May 8, 2010
Cory SchoutenMike Cunningham has run dining spots ranging from a bar and grill to yogurt stands and is now growing a popular chain of upscale
restaurants—primarily under the Stone Creek Dining Co. name—in Indiana and Ohio.
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May 8, 2010
IBJ StaffThe bar and restaurant will take about 3,600 square feet in the building, which has OneAmerica and ExactTarget as its anchor
office tenants.
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May 7, 2010
Mason King
The
Broad Ripple-based brewpub's owners bet its Belgian beer and vittles will go over just as well outside Indy. But first
they need $1 million from an investor, in part to streamline brewing.
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May 4, 2010
Cory SchoutenA group of dissident investors is trying to wrest control of the Denny's restaurant chain using the same formula that
led to a successful takeover of Steak n Shake.
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May 1, 2010
Lou HarryFirst in a month-long series of new Broad Ripple restaurant reviews. This week: Flatwater.
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April 30, 2010
Mason King
Art Bouvier fled his corporate IT gig to open a small Cajun place without
a business plan or prior restaurant experience. After a number of blunders, Papa Roux looks like it will pan out.
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April 23, 2010
Mason King
IBJ's new video feature on restaurateurs tries curbside
service at Speedway's Mug-n-Bun, unchanged in concept since the 1960s but now sporting subtle tweaks.
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April 21, 2010
Scott OlsonFountain Square eatery owner Taki Sawi is one of only three restaurant operators to receive an award given by National Restaurant
Association every two years.
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April 16, 2010
Mason King
After a sales slowdown during the recession forced him to close the high-end eatery L'explorateur, Neal Brown mulled
a move into Neopolitan-style pizza with friendlier price points. The result—Pizzology Pizzeria & Pub—is off
to a profitable start.
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April 14, 2010
Scott OlsonThe Mass Ave. restaurant is set to become Mesh, which will feature a more casual atmosphere and menu, as well as a new operator
who will
lease the space
from the building's owners.
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April 9, 2010
Mason King
In
IBJ's new video feature on front-burner business issues that vex restaurants, Regina Mehallick
of downtown's R bistro mulls the financial and personal demands of running a chef-owned eatery with a menu that changes
every week.
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March 16, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
Scholars Inn’s growth engine is its wholesale bakery, which distributes granola and other
fresh products across state lines thanks
to deals with
partners like Kroger.
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February 27, 2010
Andrea Muirragui Davis
Scott Wise has five Scotty's Brewhouse locations and
is set to debut the Scotty's Lakehouse concept Monday. Within 10 years, he'd like to have
restaurants in the Southeast and on the West Coast.
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February 26, 2010
Andrea Muirragui DavisIndianapolis restaurateur Scott Wise is moving forward with plans to launch Scotty’s Thr3e Wise Men Brewing Co., a microbrewery
that will produce craft beer for his eateries and the public. It will share space with another startup craft brewer.
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February 20, 2010
Lou HarryLast in our month-long series of reviews of College Avenue eateries. This week: The Northside Social.
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February 6, 2010
Cory SchoutenIndianapolis is on the verge of losing one of its most prominent public companies. The Steak n Shake Co. is planning to
change its name to Biglari Holdings Inc. and move its headquarters to San Antonio. The Steak n Shake restaurant chain would
retain a presence in Indianapolis.
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February 6, 2010
Lou HarrySecond in our month-long series of reviews of College Avenue eateries.
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January 30, 2010
Andrea Muirragui DavisGreg Hardesty's new restaurant features an ever-changing menu.
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January 29, 2010
Associated PressSteak n Shake Co. said Friday it posted a fourth-quarter profit, and said it is planning to change its corporate name to Biglari
Holdings Inc.
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January 16, 2010
Lou HarryThird in a month-long series of visits to new pizza places.
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January 9, 2010
IBJ StaffBobby Joe’s Beef and Brew, a popular home-grown restaurant at Southport Road and Interstate 65,
has closed. Riviera Maya, billed as an authentic Mexican restaurant, is slated to replace Old Town Ale
House in Fishers
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January 2, 2010
Cory SchoutenFrom 1999 to 2008, Steak n Shake Co. spent an average of $55 million a year to add dozens of restaurants and buy equipment
for existing
ones. In 2009, the locally based
chain spent just $5.8 million.
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January 2, 2010
Lou HarryRichard's Pizza Kitchen kicks off a month of new pizzeria reviews.
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December 26, 2009
Lou HarryLots changed on the Indy culinary front in 2009.
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December 8, 2009
Scott OlsonAn Italian restaurant whose owner has ties to embattled local businessman Tim Durham is poised to take the first-floor
space in Circle Centre mall formerly occupied by Bertolini’s.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.