Food & Drinks

Including a feta-topped lamb burger from The Pantry by Brad Gates.

Best Buffets of the city: India Garden, El Puerto De San Blas, Thai Taste, Barcelona Tapas, and Judge’s Bar-B-Que.

If one of the $5 froufrou cocktails at Palomino doesn’t immediately take the edge off of your day, you probably just need to get some food in your stomach.

For one, turn those little white boxes of take-home Chinese rice languishing in the back of the refrigerator into a comforting yet elegant dessert.

Wine advice from Trad Ireland at Fleming’s, Late Harvest Kitchen’s Ryan Nelson, and Denis Lynch at Vine & Table Gourmet Market.

Visit the Alexander hotel’s stunning Cerulean restaurant during its quiet lunch run, when Caleb France’s molecular gastronomy is pared down to bento-box proportions.

Including the vegan fish and chips at Broad Ripple Brewpub.

Sunday marked yet another Dig IN festival in White River State Park.

The kitchen churns out macaroni and cheese from scratch, smothered pork chops, boiled cabbage, banana pudding, and hunks of iced cake. There’s even Kool-Aid to wash it all down.

Maxine’s standard down-home recipe begins with peaches cooked with butter, sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla. That and three more takes on the treat here.

Szechwan Garden offers a daily taste of dim sum, the midday snacks popular from Shanghai to Brooklyn.

Including the luscious filet mignon soaked in the richest bordelaise and propped up on roasted green onions over a mound of truffled mashed potatoes at The Butcher Shoppe Bar & Grill in Batesville.

Including roasted sweet corn served with dollops of gourmet butters at Valparaiso farm-to-fork outpost Valley.

A San Francisco native opens an ice cream shop that doubles as a family-friendly hangout.

Brandon Canfield’s scaled-down creations highlighting the farm’s cheeses and whey-fed pork might not be as daring as dishes he wielded at his previous locations, but his skill at making a restrained palette of ingredients shine is evident.