Dining

At Spoke & Steele, Chef Tyson Peterson puts his focus on “authentic food and drink sourced and influenced from the best of Indiana’s craft vendors and purveyors.”

Somehow Nelson’s unexpected fusion of high and low culture seems as natural as a dollop of sticky-sweet rib jam on a scoop of mac ’n’ cheese.

If you’re coming for dinner, don’t even think about passing up the opportunity to partake in the pickle-brined fried chicken.

Tinker Street’s mere 36 main dining-room seats almost guarantee that you will share elbow space with a stranger.

During Sunday brunch, gospel music hums in the background as dolled-up church ladies flock to the buffet for cream cheese–stuffed French toast and another piece of fried chicken.

The restaurant’s window-fringed dining room highlights slate-black tables, bench seating, wooden stools, and blown-up portraits of colorful dishes infused with produce from the onsite gardens.

Jenkins found a neighborhood niche by turning the back half of the restaurant into a grownups-only hangout with bartenders swinging bottles of Sparkle Donkey reposado over salt-rimmed Mason jars.

Fat Dan’s announces plans for a second location, and a new Elkhart-based pretzel shop opens inside Circle Centre.

Including a heavenly slice of Earl’s Court chocolate cake from Cake Bake Shop.

Ezra’s serves a dairy-free, processed sugar–free, GMO-free, gluten-free, organic, local, raw, “beegan” menu.

Nibbles like chimichurri sliders, chicken mole tamales, and fully loaded steak-and-egg chilaquiles bring to mind the freshest portable fare from a south-of-the-border street vendor.

An uncompromisingly seasonal menu with maritime influences and international accents, from South America to the Mediterranean.

Union 50 has become the coolest place to eat (and be seen eating) in town.

This place has enough rustic-modern style (and Smoking Goose meats) to woo committed carnivores, and plenty of finesse in the kitchen to make them crave clean living.

Though Bacon Legs & Turntables’s concept is trendy, its location claims a storied past. Here’s a peek at its many former lives.