Food & Drinks

This new Indianapolis restaurant is remixing an old favorite with a sharp and innovative menu.

Indy’s favorite doughnut pop-up lands a place of its own.

Indy’s restaurant opening season is definitely picking up, with four new restaurants to try this week, two more with grand openings planned in the next few weeks, and nine more spots to look forward to in the months ahead.

Rockville Road’s status as a destination for international eats recently grew by one cheery and intriguing eatery, Tandoori King (7220 Rockville Rd., 317-240-8000), which is billing itself as an “Indo-Pak” restaurant offering both classics of Indian cuisine and some not-so-common Pakistani specialties. We stopped into this spacious storefront restaurant last week to try it out and were charmed by neat rows of napkins folded into glasses atop all of the tables around us. We also found ourselves intrigued by the little labels on the lunch buffet promising goat dishes and egg curry. But since it was dinner time, we put ourselves in the hands of our pleasantly gruff but no-nonsense waiter, who laid out a whole meal for us including a crisp iceberg and cucumber salad on the house and heavenly light and flaky garlic naan—some of the best we’d had in town.

Pork tacos from Restaurant Tallent, bread pudding from Keltie's, and a killer meatloaf sandwich.

Thursday’s half-price martini night at Mesh on Mass (725 Massachusetts Ave., 317-955-9600). Always jammed. Good value. Brown-sugar oatmeal pancakes with blueberries at Rosie’s Place (68 N. 9th St., Noblesville, 317-770-3322).  The Take You Back PB&J at

Also included in this week’s serving of Indy’s freshest dining news: shipping container siders, DIY bowls, and much more.

The five dishes you must try this week, including Tinker Street's pork-belly entree.

Rook's relaunch, Vida's grand-opening date, and Chris Baggott's upcoming ventures.

No. 4 - The Lockerbie neighborhood scored a major victory when Cunningham Restaurant Group opened this cutting-edge stunner in the former Amici’s Italian Restaurant over the winter.