Calvin Fletchers Coffee Company

The year’s best eats and drinks.

PSL announcement: these fall-flavored coffees are the perfect seasonal transitions.

This week’s restaurant dispatch includes a new Italian restaurant in Fall Creek Place and updates on weekend fires at Saraga and Oriental Inn.

If you’re a big pumpkin spice fan (or if you’re not) these fall coffee drinks are perfect to sip while crunching your way through the falling leaves.

Over the last few years, an enterprising group of restaurateurs and entrepreneurs seized on an opportunity to turn this strip into Indy’s hippest address for restaurants, breweries, markets, and bars.

Credit the Cultural Trail for helping turn Fletcher Place into the city’s new Restaurant Row.

Coffee is Instagram’s greatest inspiration. See how these Indy coffee shops do it better.

Despite its newfound trendiness, the neighborhood still manages to retain its historic charm.

At first whiff, you might think you’ve stumbled into a French bakery at Lilly’s Soap Kitchen (below). The handmade soaps here look like slabs of swirled pound cake and come in yummy scents.

Meaty grilled octopus, moistened with a creamy, garlicky bagna cauda and served with crusty Amelia’s bread for cleaning off the plate juices, at Bluebeard (653 Virginia Ave., 317-686-1580). The beef short ribs at Cerulean (339 S. Delaware St.,