Scholars Inn Bakehouse & Café — Café / Bakery, Bloomington
Scholars Inn Bakehouse has served the Indiana University corridor as the morning institution for thirty years. The café where dissertations were written, tenure cases were argued, and the Bloomington intellectual community's daily conversations have happened over coffee and pastry.
The bakery program produces the sourdough and pastries that the IU community has built its morning rituals around. Made with the Indiana grains and the artisan baking standards that the Bloomington food culture demands.
The coffee is sourced from roasters who take provenance seriously. The single-origin approach applied to the campus-adjacent café that the intellectual community would hold to its sourcing standards anyway.
The College Avenue location puts the Bakehouse on the path between campus and downtown. The natural morning stop for the IU community that has made it irreplaceable.
Best Occasion: Perfect for Solo Dining
Artisan sourdough, serious coffee, and the Bloomington intellectual community at adjacent tables. Solo dining in the IU corridor's most characterful café.
Best Occasion: Works for First Dates
The bakehouse morning date. Sourdough, coffee, and the IU intellectual community's daily energy.