Muncie Dining

A vegan baker’s go-to cookie recipe makes chocolate chip morsels so deliciously soft and dense they’ll never even make it to the cookie jar.

Chef-owner Matt Burns got a good lesson in regional sourcing at Westfield’s The Local Eatery & Pub—and helped head up the kitchen at nearby Vera Mae’s Bistro with wife Jessica—before the pair teamed on this ambitious but amiable spot for “French soul food.”