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1991 — 2026 · 115 West Colfax Avenue
The house: Mark McDonnell — the Tippecanoe manager of the previous entry — closed on the building at 115 West Colfax Avenue on December 31, 1990, and opened LaSalle Grill on April 8, 1991, as the Tribune recorded in its closing account of March 4, 2026, and the Chamber's twenty-five-year profile had recorded at the quarter-century. In March 2021 he turned the house over to his daughter, Laurel Marnocha. It closed on February 25, 2026, after thirty-five years — the second of this record's two documented fine-dining institutions to close within seven weeks of the other, both of them McDonnell's.
The diamond count, printed as a conflict: LaSalle Grill's distinction was the AAA Four Diamond award, and its run is given four ways in print, each dated here rather than settled. The Tribune's 2026 account says twenty-seven years in a row. The house's own copy, carried on OpenTable, says the award came every year since 1996. Michiana Life's 2015 profile counted eighteen consecutive years. An older house description counted nineteen consecutive and called it "the longest run of any restaurant in Indiana." The counts were made in different years and the run, if continuous from 1996, would satisfy several of them in sequence; what no source in the record reached does is print the award's own year-by-year list. The claims stand as their carriers dated them.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune (4 March 2026) — the building's closing date of 31 December 1990; the opening of 8 April 1991; the Four Diamond run at twenty-seven years; the closing of 25 February 2026 after thirty-five years.
- South Bend Regional Chamber, twenty-five-years profile (2016) — the founding dates; the McDonnell course.
- LaSalle Grill house copy (OpenTable) — Four Diamond every year since 1996; the March 2021 handover to Laurel Marnocha.
- Michiana Life (2015) — eighteen consecutive Four Diamond years.
- LaSalle Grill, earlier house description — nineteen consecutive years, "the longest run of any restaurant in Indiana," as the house described itself.