There is not a single kosher restaurant in Bloomington. On top of that, IU doesn’t offer kosher food. Not even the previously reviewed Falafel’s is kosher. Students wanting to keep kosher have the following choices:
Certified-kosher foods at the market.
Although there’s no kosher aisle like there are in a lot of east coast supermarkets, there’s enough kosher food to live off of at the various Marsh, Kroger, Bloomingfoods, and O’Malia locations. There’ll be some kosher for Passover food available at the supermarkets for when the holiday comes, as well.
Hillel.
From their Website:
Every Tuesday and Wednesday night, from 5:30pm-7:00pm, Hillel sponsors a Kosher Cafe,” as well as a [free] Shabbat Dinner on Friday night. Both Kosher Cafe and Shabbat Dinner meals can be prepaid for the entire year with the purchase of a Discover Hillel Card. All food served at Hillel is strictly kosher. Hillel also offers a Kosher-for-Passover meal plan each Pesach.
There’s a kosher meal plan registration form if you want to join.
The Internet.
This is basically your last resort, though I’ve seen it work quite well. It’s not the option for me, personally.
I’ll be doing some more reporting on those who keep kosher around here, and how they go about it.
Ok here it goes on the Kosher food
heres some gems
Olive Market 10th and the bypass lots of Israeli canned goods and snack foods
Sahara Mart offers Sabra middle eastern kosher foods
the Largest Big Red liquors across from Smallwood apts
has a lot of Kosher Wines.
Marsh on east third near Beth Shalom has a lot of kosher meat both FRESH and frozen a few blinzes as well
Kroger near college mall has a shrinkin kosher supply of frozen chicken and dry goods
although it does not have kosher supervsion a vegan Cafe is located on the corner by the downtown courthouse
Thanks for giving this feedback, I’ll write about this stuff soon and give you a shout out