Food & Drinks

The meringue, a classic French cookie, can be spun to look like candy corn, as Carrie Abbott of Newfangled Confections demonstrates here.

If her location was a leap of faith, her dishes are just as daring.

A Petite Chou eatery converts into a Cafe Patachou, and Revery opens in Greenwood.

Including the Wednesday special “Surf and Earth” combo from The Pantry in City Market.

Each item on the kids menu at Fall Creek Place’s cozy Shoefly Public House is named after a child in the owner’s family. There is even a selection of craft sodas to wash it all down.

The artsy environs at the Alexander hotel make Cerulean the perfect place to discuss Mark Rothko’s play Red, showing at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.

“Classics” include a host of homey breakfast dishes such as a Belgian waffle with plums and cocoa nibs or a Dutch baby with berries and creme fraiche.

The Garden Table in Broad Ripple nears an opening date, and Quills Coffee plans to open its first Indianapolis location this fall.

Including the bracing Chicago Cider from The Ball & Biscuit’s new brunch menu.

If you want to know where the real action is at Union 50, Cunningham Restaurant Group’s natty new spot for broad-shouldered American fare, look no further than the bustling pick-up window into the kitchen.

With this second Pizzology location, Neal Brown lifted the high-temp, wood-oven Neapolitan-style methodology from his Carmel flagship and set it down on Mass Ave.

“It almost sounds like Jeter and Peyton were sitting down at a candlelit dinner, and that really wasn’t the case.”

Including the bright, fresh tofu tacos from Upland Brewing Co.

Brunch restaurant Milktooth nears an opening date, and General American Donut Co. plans to serve lunch.

In a market crowded with pedigreed brewers, a place founded by three law-school students and their friends with a little homebrewing experience sounds like a recipe for Imperial Disaster. (Not actually an esoteric beer name. Yet.) But the owners of Black Acre in Irvington have had their day in court, and we’re ruling in their favor.