Best Of Indy

Do it for the ’gram.

Everything from The Status Plant to the perfect white shirt.

Local celebrities share their favorite activities, products, and eateries from Indy for Best of Indy 2015.

A week's worth of Carlos Salazar's most innovative dishes from Rook.

Go wild.

The year's best in physical and mental self-care.

To experience some speakeasy decadence (and that famous shrimp cocktail), climb the stairs to St. Elmo Steak House’s second-story 1933 Lounge (127 S. Illinois St., 635-0636, stelmos.com) > Sazeracs and Chartreuse Swizzles are among the classic pours at Ball and Biscuit (331 Massachusetts Ave., 636-0539, ballandbiscuit.com), paired with Chef Brad Gates’s small plates > Vodka drinkers flock to Tini (717 Massachusetts Ave., 384-1313).

Gourmet ice cream. Barrel-aged coffee. A week's worth of dishes from Rook. Here, our list of the food and drink that made this city great this year.

Mixing a fine pre-Prohibition cocktail takes work, sending the vested bartenders at The Libertine into a dance of controlled fury. Belly up and behold the routine: demolishing ice, scaling the wall of cubbies to reach a bottle of Fernet-Branca, whipping liqueur from jigger to glass, carving a wispy orange rind—all while keeping their ties clean. Finally, something to make us look up from our iPhones. 38 E. Washington St., 631-3333

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