Bakersfield

This new downtown eatdrinkery hails from Cincinnati’s trendy Over the Rhine neighborhood.

Cincinnati’s Thunderdome Restaurant Group is bringing another one of its hits to Indy, Krueger’s Tavern.

On downtown’s best street, the action shifts to the west end.

Check out the newcomers of Tavern at the Point and Black Eye Take Out.

Give us all the salads and crispy chips, please.

Breakfast foods, Bakersfield, and burgers. Oh boy!

The expansive and ever-changing tap list from Twenty Tap (5406-08 N. College Ave., 317-602-8840) includes this complex Hazy IPA from Three Floyds. Level out the spice from Bakersfield (334 Massachusetts Ave., 317-635-6962) with this duo of refreshing cocktails: The Sangria Rojo featuring Don Miguel Gascon Malbec, El Jimador Blanco, fresh lime, orange juice, agave nectar, […]

Loaded breakfast fries, that’s right, breakfast fries: beer-battered fries topped with gravy, eggs, shredded aged cheddar, & your choice of bacon, ham, or chorizo from Ralston’s Drafthouse (635 Massachusetts Ave., 317-493-1143). The mild chicken in green sauce taco from The Tamale Place at City Market (222 E. Market St., 317-423-2203). Subito (44 Virginia Ave., 317-220-8211) […]

Indy dining news this week includes the departure of a popular local chef, new taps at Yard House, and Bakersfield’s expansion project.

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.

Indy dining news this week includes a distillery coming soon to Mass Ave, the opening of The Eagle, and Bar Louie’s new Greenwood location.

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