Julia Spalding

When the food is this attractive, every bite is preceded by a moment of hesitation, if only to admire all those intentional squiggles of sauce and microgreen halos before the plate turns into chaos.

Georgia Reese’s pulls out of the north side, Three Carrots preps for a Fountain Square opening, and Tappers Arcade Bar goes for the high score.

From a pile of pork to a chocolate-chip breakfast item, this week’s Swoon List is here to wreck your diet.

What’s in chef Alan Sternberg’s seared Maple Leaf Farms duck breast dish?

It’s a gutsy move, serving fried chicken to a Hoosier audience raised on Hollyhock Hill and Gray Brothers Cafeteria, but this bird—Amish-raised on an Ohio farm before being brined and dredged in a proprietary dusting that gives the pieces a hint of delayed heat—might as well hail from a Hendricks County church pitch-in.

From a breakfast biscuit to a lemony gimlet, the yummiest things this week.

A few Indy bars are playing the classic tiki drink fairly straight up. Others? Not so much.

From a breakfast cereal–topped casserole at Spoke & Steele to late-night dessert at Peppy Grill, this week’s Swoon List satisfies round-the-clock cravings.

Irvington expands its restaurant repertoire with Cafe Carib, and R Bistro continues to feed us well.

Marrow is as complex as its own deep, rich vegetable curry. If this food needs some kind of user-friendly portmanteau, may we suggest globalicious?

Your guide to Indy’s 2016 James Beard Awards semifinalists.

Indy’s Ash and Elm Cider Co., which is opening the city’s first cider-exclusive production facility and tasting room this spring, might be the one good apple to unspoil the reputation of hard ciders.

Last fall, Hardesty (whose first Indy restaurant was H2O Sushi, let’s not forget) added a selection of raw-bar nibbles, like $3 Montauk oysters and bowls of scattered sushi, to the standard set.

Goose the Market sells the home version, maple sugar–cured, hickory-smoked, and rubbed with peppercorns and coriander.

“A lot of the menu choices had to do with the history of Fountain Square, which was predominantly settled by Germans, Italians, and people from northern Europe. This is where the cultures collided in this city. Literally, where I am standing right now.”