Reservations are de rigueur at Martha Hoover’s late-week, midcentury throwback bar that recalls supper clubs of yore while serving up a decidedly contemporary vibe. With just 16 seats, this darkly Read more [...]
Beholder
Price: $$$A former car-repair shop just outside Woodruff Place sets the stage for a daring piece of performance art featuring pig-skin noodles, granita-topped uni designed to melt on the tongue, grilled Read more [...]
Bluebeard
Price: $$$When it opened in 2012, Tom and Ed Battista’s charming restaurant led the charge in getting Indy’s dining scene on the national radar. A perennial nominee for the prestigious James Read more [...]
Cobblestone
Price: $$This Zionsville classic serves a range of pulled-together dishes, from a bright beet salad punctuated with Larkspur Bleu to a lavish tempura halibut with potato pavé. The brick-walled dining room Read more [...]
FoxGardin Family Kitchen
Price: $$$The original FoxGardin location in Fortville introduced diners to some of chef-owner Jacob Burgess’s signature moves: hand-cut steaks, gourmet burgers, homemade pies, and other inspired comfort foods. This lively follow-up Read more [...]
Meridian Restaurant & Bar
Price: $$$This luxe lodge is known for dishes both hearty and elaborate—duck-leg confit, vegetable roulade, fried oysters, boar Bolognese, smoked corn purée—delivered with flourish by a crisp staff in white shirts Read more [...]
Oakleys Bistro
Price: $$$The meticulously plated fare here hails from a culinary era when sprigs of herbs and puddles of purées and gastriques provided the flavor. Menu descriptions give clues as to what Read more [...]
Provision
Price: $$$Part locally sourced chophouse, part seasonal kitchen, this restaurant’s judicious menu ranges from dry-aged and prime cuts to fusion-inspired seafood dishes, colorful salads, and perhaps the most decadent tasting menu Read more [...]
Spoke & Steele
Price: $$$A few of this splashy lobby-bar bistro’s fashion-forward touches have become downtown traditions: enjoying a romantic supper in a sexy, curved leather booth, for instance, or filming a tableside bartender Read more [...]
Tinker Street
Price: $$$Chef Braedon Kellner gets risky with his daily changing lineup of painstakingly constructed dishes and gilded Midwestern standards that have ranged from squash noodle pad thai to a lamb loin Read more [...]