cocktails

While the new menu highlights “Indiana Home-Cookin’ Entrees,” we tasted flashes of sophistication in the extras.

Tanjerine’s spirited mix-off competition Wednesday night, held in a rehabbed former church building, kick-started its four days of events.

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.

The perfect blazer for spring, pop-culture magnets, and a sleek vintage cocktail set.

Kendall Lockwood warns that between the creamy, milkshake-like consistency and the potent coffee grounds, this frozen whiskey drink is best when sipped very, very slowly.

These intriguing names for concoctions hail from The Libertine, Black Market, Bluebeard, Nicky Blaine’s, The Ball & Biscuit, and Plat 99.

One couple visited all of Indianapolis Monthly’s recommended Best Bars—and have a top-five ranking of their own to share.

Items range from Midwestern chow chow at The Loft to curried broiled salmon at FARM Bloomington to oysters Rockefeller at Weber Grill.

So you’ve munched on corn at the Indiana State Fair and had your mouth set afire by a certain shrimp-cocktail sauce. But what are the modern-day rites of passage? We have answers.

Only one state prohibits the retail sale of packaged alcoholic beverages on Sunday while also allowing it to be served at bars, restaurants, and events. Spoiler alert: It’s us.

It seems the key to the heart of Indianapolis’s most notables bars will always be red.

A guide to prime living locations in Indianapolis for twentysomething pros, with a few surprises: “I have seen anything from random shopping carts on fire hydrants to dresses on stop signs.”

Including Indiana State Fair (fried) food porn, a celebrity’s surprise visit at a downtown eatery, a buzzworthy drink prepared 10 different ways, and much more.

Including one of Indiana’s biggest cons, a complicated woman in her final days, a reality-TV hilljack, the crafty governor-elect, a big-deal farmer, the coupling of an actress and a corn-fed rocker, and more.

A toast to Indiana’s greatest literary master.