Fountain Square Dining

Find out what’s cooking around Indy this week.

Warm up with loaded fries at Bluebeard, pancakes at Super Bowl Pho, and combat holiday sweets with a kale power salad.

John Adams gets soulful at his new Fountain Square venture, Marrow.

John Adams will open a globally inspired soul-food spot in the heart of Fountain Square.

As consulting chef, Carlos Salazar assembled a menu of modified Southern dishes that are surprisingly complex for the bar-centric format.

Carlos Salazar’s umami-rich mushroom dumplings, pork-belly steamed buns, and meat-on-meat pig-face hash have raised the culinary bar while channeling the true spirit of Asia’s great street-food snacks.

What this snug hideaway lacked in signage (just look for the “T” on the front door), it made up for in gritty-chic charm.

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.

Ripple Bagel & Deli’s (850 Broad Ripple Ave.,317-257-8326) Wild Honey Pie—a steamed blueberry bagel with honey, cinnamon sugar, banana, and peanut butter. A cup of creamy, cheddary tomato-basil bisque from The Grilled Cheese Spot food truck. Palomino