Monthly Mob · Soup Mob
November Soup Mob
Saturday, November 7 at 11 AM Eastern
Coney Express · 3602 Grape Rd, Ste 13, Mishawaka, IN 46545
Official GastroMob event
THE ORIGINAL CHAPTER · MICHIANA
MICHIANA
GASTROMOB.
We nominate local places, vote, and show up hungry. Everybody pays their own way and tips normally. The calendar has our next gatherings, and the stories below show where we’ve been.
NEXT UP · NOVEMBER SOUP MOB
Official GastroMob eventSOUP’S ON AT
CONEY EXPRESS.
Coney Express · 3602 Grape Rd, Ste 13, Mishawaka, IN 46545
Mob week continues through November 14 at noon.
Coney Express earned 470 votes and 76% of the poll. Now it’s time to put some people behind those votes, pull up a chair, and eat some soup.
Bring a friend, come by yourself, or invite somebody who could use a reason to get out of the house. Come to the kickoff or visit during Mob week. GastroMob is free; everybody buys their own food and tips normally.
DECEMBER 2026 · DEALER’S CHOICE WINNER
Official GastroMob eventDECEMBER IS
MONTERREY.
Monterrey Mexican Bar & Grill won with 255 votes. Join us that weird week between Christmas and New Year’s for Mexican food, good company, and live music from Jon Hayes.
Tuesday, December 29 at 6 PM Eastern
507 E McKinley Ave, Mishawaka, IN 46545
Jon Hayes plays 6–8 PM at the kickoff.
Got a new coat for Christmas? Bring a clean, gently used winter coat if you’d like. We’ll work with Monterrey to get it to someone who needs it. Everybody is welcome, coat or no coat!
Mob week runs December 29 through January 4 at 7 PM Eastern. GastroMob is free; everyone pays for their own food and tip.
JANUARY 2027 · BACK TO OUR ROOTS
BACK TO
OUR ROOTS.
Steve N Lauren’s Kitchenette
Friday, January 15, 2027 at 6 PM Eastern
January takes us back to Steve N Lauren’s Kitchenette. Let’s see how things have changed for them, show them how things have changed for us, and share another meal together.
A little love for a local place, a table full of company, and a reason to start the year hungry. Come with a friend or come by yourself. Everyone pays their own way.
18TH YEAR · HELP 10 LOCAL FAMILIES
Shopping for Others 2026
Our 18th year helping local families at Christmas. Help us raise $6,500 for 10 families and gather needed supplies for the Robert L. Miller Sr. Veteran’s Center in South Bend.
Saturday, December 19, 2026 · 1 p.m. Eastern
Walmart in Mishawaka off Main Street
LET’S GO EAT
Upcoming Mobs & gatherings
Pick a date. Find your people. Pull up a chair.
GastroMob CALENDAR
November 2026
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All upcoming gatherings (5)
Community event · Holiday help · 18th year
Shopping for Others 2026
Saturday, December 19, 2026 · 1 p.m. Eastern
Walmart in Mishawaka off Main Street · Mishawaka, Indiana
Community event
Event details
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Monthly Mob · Dealer’s Choice
December GastroMob
Tuesday, December 29 at 6 PM Eastern
Monterrey Mexican Bar & Grill · 507 E McKinley Ave, Mishawaka, IN 46545
Official GastroMob event
Monthly Mob · Back to our roots
January Monthly Mob
Friday, January 15, 2027 at 6 PM Eastern
Steve N Lauren’s Kitchenette · 26230 Southport Drive, South Bend, IN 46628
Official GastroMob event
Community event · Save the date
Bacon Party 2027
Saturday, June 19, 1 to 5:45 PM Eastern
Riverfront Park South · Riverfront Park South, Niles, MI
Community event
Later monthly plans (11)
We plan to keep meeting monthly. These months have no confirmed date or venue yet.
