Varsity Social Club is expected to occupy the entirety of the 11,000-square-foot ground floor space at 1 Virginia Ave., which for nearly a decade was home to Scotty’s Brewhouse.
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Celebrated chef Jonathan Brooks opened the meat-and-three-concept last month after closing Milktooth, an award-winning brunch spot.
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In seven weeks of doing business, The Besties’ Table breakfast and brunch restaurant has transformed an unremarkable intersection near the University of Indianapolis into a culinary hot spot.
The first location outside of Indiana opened in November in Lexington, Kentucky, and two locations are scheduled to open in suburban Cincinnati later this year.
Sahm’s Hospitality Group plans to place a Big Lug restaurant and taproom in the former location of Garfield Brewery.
Chef Tyler Williams will open the Besties’ Table Saturday in a building previously occupied by restaurants Jailbird and Open Kitchen.
The owner of Bovaconti coffee shops is partnering with the former director of operations for bygone Carmel restaurant Tre to open a new Italian restaurant.
The new restaurant, which will offer a lunch format known as meat-and-three, was named for Brooks’ mother, Arlene.
The new spot will become the fifth central Indiana location operated by Mark and Lauren Weghorst, joining restaurants in Noblesville, Carmel, Fishers and downtown’s Mass Ave neighborhood.
The Alcoholic Beverage Board of Marion County recently approved a license for the Kentucky-based restaurant, which will take over a space formerly occupied by Pier 48 Fish House & Oyster Bar.
New businesses The Alchemist, Recess and Flora & Flame have generated a buzz.
Kelsey Murphy, whose culinary career launched after her 2021 victory as a contestant on Fox’s “MasterChef,” opened Clutch Kitchen this month at The Yard at Fishers District in the former Fishers Test Kitchen space.
In November, Kimmie Chang opened Okonori Japanese High Kitchen in The Corner, a new mixed-use development by Indianapolis-based Kite Realty Group at the intersection of East 116th Street and Rangeline Road.
Multiple retailers, restaurants and other businesses recently opened or announced plans to open in the north suburbs of Indianapolis. Here’s a rundown.
Speedway City Garage will be home to Founders Grounds Coffee Co. and a taproom for Lapel-based Pax Verum Brewing Co.
The Champagne Velvet-themed restaurants celebrate nearly forgotten beer resurrected by Upland Brewing Co. in 2013.
IBJ spoke to Eve Keller about her life and love of women’s sports and spaces. Read on for a transcript of that conversation, edited for length and clarity.
Jeremiah Hamman, who co-founded the first Indiana location of Mo’s A Place for Steaks in 2003, plans to open the new Mo’s in an 8,900-square-foot building previously home to a Smokey Bones restaurant.
The restaurant will be a sibling business of Aroma Experience, which opened in 2024 as part of the Carmel City Center development.
Multiple retailers, restaurants and other businesses recently opened, closed or began planning new locations in the north suburbs of Indianapolis. Here’s a rundown.
The company that launched Indiana hamburger chain Clancy’s and casual dining concept Grindstone Charley’s is planning a restaurant in Noblesville next year that is inspired by Japanese kissa lounges known for catering to audiophiles since the 1950s.
Lou Malnati’s, one of the top brands of Chicago deep-dish pizza, closed its four central Indiana locations in February, less than five years after entering the market.
