Labor Pains
THERE’S A LINE OUT THE DOOR every morning at the Starbucks at 430 Massachusetts Ave., and even more people queue up every day at its to-go window. These customers, whether they know it or not, are...
View ArticleSwoon: Safe Passage
AFTER CHEFS Erin Kem and Logan McMahan took over Nicole-Taylor’s Pasta + Market + Backroom Eatery in 2023, they slowly started to transform the venerable spot. Its biggest change will manifest this...
View ArticleCommon Grounds
IT’S AROUND 8 p.m. on a Sunday, long after most coffeehouses in the city have turned their chairs over their tables and swept the floors. At this late hour, even the most ardent coffee fans have...
View ArticleThe Feed: Downtown Dinner Theater, Chocolate Company Shutters, Bee Coffee Sold
Newfangled Confections owner Carrie Abbott and her famous Frittle. Dinner and a show is coming to the Murat Shrine Center. As the IBJ notes, the south half of the distinctive building at Michigan...
View ArticleFirst Bite: A Joyful Noise
AFTER YEARS OF POP-UPS and having to use a shared space for their business, husband-and-wife restaurateurs Tom Nguyen and Rachel Burnett dreamed of a standalone storefront. After an ambitious...
View ArticleReview: Chipping In
SANDWICHES, SALADS, AND HEARTY SOUPS often popped up on the menu at Tilly’s Tea Room, Sharon Moore’s longstanding cafe inside The Fashion Mall’s Saks Fifth Avenue. So when a real estate agent offered...
View ArticleAgainst The Tide
THE IRONY that his sustainability-focused business Amberson Coffee & Grocer operates from inside a former gas station isn’t lost on founder Hugo Cano. On a list of environmentally unfriendly...
View ArticleMaking Space
“I’VE ALWAYS WANTED to run a shop that was considered a third space,” Skyler Balta says. All her life, the 26-year-old says, she had obsessed over creating an informal social space where people can...
View ArticleFoodie: The Lasagna Lady
STEPHANIE DAILY’S childhood as an Indy food scion is one of the reasons she vowed she’d never open a restaurant. Her grandparents owned Dunham’s Prime Time, a Carmel prime rib and seafood hot spot for...
View ArticleThe Feed: Benyue Closes, Iozzo’s On Jefferson Opens, Pasto Italiano Changes...
The view from Astrea, the rooftop bar at the InterContinental Hotel. Credit: Eve Batey Two new high-end restaurants just opened right off Monument Circle. You likely saw the deluge of coverage about...
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