The Lucca Grill, in downtown Bloomington at 116 E. Market St., is the first pick for the Pantagraph's new feature on restaurants and bars of the week. Lucca Grill is a locally owned Italian-American restaurant. It was founded in 1936 by the Baldini brothers, Fred and John, but is now owned by Tony Smith and John Koch.
 
While Lucca has a wide variety of food on the menu, it is best known for the A La Baldini pizza, named after its founders. This pizza is loaded with sausage, pepperoni, ham, mushrooms, onions, green peppers and pepperoncini.