The Charlie Horse Family

Charlie's Place is a women-owned bar and restaurant serving craft cocktails, beer, wine and a scratch kitchen with dinner and weekend brunch. The menu runs to upscale food options, and weekend nights bring DJs on Fridays and Saturdays, with live music at other times.

The kitchen also does boxed lunches, group lunches, event catering and mobile bar service. Groups of 15 or more should call ahead to reserve, and the heated patio stays open all winter for parties of 20 or more, with a 20% gratuity added for large parties. The place is dog-friendly, and dogs get complimentary chicken bites. It sits at 4201 N. Wells Street in Fort Wayne.