Fletcher Place

“We’ve had some good discussions with leaders about potential expansions,” says trail executive director Karen Haley.

A Cincinnati-based modern Mexican spot announces plans to come downtown, and a specialty tea shop opens in The Fashion Mall.

Indy’s new love affair with thick, cheesy, Chicago-style pizza has many intricate layers.

A new prohibition-focused restaurant nears its opening in Fletcher Place, and a Texas-based cinema-microbrewery debuts its new Carmel location.

Jonathan Brooks lavishes the bed-head crowd with creative takes on the morning meal at Milktooth.

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

After months of anticipation and a slow, sexy rollout that included a series of preview brunches, Milktooth was finally ready for business in October.

What’s your poison? Hotel Tango, a new artisan distillery in Fletcher Place, has it.

Indiana’s 63 breweries in 2013 ranked us a modest 20th nationwide for a total number, and we were a middling 14th for our craft breweries per capita—not bad, but not as dominant as we might think.

The black-raspberry Key lime, oozing with tart filling, and the coffee-and-cream, featuring a java-spiked chocolate frosting and a custardy center, seem particularly inspired.

The revolving menu of complex dishes, such as the thin slivers of lamb tongue fanned out amid dollops of tart ricotta tzatziki, remains the city’s most inspired source for quirky gourmet.

Almost as soon as he installed himself in the kitchen in late August, Carlos Salazar was coining new dinner dishes that, while adding sophistication and breadth to Rook’s already funky menu, furthered Ed Rudisell’s goal of making Asian street-food standards worthy of a night on the town.

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.

If there were a playbook for new restaurants, mapping out everything hot and covetable right now in the ever-changing game of dining out, Fletcher Place newcomer Bluebeard would already have it memorized.