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Though its dishes change with the micro seasons, the on-site restaurant for Zionsville’s picturesque dairy farm always delivers a rustic opulence that plays into the bucolic theme. Chef Jon Warner now oversees a kitchen that has turned out dishes like a wintry duck breast with wild mushrooms, turnips, and apples under the twinkling rafters of a restored barn. Other highlights Read more...
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This neighborhood go-to’s menu offers traditional comfort foods, such as beef brisket slow-roasted in a Guinness stout sauce and served with green broccolini and mashed potatoes, as well as dishes with traditional Southern and Caribbean influences, including Japanese blackened shrimp with coconut grits. Read more...
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Old-town Carmel has grown up around Kevin Rider’s warm, bookish restaurant housed in a renovated Carnegie library (circa 1913). Though pork chops and steaks headline the entrées, the menu continues to evolve. Most intriguing is the chapter on comfort food. Homemade potpies place a delicate puff pastry atop rich, well-seasoned stew. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Read more...
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A sprawling menu is the highlight of this mini-chain with a rustic backwoods vibe. Steaks share the table with seafood, pastas, and sandwiches as elaborate as a prime-rib French dip. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Read more...
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A Fletcher Place bar and restaurant in the 1920s-era, glazed terra-cotta Virginia Avenue State Bank building, Repeal is serious about its cocktails. Several of them incorporate spirits from the attached distillery, 12.05, stirred and shaken with fresh-squeezed juices and other trendy back-bar mixers. The menu focuses on gussied-up bar standards like the Szechuan Pork Burger, wrapped inside an egg and Read more...
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Here, reclaimed-wood walls and industrial light fixtures register as more stylish than divey, and food is prettily plated, but the broader point about informality holds true. We’re especially big fans of the steak Deburgo, two tender medallions garnished with tufts of garlicky herbed butter. Starters are made for sharing on your next girls’ night out, particularly BLT deviled eggs with Read more...
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With its roster of 80-plus sharable dishes, this lively Carmel City Center favorite is no place for the indecisive (or kids— patrons must be at least 21). A good rule is to order two or three items per person over the course of a full meal. The crock of rich, slightly spicy corn crème brûlée is now justifiably legendary, but Read more...
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The menu at this spiffy addition to the far-west dining scene covers the gamut, from steakhouse standards to fast-casual innovations such as pan-seared chicken covered in rock shrimp. The wedge salad adds pecans to the mix, and the French onion soup is sweet under its three-cheese crust. Novelty martinis like the creamy-orange Dreamsicle, are cloyingly playful. Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. Read more...
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At this luxe, relaxed restaurant inside the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, a glowing wall of alcohol separates the dining room from the bar, and deep, all-seasons sofas made for lounging sit on the sidewalk-side patio. Art-directed cocktails, like the Prickly Pear Marg and the Peppered Paloma, elevate after-work drinks, and a simple upscale-casual menu focuses on chopped salads and basic dishes Read more...
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The circular restaurant sitting atop downtown’s PNC building affords a stunning 360-degree view of the city as it spins in a slow full rotation over the course of a nice three-course meal. That skyline eye candy—and not the basic high-end hotel food along the lines of herb-crusted prime rib and tea-smoked duck breast—has made this romantic perch 22 stories up Read more...