The building is a 3 story brick with a full basement, built in 1890 and home to the J.G. DePrez Co. a family owned hardware store for years. Like many small town stores, it fell prey to shopping malls and interstate highways allowing easy access to those big city malls. The hardware store closed decades ago.
Pudders is in the white building on the left. Note the DePrez name on the brick in the upper right
Now a portion of the first floor houses a delightful restaurant and, in the back a separate bar room. Named Pudders, this business is located on the Public Square of Shelbyville, a small town in central Indiana. It has been in business since 2019, and has enjoyed a strong local following.
Full bar serving restaurant
Fresh made chips smothered with good stuff
Vegetable Wrap and fries. Wrap is loaded!
Fresh cod “Fish and Chips” with cole slaw
Now that the pandemic is slowing down, Pudders has live music each weekend and periodic trivia nights. Their menu offers an assortment of burgers, wraps, salads, wings and tons of appetizers. We had a small group of family members together for a late afternoon meal. Every meal was delicious and portion sizes were very generous. It is always nice to see older buildings in small towns occupied with locally owned businesses.
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Love the name “Pudders” I wonder how that name came to be?
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It is a fun name. When we go back (which I am sure we will at some time) I’ll ask how the name came to be. Good question Suzette!
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I love the name. Thanks.
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I love seeing old buildings repurposed! I’m plotting to get back into that area this year so I’ll be sure to add this to my list.
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You will not be disappointed. Thanks for the visit and nice comment.
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You’re welcome! I always look forward to your posts because I often find ideas for my next jaunt into Indiana. 🚘
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Aww… Thank you! Glad we can help with some of your future travel itineraries.
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You’re welcome! I appreciate the inspiration. Have a great Saturday!
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Looks like good fare. If you take the bottom off, and flatten out the top, the building looks like our old office building downtown which was built in 1894.
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Those 1890’s era buildings were built to last, that’s for sure. Thanks, Tim.
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They were built to last. And they can be a pain to keep up. They are not energy efficient, either. Speaking of energy efficiency, we’ve been through a full billing cycle since I replace all 144 fouresnce light fixtures in our new office building with LED fixtures. Power consumption was 80% lower than the previous billing cycle.
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Our family had lots and lots of buildings around. Oh, what a pain to keep up, especially roofs. And an 80% drop in power use is remarkable. Have you already paid for the LED’s?
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It will take about 21 months to break even at the current savings. I had calculated 24 months.
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That is a really quick break even.
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The max wattage when the fixtures were florescent was 17,280 (120 watts/fixture). The max wattage with the LED fixtures set at 25 watts each is 3,300. That is a 5.24 times reduction in max wattage.
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That is a good ad for LED fixtures. Our RV has all LED lights, both energy efficient and cool. Our previous trailer had incandescent lights, and were they battery drainers and so dang hot!
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One of our new evaluators said that a lot of buildings rely on the heat from incandescent bulbs to assist with heating the building envelope. Changing to LED bulbs messes up the heating and pipes in the roofs can end up freezing. I hadn’t thought about that kind of issue. Not an issue in our building.
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Yummy
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Oh it was! And they do their best to local source as much as they can.
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Those all look really good, particularly the veggie wrap and fries.
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The wraps are good, and they have a wide variety. Thanks, Sheree
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You’re very welcome
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My favorite is Beans in the Belfry in Brunswick MD. It was a church and has been upgraded to an eclectic coffee house. http://www.beansinthebelfry.com/
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What a good looking place! (Went to the website). What a great repurposing of the church edifice.
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So nice to see the building repurposed instead of demolished. Our downtown has some solid old buildings from that era – the HS design classes always have to do a tour and then choose one to do a report on… our historical building society is very active and makes sure that the buildings are kept up…
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So great that the HS design class is partnered with the Historical society to learn about the old architecture. Bravo!
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Your post captures well why I’ve enjoyed the retirement hobby of visiting bars and breweries and blogging about them. I will add Pudders to the list now that we are traveling again.
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Glad we could add a location for your list of potential bars/pubs. You’ll like this one.
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The food looks delicious and what a great idea of renovating a old hardware store
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Thank you. Re-purposing solid old buildings is a good idea for sure.
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