Spice Box

This week’s Swoon List is sinfully delicious.

Gourmet ice cream. Barrel-aged coffee. A week’s worth of dishes from Rook. Here, our list of the food and drink that made this city great this year.

Five of our favorite restaurateurs who have put their operations in park.

Eating our feelings with doughnuts from Jack’s and a Middle Eastern feast at the soon-to-expand Al Rayan Restaurant.

Over the last few years, an enterprising group of restaurateurs and entrepreneurs seized on an opportunity to turn this strip into Indy’s hippest address for restaurants, breweries, markets, and bars.

Credit the Cultural Trail for helping turn Fletcher Place into the city’s new Restaurant Row.

The five dishes you must try this week, including The Garden Table’s Lyonnaise salad.

The five things you must eat this week, including Marrow’s steamed coco buns.

The local food truck has a new brick-and-mortar location coming soon.

Indy dining news this week features Rook closing before a move, Rocket 88 opening in SoBro, and Cunningham Restaurant Group opening a dinner-only spot.

Rook announces plans to relocate, and Broad Ripple gets a new cantina.

1.     Watermelon gazpacho—rich and yet refreshing—at Bluebeard (653 Virginia Ave., 317-686-1580). A fresh fluke-and-corn ceviche tops the bowl.