restaurants

During Sunday brunch, gospel music hums in the background as dolled-up church ladies flock to the buffet for cream cheese–stuffed French toast and another piece of fried chicken.

The restaurant’s window-fringed dining room highlights slate-black tables, bench seating, wooden stools, and blown-up portraits of colorful dishes infused with produce from the onsite gardens.

Jenkins found a neighborhood niche by turning the back half of the restaurant into a grownups-only hangout with bartenders swinging bottles of Sparkle Donkey reposado over salt-rimmed Mason jars.

Fat Dan’s announces plans for a second location, and a new Elkhart-based pretzel shop opens inside Circle Centre.

Including a heavenly slice of Earl’s Court chocolate cake from Cake Bake Shop.

Nibbles like chimichurri sliders, chicken mole tamales, and fully loaded steak-and-egg chilaquiles bring to mind the freshest portable fare from a south-of-the-border street vendor.

An uncompromisingly seasonal menu with maritime influences and international accents, from South America to the Mediterranean.

This place has enough rustic-modern style (and Smoking Goose meats) to woo committed carnivores, and plenty of finesse in the kitchen to make them crave clean living.

Though Bacon Legs & Turntables’s concept is trendy, its location claims a storied past. Here’s a peek at its many former lives.

B Spot Burgers plans to open this summer, and SoBro loses a beloved brunch spot.

Including the popular corn cakes at Delicia, topped with barbacoa beef.

Here, the veteran chef divulges her go-to salad recipe, which will appear on menus this spring.

“The secret to a long life is one glass of wine a day,” says Charles Thomas, owner of Chateau Thomas Winery.

Dreamy sweets from a Broad Ripple patisserie, an urban doughnut shop, and a suburban bakery made our list of best new desserts.

Including Spoke & Steele’s shareable plate of juicy meatloaf nugs.