Always looking for good places to take the kids, thanks to a
recommendation from twitter, and since it has been on my list for years I
think, we decided to finally give Alibi’s a try. It always seemed more like a bar to me, but
they have made it a family friendly pub, and while it was mainly adults, there
were a few kids in there besides for ours.
They were having trivia night also which was kind of fun to listen in
on—even my son enjoyed some of the questions.
Anyway, I was intrigued by the fact that while it is your
standard bar food kind of place, they claim that 90% of the food is made
in-house and that they use local ingredients as much as possible. It’s a big menu though, and we frankly
weren’t sure what to get. Our server was
pretty honest and steered us away from certain things (Italian beef) and
directed us toward a few others. We
ended up getting the chicken ranch bacon club sandwich ($8.99) and a small
pizza with mushrooms and red onions (around $12).
The sandwich was the superior item and you know, it was
pretty good. I don’t know, maybe I just
don’t get that excited by a chicken sandwich or something, but as far as they
go, this is certainly one of the better ones.
The chicken breast is hand breaded and fried and was really very tender
and juicy which is always the challenge with this kind of sandwich. It was topped with Swiss cheese, several
strips of bacon and housemade ranch dressing (according to their menu, they
make all their dressings in house). The
bacon was a little soft, but had good flavor—you could really taste it even
with everything else going on and the ranch and cheese added a good amount of
gooiness so that it wasn’t dry at all.
We also got onion rings on the side for any up charge and they were not
bad, although they could have stood to be a little hotter. And I am guessing they are part of the 10% of
things not being made in house. They
were the batter-type though with a decent flavor.
The menu also says the pizza crust is all homemade as is the
sauce. We got the extra thin crust and I
liked that it was nice and crispy—not soggy at all. There was nothing about it that I had any
real problem with—there just wasn’t anything that made me get overly enthused
either. I guess I was hoping for a little more flavor from the crust, but it
seemed like most of the flavor of this pie came from the cheese which was just
kind of boring. Also, I am not sure why no pizza
place ever puts a decent amount of mushrooms on a pizza (what, because they are
so expensive or something? Give me a break), but this one was no
different. There were ample red onions,
although $1.50 per topping seemed a bit much for two veggie toppings.
It is definitely a neighborhood place, and I can see why
people would frequent it over similar chains.
Not only is it local, but the food is certainly better than those
places. People were pleasant, although
the service was a little slow. Our
server had way too many tables to really give everyone good service. Anyway, I would of course love to know if you
all have been here and had something you really like in case we decide to try
it again.
Alibi’s
7381 North
Shadeland Avenue
Indy 46250
317/841-7427
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