rack & helens bar and grill

...it is more bar than restaurant and is smokingestablishment and the smell of stale cigarettes permeated the air. we were told it would be a 20 mintue wait for a table, but as had trouble breathing shortly after entering we decide to leave.

great place. i agree with the post below me entitled "has it all"
my boyfriend and i wondered into new haven when the deck downtown had an hour and a half wait. he wanted mexican, i wanted anything but, and we agreed we'd drive the 7 ish miles to try rack & helen's. we must have clearly looked like newbies because we weren't sure if we were supposed to wait to be seated or just slide in a booth. when we did find a seat, the manager came over and said he heard it was our first time, suggested some great drinks, and even bought out first round. the food was really good and if people weresmokingin there, i didn't notice it. i thought you couldn't smoke anywhere in indiana anymore? regardless, we had a good time.

has it all!. this is the kind of place missing in most towns. not a same chain restaurant or a creepy local greasy spoon. this is great the food is awesome. the service attentive and friendly. the atmosphere nice too. thesmokingis not noticeable. keep it up rack & helen's!

nice facility, good service.. we arrived early afternoon for a saturday lunch. we were greated immediately and were seated in the spacious bar area. there only a few other patrons in the bar. there were five in our group with four of us ordering the pizza roll while the fifth member of our group ordered the stromboli. the portions were large and generous with high quality ingredients. our server, along with the apparent owner, ensured our glasses were always full. the facility was clean and tidy. the facility does allowsmokingwhich would be about the only downfall of the establishment. the facility did not have that "stale cigarette smoke" odor which is characteristic ofsmokingrestaurants but this was probably more a function of so few guests at the time of our visit. one fellow guest, a few tables away,did start to chain smoke cigarettes but she eventually left. overall, a nice facility with good food and good service. my only suggestion would be for management to bring the facility up to modern times and to ban smoking.

i don't like smoke. rack & helen's allowssmokingso i won't/don't frequent this establishment. when mayor mcdonald grows some balls to outlawsmokingin private places..............i'll probably frequent these non-smoking places when they become available.