BRING AN APPETITE There is an up and coming food truck that will serve a 25 patty smashburger if you ask for it. Two Farmers Burgers and Beignets is out of Mt. Carmel, but they vend everywhere from Fairfield and Olney to Albion and more – attracting folks from miles around!
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here are SO many GREAT places to eat in our region of the state. While we don’t have the space to mention them all, we do have a few fanfavorites broken up into categories. QUICK BITES We’ll start in Waterloo, home of Shorty’s Smokehouse. While they have your typical menu Smokehouse options like pulled pork and ribs, their new brisket gyro and brisket Philly have folks raving! We’ll move to our Central Region, where Kahuna’s Burgers in Greenville offers up an interesting take on the traditional hamburger. The Sunset Burger comes complete with sweet chili cream cheese and grilled pineapple – whoever thought that burger up needs an award! In Carmi, there’s a long-time staple in the community complete with carhop service. Yesterday’s Drive-In is perfect for a trip back in
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time to enjoy an old-fashioned cheeseburger and onion rings, and for those short on cash five bucks will get you five cheeseburgers! SIT & ENJOY If dining in is more your speed, here are a few places where the food is definitely worth waiting for. If you’re travelling along I-70 through our region – definitely exit around Pocahontas and experience Nuby’s Steakhouse. Steakhouse If you have never had a horseshoe, it comes HIGHLY recommended, and you can choose hamburger or a pork tenderloin to be covered with fries and cheese sauce! For a place where the cocktails are perhaps even more important than the food, visit Jovalou in downtown Fairfield. Jovalou has well over thirty cocktails available, as well as beer – and with things like maple pecan sweet potato fries ▶ Food
