Other top choices:
Bluebeard - Irvington/Fountain Square. 4 or 5 minutes from the JW in a artsy, eclectic neighborhood with several small music venues, other restaurants and some really nice cocktail bars (most notably for me Imbibe, La Revolucion, Brass Ring)
The Libertine - great drinks, made the right way. Small plate dinner choices. A few blocks from the JW.
Ball and Biscuit - more drinks than food, but night cocktail spot. Mass Avenue District, 4-5 minutes from JW.
MacNivans - Scottish Pub. Traditional Scottish food, great beer and whiskey selection. Mass Ave.
BARcelona - Tapas. Downtown.
Ralph's Great Divide - A little but of a dive, but really good food. Not fancy, but a nice experience. Piano player on the weekend. Around the corner from Sun King Brewery.
Smoking Goose Meatery - Yep, I said meatery! Cured meats of every description! Irvington, about same distance as Fountain Square, in roughly the same direction. Next door to Flat12 brewery.
King David Dogs - Best hot dog you've ever had. Downtown.
Brugge - Belgian food, Broadripple. Good beer, duck fat fried frites.
Flatwater - Broadripple. Great beer selection, along the canal.
I am astounded to find out just what a cosmopolitan lot my INGO e-friends are.
I have lived in Indianapolis for 58 years, and I have never heard of a single one of the places that Rockhopper mentions.
This thread has shifted my paradigm. All of this time I thought that we were all a batch of gun toting savages.
Now I feel alone and frightened.
I am astounded to find out just what a cosmopolitan lot my INGO e-friends are.
I have lived in Indianapolis for 58 years, and I have never heard of a single one of the places that Rockhopper mentions.
This thread has shifted my paradigm. All of this time I thought that we were all a batch of gun toting savages.
Now I feel alone and frightened.