Places for Super Bowl Visitors to Eat & Drink.

I'm gonna pretend someone just hittin' town might actually read this....   Obviously there are hundreds of restaurants & bars in Indy, but I thought I'd mention a few of my favorites that are unique to the city, or at least the local region:   St. Elmo's Steakhouse downtown is a great place in the old steakhouse tradition-- elegant heavy old-boardroom decor, waiters in coats,  fine wine selection, etc.  It's great, but it ain't cheap.  I've never been to Harry & Izzy's next door, which is owned by the same folks and offers the same food but with a supposedly more relaxed ambiance.  Try the Shrimp Cocktail if you like your seafood cocktail sauce chocked full of horseradish-- it'll cure any sinus congestion you might have.  Eddie Merlot's, on 96th Street east of Keystone, is part of an upscale casual chain based in Ft. Wayne that serves exquisite steaks and other elegant dishes, and has a great bar that often has a piano player or jazz trio for entertainment.  On the other end of the price/ambiance spectrum is John's Famous Stews, 1146 Kentucky Avenue, a tavern-style eatery a short cab ride from downtown that has the best spicy goulash you'll ever eat!  Other dishes are more mundane (like Broasted Chicken) but everything is tasty and well-prepared. It is said that David Letterman goes there whenever he's in town, although I've never seen him there.  The Workingman's Friend, Belmont Avenue at Turner Street, is another dumpy-looking place that serves great burgers and sandwiches; no frills, just good food and cheap beer.  Weekday lunch hour draws a heavy business crowd, so you might expect to wait a bit to be seated during those times.  Finally, my just about favorite fast food restaurant of all time is Steak 'n' Shake, a chain with which you folks outside the Midwest might not be familiar. Oh, go ahead and laugh, you local prairie dwellers!  The Steakburger in all its incarnations is still (READ MY LIPS) the Best Burger Around, as far as I'm concerned, and SnS has enough other delicious menu items to keep you interested the whole year 'round.  There, oh foreign tourist, are a couple places to start.  Ya need more, just axe me!