Tag: Phil Schmidt's

• August 18, 2021

  George Diamond’s: A Northwest Indiana Classic

  

              In 1924, Peter Levant’s opened what was one of Whiting’s famous “perch palaces,” a place that served freshly caught perch right from Lake Michigan. They also advertised such menu items as steak, chicken, and, of course, this being The Region, frog legs—mostly likely from nearby Lake George.             Indeed, frog legs were so in…