Chris Baggott

A hot shot cocktail bar in Bloomington now has the food pedigree to match their drinks.

Baggott’s early years were marked by the kind of pain, frustration, and failure that would wreck anyone not equipped with his tenacious belief that better things are around the corner.

But there are a few bugs in the program that gets the city there.

“About 18 percent of venture-backed tech companies in the U.S. have at least one female founder on the team. Here, that number is only 8 percent.”

The second incarnation of entrepreneur Chris Baggott’s farm-to-curb concept that started in Greenfield checks every box for a successful run.

You want to root for a place this genuine and charming, with its patio lit by string lights and framed in 300-gallon stock tanks full of flowers—and its sweet plaid-shirted servers as chatty as old high school buddies you might run into at Target.

Indy dining news this week includes Bru Burger’s next location, the opening of Griggsby’s Station, and Black Market’s annual barbecue month.

What kind of wrinkle in the time-space continuum must occur for an online order of food to arrive, hot and fresh at my curb, barely 20 minutes after clicking on the “place order” button, which is faster than I could walk to City Market?

A handful of contenders for Top 25 inclusion didn’t open their doors before our deadline. Here, the places we’re keeping a close eye on this year.

Indy dining news this week includes Chris Baggott’s new farm-to-table eatery in Greenfield, a South American restaurant launching in SoBro, and Metazoa Brewing Co.’s grand-opening date.

Rook’s relaunch, Vida’s grand-opening date, and Chris Baggott’s upcoming ventures.

Endangered Species launches a new chocolate bar, a longtime family restaurant announces plans to close, and a popular food truck prepares to open a pop-up restaurant.

Meet the locals who have dishes named after them.

A grand courthouse, an assortment of hip shops, local eateries, and homegrown businesses (including a craft brewery), and more

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