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- Glazed Yeast Doughnuts. Long’s Bakery. In 2020, Indianapolis rapper Tevin Studdard recorded a YouTube anthem to the sugar-sheathed Long’s doughnut that went viral.
- Cheeseburger. Workingman’s Friend. At this palace of cinderblock and Formica where blue collar meets white, they do not serve smashburgers, but instead burgers that are smashed—hold the pretense.
- Shrimp Cocktail. St. Elmo Steak House. There’s only one appetizer on the St. Elmo menu, but it’s the only one the legendary steakhouse needs. Pretty much every pro athlete, sports announcer, celebrity, or politician who’s passed through town has eaten (or at least tried to) a St. Elmo shrimp cocktail, and gone on to sing its incendiary praises.
- Corned Beef Sandwich. Shapiro’s Delicatessen. Ball your hands into fists. Put them together. This is the size of the corned beef sandwich at Shapiro’s. The fat-flecked meat is so unctuous, if you are not wearing Eau de Shapiro’s after housing this flavor bomb with notes of mustard seed and clove, you walked into the wrong place.
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IT COMES as no surprise when Hoosiers see Bluebeard, the small, farm-to-table eatery with the Kurt Vonnegut theme, appear on yet another best-restaurant list and featured on national media. The restaurant, alongside its James Beard Award–nominated chef Abbi Merriss, is celebrating its 10th year in 2022. After a decade on Virginia Avenue, even out-o...
IF YOU’VE BEENfilling up seats since 1902, you’re doing something right. If you’re getting nods from Forbes and the James Beard Foundation, you’re definitelydoing something right. And if the mention of your steakhouse name evokes all that’s legendary and iconic about a particular Midwestern city, you’re St. Elmo. The swanky downtown meat mecca—once...
EVERY MEALfeels like a special occasion when Vida’s crisp Lockerbie Square team is whisking out mini plates of Skuna Bay salmon in a bouquet of bitter greens, beef tartare topped with a raw quail egg, a puck of vanilla-flecked panna cotta jiggling under spiced cherries, and other dishes that would not look out of place in a museum of modern art. Un...
AFTER 11 YEARS,chef Ryan Nelson’s scratch-kitchen stronghold still ranks among Indy’s most important restaurants. Regulars have their favorites, gravitating toward the shaved Brussels sprout salad with sieved egg and smoked almonds that was an early adapter to the cruciferous trend, or the fried deviled eggs, a study in deconstructed decadence. One...
THERE WERE NOInstagram stars or celebrity food bloggers hustling for content when Steven Oakley, a veteran of Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, set up shop in an unassuming Greenbriar strip mall 20 years ago. Back then, there were barely even camera phones. But Oakley didn’t exactly send his bacon-wrapped apricots and shrimp corndogs out into obscurity...
Aug 23, 2021 · The 30 best restaurants in Indianapolis and the surrounding areas as selected by dining editor Julia Spalding and her team.
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