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Franklin’s historic first hospital was reborn as a breakfast and lunch hot spot in 2018, when co-owners and cousins Amy Richardson and Stephanie Northern opened their bakery and cafe just steps from the city’s historic courthouse. With a Brooklyn-cool staff (many are students at nearby Franklin College) but Midwestern friendliness and prices, it’s easy to see why the restaurant attracts Read more...
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The fairytale continues at Gwendolyn Rogers’s second tribute to layered cakes and buttercream icing, a pristine Carmel expansion dripping with chandeliers. There are hints of the twinkly, cottage-like Broad Ripple original in the white-on-white-on-white decor, but Cake Bake 2.0 is polished to a brilliance, and the patisserie menu has expanded to include delicate fare, like the esteemed Chicken Velvet soup, Read more...
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Owner and baker Clarissa Morley got customers so hooked on her scratch pies and galettes at local farmers markets the last few years that when she opened her brick-and-mortar dream in late 2018, business came so swiftly she had to double her pie production within two months. A lot of credit goes to the perfectly flaky and just-right-amount-of-richness crusts that Read more...
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This City Market staple has been pumping out fresh-made baked goods for a decade. While its menu is always changing, you can count on a few standards. Read more...
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Which is more comforting: hearty breakfast and lunch classics, like brown-sugar oatmeal pancakes and grilled-cheese sandwiches, or a cozy, feel-good vibe? There’s plenty of both here. The all-day breakfast menu offers a terrific riff on the classic eggs Benedict—a split biscuit with poached eggs and shaved ham covered in sausage gravy and cheese. Breakfast and lunch daily. Read more...