- February 2027 · details to come
- March 2027 · details to come
- April 2027 · details to come
- May 2027 · details to come
- June 2027 · details to come
- July 2027 · details to come
- August 2027 · details to come
- September 2027 · details to come
- October 2027 · details to come
- November 2027 · details to come
- December 2027 · details to come
LOCAL PLACES WORTH FINDING
FIND THE MOM & POPS.
Find past nominees, poll winners, and places we’ve visited. Search by dish, restaurant, city, ZIP code, or food type.
OCTOBER MOB · WRAPPED OCTOBER 20, 2026
TAQUERIA
DON CHEPE
Thirty-six people made Taco Tuesday our biggest GastroMob kickoff yet. Shirts, family dinners, old friends, new faces. The whole point of this thing, sitting down to dinner together.
THE COUNT36 people
Biggest kickoff yet
Biggest kickoff yet
THE FOODTacos, tortas,
tamales & more
tamales & more
MOB WEEKOctober 13–20
Niles, Michigan
Niles, Michigan
The food was good, fast, and accurate. The Don Chepe crew kept a steady stream of orders moving, and their prepaid-meal board was the kind of quiet neighbor-helping-neighbor move that says a lot about a place. Helping someone eat while letting them keep their dignity deserves some love.
October’s Mob week has wrapped, but Don Chepe is still there when you’re hungry. Thanks to everyone who pulled up a chair, shared a picture, and put some love into a local place. Next month we trade tacos for soup at Coney Express.
OCTOBER 13, 2026 · TAQUERIA DON CHEPE · NILES
THE MOB IN PICTURES.
People, plates, and the place that brought us together. Open any photo to see the full picture.
Stories, photos & poll results
OCTOBER 17, 2026 · BANANA TREE CAFE
Chili for a cause.
Our cookoff benefiting the Robert L. Miller Sr. Veterans Center has its own place in the GastroMob story.
Cookoff recap & results →SEPTEMBER MOB · RECAP
470
VOTES
VOTES
76%
470 VOTES
470 VOTES
NOVEMBER 2026 · SOUP MOB WINNER
CONEY EXPRESS
WINS NOVEMBER.
Soup’s on. Coney Express ran away with 470 votes and 76% of the total. Saturday, November 7 at 11 AM Eastern at 3602 Grape Rd, Ste 13, Mishawaka, IN 46545. Mob week continues through November 14 at noon. South Bend Farmers Market Cafe finished second with 57 votes and 9%. See the winner’s GastroMob record. See the final poll.
REAL MOBS · REAL PEOPLE · REAL FOOD
THE PICTURES
TELL THE STORY.
Good food. Excellent company. Actual moments from restaurants the community chose and mobbed.
Browse the full GastroMob photo albumA GastroMob shirt, a mountain of cheese, and a pizza nearly as tall as its new helper. That is how you make a core memory.
Pizza, people, and the Freshieez Community Giving Tree in the background, which tells you plenty about the room we were in.
Charlie and the Mobbers. Shirts spotted, pizza handled, everybody doing exactly what we came to do.
Real people, full plates, questionable table banter. A perfectly good reason to leave the house.
The shirt got the selfie. The Giving Tree got the point across.
Tiny was 36 inches of perfectly reasonable pizza behavior, followed by ice cream because apparently the dairy situation was still not complete.
A packed room and a cheese pull that refused to quit. This is why pictures matter.
One long table, a room full of personalities, and breakfast doing its part to hold the whole thing together.
The shirts make us easy to spot. The people wearing them are what make the Mob worth finding.
A table full of GastroMob shirts, burgers, fries, and absolutely no attempt to look like a stock photo.
The patio became the dining room. People came, ate, talked, and kept the local place busy.
GastroMob shirt on, happy face, mission accomplished. Food is the excuse. People are the point.
THEY EARNED THE PLATE
GASTROMOB
DESTINATIONS
These are places the community nominated, voted for, and actually mobbed. No directory filler. No paid placement.
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