Dining

We asked some of Indy’s most accomplished sandwich makers to describe their dream sandwiches. We’ll have what they’re having.

A New Yorker turned Hoosier finds out if three businesses live up to their name.

These four takes on Spanish paella featuring shrimp, mussels, octopus, and more are well worth the wait.

There are some sandwiches that everybody swears by— the ones that draw lunchtime crowds and have stained the shirts of the best of us. But when Indianapolis Monthly set out to assemble the city’s top hoagies, melts, tortas, and their bread-encased brethren, we wanted more than a greatest hits list. We wanted to wrap our hands around the under-the-radar winners assembled behind deli counters, in tiny cafe kitchens, and on diner flat tops, too. So we ate our way through the city, chasing both the icons and the quiet standouts, and found a lineup that proves Indy knows its way around a great sandwich.

While hard to find throughout the US, two young business owners filled the chimney cake bakery void with the recent opening of Kürtőskalács near Purdue University.

Colorful shipping containers give Che Chori a dramatic makeover.

Local ice cream shop LiftOff Creamery has added a fourth location just east of downtown inside the iconic 1937 Sanitary Diner in Holy Cross....

Emilio Cento homes in on a new Zionsville spot for pasta, wine, and good spirits.

Cunningham Restaurant Group is replacing its Plainfield mall-side restaurant, Theo’s Italian, with a second take on its family-friendly spot for pizza, burgers, wings, and...

After decades in New York classrooms, Manuela Pizzi reconnects with her Indianapolis roots at Balena.