school style burgers, patties sized a bit larger than a sllider, hot off the flat top. They come on a fluffy roll like bun, standard with pickle and grilled onion, and the onion tastes like it's reconstituted from dried, which I happen to like on a greasy burger. Hubby and I added tomato and lettuce. Two double cheese, an order of curly fries and a coke for him set us back $10, including tip. Happy tummies.
Review Source:Where else can you get a sex offender serving you awesome burgers and home fries in the middle of the night? Â Their shakes are pretty good too. Â Grab some change from the bottom of your roommate's couch and if you're a nice roommate, grab that drunk roommate and drag him to Hinkle's with you! Â
It's the perfect place to go and watch the townies and drunk college classmates wolf down some greasy fast food. Â If you're sober enough to make the drive, it's totally better than Taco Bell. Â Or you can roam from the bars and come down here. Â Food is good for a greasy spoon. Â Nothing spectacular but cheap and good.
My dad even likes it for a random bite to eat in the middle of the day when he would visit me in college.
I would consider trying to live in Madison if only for Hinkle's. Â Walking in you feel like you have stepped back a few decades (in a nice nostagia-y way, not an ick, this place is dirty way). Â This should be on the tour, or the best of list, for Hanover College. Â The milkshake list is pretty epic. Â It would take months to try them all. Â And, they are so filling and good, you really could just get a milkshake and call it a day. Â Granted, this would mean you couldn't get a slider- and that would be a tragedy.
Review Source:Hinkles, like most greasy spoons in small towns, is an institution. Since Hinkles is open late during the week and open all night on the weekends it is a place where many worlds come together: People getting food after a night of drinking, people working 3rds on break and college kids.
at night there are only 12 bar stools open and the cooks will serve up sliders cheese hash and milkshakes.
While I was going to college in the area, I always look forward to a late night snack
Hinckles has the potential to be the shit, especially if I lived anywhere near Madison, Indiana. But I don't. So all I will ever know it for was it's semi-over priced two eggs, white toast, hash browns and coffee. When I say "semi-overpriced" I mean a buck more than what I would have paid at my diner in New York. The eggs? Decent. The toast? It was toast. The hash browns? Delicious. The service? Friendly and attentive to my coffee cup. I had to pee at least five times before noon.
The prices for the dinner menu were cheaper than I could ever imagine. 99 cents for a hamburger?! Jesus. If I was in high school and lived in this town, we'd be all up in this place every weekend night at two in the morning. Maybe those prices and the friendly service will draw me back to Madison. But for now, it will just be a greasy spoon I found on the way to Los Angeles.
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