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Review: Beholder
When you bite into Beholder’s “crispy beef tongue pancake,” you really have to focus on what you are tasting. All at once, you’re hit with the meat’s malty sizzle against the pancake’s stealthy...
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Review: Anthony’s Chophouse
“How are your steaks?” “Are you enjoying your steaks?” “Did your steaks come out exactly as you wanted them this evening?” We had barely sliced into dinner, and no fewer than four immaculately...
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Review: Nesso Coastal Italia
Whatever you think of tea-smoked duck breast stacked like masonry, or aggressively deconstructed Key lime pie, or the novelty of dining inside an Airstream-sized “nest” made of bent birch wood—you...
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Review: Field Brewing
Remember when opening a restaurant inside a grungy little remodel on an un-fancy side of town was a foreign concept? Now, everyone’s doing it, and a gleaming new arrival like Field Brewing, built from...
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Review: Daredevil Hall
If Indy’s craft-beer movement were a person, born during the mid-’90s blitz of mash tanks and growler refills and International Bitterness Units, it would have its own apartment by now—maybe some nice...
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Review: King Dough
The city comes back to life this time of the year, when downtown’s sidewalk tables are in full bloom and patio seating spreads like kudzu across the suburbs. Summer’s early adopters have already taken...
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Review: Caffè Buondì
A meringue of foamed milk makes a cute little nest for the crushed nuts that top Caffè Buondì’s wee pistachio cappuccino. Beneath it, steamed milk and a barky shot of Lavazza espresso float over...
View ArticleMini Review: 10th Street Diner
With its funky modernized facades, updated corner pubs, and new public art, once-neglected East 10th Street is showing signs of an urban renaissance. The culinary options in this relative food desert...
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Review: RFD Franklin
Shortly before the audience stood to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Historic Artcraft Theatre’s early-summer screening of Grease in downtown Franklin, master of ceremonies Rob Shilts gave a...
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Review: The Missing Brick
Some people take their pizza seriously, and some take their pizza too seriously. The guardians of authentic Neapolitan pizza, for example, insist that the wood-fired pies of Naples begin with a...
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Review: Juniper On Main
The wood-paneled floor creaks and sags as you walk across the dining room of 2-month-old Juniper on Main, a quirky reminder that you are not in new Carmel anymore. The refurbished 98-seater (46 inside...
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Review: Baby’s
It was a tough act to follow, but Baby’s exploded onto Indy’s dining scene like a glitter bomb, aggressively fresh-faced and ballerina-colored in a certifiably artsy pocket of Herron-Morton. Focused...
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Review: Strange Bird
Strange Bird bartenders mix cocktails with surgical precision.Tony Valainis The bristled head of a mounted wild boar watches over the bottles at Irvington’s new tiki-leaning watering hole, Strange...
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Review: 101 Beer Kitchen
(Editor’s note: This review took place prior to the Stay-At-Home order by Governor Holcomb to combat the spread of COVID-19. 101 Beer Kitchen remains open to takeout and delivery orders placed online.)...
View ArticleMini Review: Bird & Cleaver
Despite its backdrop of stark white walls with blond wood accents, Bird & Cleaver doesn’t feel minimalist. The casual two-story restaurant in Fort Wayne’s historic Wells Street corridor has a homey...
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Review: Bae Latin Food
Four days. That’s how long Bae Latin Food functioned as a normal, pre-pandemic restaurant—the kind of spiffy enterprise its owners, childhood friends who grew up in the same apartment building in...
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Turchetti’s Triple P Does Not Disappoint
Named the unanimous winner of the first round and a “porkestra” by the judges on Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games, this piled-high homage to the classic Hoosier sandwich at Turchetti’s Salumeria...
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Hoss Bar & Grill Is Serving Up Homestyle Favorites In Fishers
Photo by Tony Valainis Though he never met his grandfather, Eddie Sahm grew up hearing stories about the great William S. Sahm. Friends called him Hoss because he was the spitting image of Hoss...
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Detroit-Style Pizza Joint Futuro Is Living On The Edge
There isn’t a lot of space to wander around inside Holy Cross pizza shop Futuro. Not that this matters at the moment. A spiffy red-tiled counter greets you at the entrance, and in lieu of tables and...
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Carmel’s Main Street Is Getting A High-End Sushi Addition
Sesame seed–coated salmon laid over a bed of forbidden rice. The owners of Monterey Coastal Cuisine spared no bell nor whistle in designing this sexy addition to Carmel’s Main Street. At the entrance...
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