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SOUTH BEND — After what he describes as the hardest year in his three decades of business, the owner of LaSalle Grill is turning the restaurant over to his daughter. Mark McDonnell, the founder of LaSalle Hospitality Group, which oversees fine-dining restaurant LaSalle Grill and its catering services, announced Tuesday that he will no longer be the majority owner of the business, which is an institution in the South Bend dining scene. His daughter, Laurel Marnocha, has taken over. The 70-year-old restaurateur said he has been contemplating taking a step back for years, noting that his ag...

It had been two and a half months since Sean Kelley had worked in a kitchen. The former Temper Grille owner and chef was feeling beaten down from a busy night and from months of hearing from angry customers who spewed hateful comments about his decision to close Temper last December. Near the end of dinner service, he stepped out of the kitchen and on his way back, diners started to stand and clap. Kelley got a standing ovation. “I met a lot of people over 10 years, a lot of friends,” he said Wednesday. “The people that were here last night were showing some love, and that was ...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

SOUTH BEND — Sen. Mike Braun held a roundtable talk with South Bend area restaurants Thursday to hear their concerns about reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic. But they were looking

During his years of travel, Joseph Luten said he was on a mission to find what connects humans. “I was looking for that human trait, that gene that just connected everyone, and honestly, everywhere I went the common denominator was coffee,” said Luten. “... Coffee was the center of social engagement.” Eventually, Luten’s travels took him to Ethiopia where he met his wife, Afomia, and dug even deeper roots in understanding different taste profiles of the beverage. Luten also noticed an issue of child homelessness in the east African country, so with the encouragement o...