One Indiana restaurant received some high praise as the best hidden gem in the state. Have you ever eaten here before?

Indiana has no shortage of great restaurants that have been open for years. These restaurants have become staples in that area where people must go whenever they are in town. They are restaurants that can even become bucket-list places to dine at. Whether it be comfort food, burgers, fried chicken, seafood, Italian, Mexican, steakhouses, or any other type of restaurant, there are certain places that stand out among the rest. Out of all of the possibilities, it can be somewhat difficult to decide where you want to go to eat. Well, if you ever find yourself in the area, you might want to try the best hidden gem restaurant in the Hoosier State.

Some of the best food in America can be found where you least expect it. Sure, there are a lot of great chain restaurants that we all enjoy going to. But the really good stuff can be found tucked away behind unassuming storefronts, based in the middle of nowhere, or frequented only by lucky locals. LoveFood has tracked down these hole-in-the-wall hidden gems to find the best hidden gem restaurants in each state.

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Apparently, This is the Best Hidden Gem Restaurant in Indiana

According to LoveFood, if you want to find the best hidden gem restaurant in Indiana, you'll want to travel to Goshen in northern Indiana. That's where you'll find Maple Indiana Cuisine, the best hidden gem restaurant in the entire state.

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Here's what LoveFood said about Maple Indiana Cusine:

This little buffet restaurant packs a big punch when it comes to flavor. Offering a range of North Indian curries, samosas, biryanis, and desserts, Maple Indian Cuisine is a real local favorite. Since the food of North India has a big emphasis on vegetarianism, there’s a variety of delicious plant-based options, as well as plenty of succulent meat curries, too.

Now, I'll admit, I don't know much about Indian food. However, I do know a thing or two about buffets. If I am going to start dabbling in Indian cuisine, I can't think of a better way to do so than by dining at an Indian buffet. Have you ever eaten at Maple Indian Cuisine before? If so, is it worthy of being named the best hidden gem restaurant in Indiana?

Take a Delicious Journey Along These 21 Indiana Food Trails

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Indiana Foodways Alliance has the MOST food trails in America. Taste the very best that Indiana has to offer when it comes to breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between. Plan to visit some or all of these yummy stops all throughout the Hoosier state.

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See 11 Unique Attractions You'll Only Find in Indiana

The website, RoadsideAmerica.com, which keeps tabs on the more unique attractions each state has to offer, lists 75 attractions for Indiana. The following 11 are the ones I found to be the most interesting and hope to see in person with my own eyes one of these days.

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KEEP READING: 40 Real Indiana Towns with Quirky, Weird, and Funny Names

Outside the major cities, the Hoosier state is full of tiny little towns you've probably passed through on your way to one of those cities. Most of them are likely 100 to 150 years old, or older, and have been around far longer than the large metropolitan areas such as Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Evansville. Typically, they were started by early settlers who found their way to the state and decided to make it home. Eventually, others would join them, and a community was formed. Over time, as the surrounding areas grew, most of them were folded into those areas and governed by the nearest city or county's governing body officially making them "unincorporated," meaning they did not have their own formally organized municipal government.

A scroll through Wikipedia's long list of unincorporated communities in Indiana shows several of them have names that by today's standards would be considered weird, quirky, or just downright right funny. These are my 40 favorities.

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