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Foodie: Tawana Gulley Of Healthy Soul
“IT TOOK me 40 years to find my voice and to find my purpose,” Tawana Gulley says. The founder of AfroAsian restaurant Healthy Soul had a full career with the Veterans Administration before a health...
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The Feed: New Carmel Restaurants, Sad Vegan Closure, Craft Distilling Milestone
The Mash House at West Fork Whiskey, one of Indy’s craft distilleries. Credit: Tony Valainis/Indianapolis Monthly Can you believe it’s been over a decade since Indiana allowed craft spirit businesses...
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Review: Nicole-Taylor’s Pasta + Market + Backroom Eatery
Nicole Taylor’s Pasta + Market + Backroom Eatery ERIN KEM’S culinary aesthetic is well-known to diners who have followed her moves from R Bistro, to Cannon Ball Brewing Company, to Scarlet Lane Brewing...
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New in Town: Hey Now Pizza
BALL PARK PIZZA OWNERS Kevin and Kathy Flaherty “were like my second mom and dad,” Nick Pastrick says. He worked at the pizzeria from his early teens to his mid-20s, then moved on to spots like Goose...
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Cheers: Spirit of Secrecy
YOU WON’T FIND an address or phone number for The Barrel Room online. Instead, there’s a reservation page that assures you a mysterious stranger will contact you with logistical details after your...
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The Feed: Southside Chain Restaurant Boom, Downtown Favorite’s Closure
Gallery Pastry Bar. Credit: Tony Valainis/Indianapolis Monthly It’s lights out for Gallery Pastry Bar. The Star was the first to report that the downtown outpost of the Gallery family of restaurants...
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The Feed: Iconic Bloomington Pizza Shop Shutters
SoChatti’s Matt Rubin. Credit: Tony Valainis/Indianapolis Monthly That sound you’re hearing is every IU alums’ group chat exploding. Cafe Pizzaria, a Bloomington pie and breadstick staple, abruptly...
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Best Restaurants 2024: 9th Street Bistro
GIVEN HOW in-demand the seats are at this Noblesville seasonal innovator, one might think owners Samir and Rachel Firestone Mohammad want to restrict their audience to their regulars on the far north...
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Taste Test: Best of the Wurst
(From Left to Right) Smoking Goose Although the jumbo one-pounder Andouille loops are a perennially popular choice, the Caraway & (Daredevil Brewing) Kölsch Bratwurst takes center stage this time...
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Best Restaurants 2024: Amara
THIS WEST 86th Street spot in Vinita Singh’s growing portfolio of elegant Indian restaurants recently added a buffet at lunch and dinner, but you should stick to her menu of specialties when you can....
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Best Restaurants 2024: Miss Congeniality
Anthony’s Chophouse Anthony’s Chophouse Service is attentive to a fault at this fine dining destination, but the level of observation means you’ll never need a glass refilled or a napkin folded. 201 W....
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Best Restaurants 2024: Beholder
IT’S TRUE that the moody dining room of chef/owner Jonathan Brooks’ fine dining destination is a date night hit, with tables small enough for footsie and cozy booths along the side. But the prime...
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Best Restaurants 2024: Bluebeard
A CHEF shuffle for the first time in the 12-year-history of this Best Restaurants standby concerned us. Could the award-winning restaurant stay the course without its longtime kitchen lead?...
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Swoon: Stick Figure
CORN DOGS AS the most important meal of the day? That’s the plan at AJ Feeney-Ruiz’s mobile kitchen, Books Bourbon & Bacon. Feeney-Ruiz begins with a custom bourbon and maple breakfast sausage...
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Best Restaurants 2024: Tinker Street
IT’S RARE to find fine dining this unfussy or loose, but Tinker Street manages to thread that needle with an exacting kitchen and deceptively casual dining room service. A lot of this can be...
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Best Restaurants 2024: Bodhi
THERE’S A reason Taelor Carmine’s stylish Thai restaurant is always bustling with happy customers. It’s because, while Indy’s Thai food scene is richer and more diverse than ever, this Mass Ave...
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The Feed: New Restaurant Inspection Tool, Grocery Store Struggles, St. Elmo...
The bar at St. Elmo Steak House. Credit: Tony Valainis/Indianapolis Monthly Carmel folks have some new food for thought. Hamilton County’s health department has launched a new tool for diners, it...
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Best Restaurants 2024: Borage
JOSH KLINE AND ZOË TAYLOR’S long-awaited all-day cafe, dinner spot, and market took years longer to open than they expected when they chose its Speedway site. Some even worried that the couple in...
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Best Restaurants 2024: Cafe Babette
THERE ARE several excellent production bakeries in Indianapolis that we’d suggest you visit for a reliable, expected box of pastries. But that’s not Babette. At this Garfield Park bakery (and more),...
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Best Restaurants 2024: All The Buzz
Bovaconti Coffee Amberson Coffee & Grocer An abandoned 1930s gas station transformed into a cozy coffee shop, Amberson’s thoughtful roasts and in-house baking make it a destination. Its focus on...
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