Brad Kime

Indy dining news this week features Tini’s expansion, an Indiana native’s pizza boat in the Caribbean, and the groundbreaking for Big Woods Speedway.

Five new mostly rum-based drinks at Tini are poured into punch bowls and offered with cups and ladles.

With Tini’s expansion came a more robust menu of small plates, and with spring upon us, a front patio adds sidewalk seating for 20 more, a feature Kime expects to be a huge hit on the Avenue.

Two years and many martinis after it opened on Mass Ave., hip hangout Tini unveils its months-long renovation, inside and out.

Owner Brad Kime intends to up the ante by introducing a front patio area with 24 seats, a small dance floor, wall cutouts to connect patrons between the two rooms, double-pane front windows apt to open in April 2014, and more.