Restaurants in Indianapolis

The husband-and-wife team behind So Italian brings the taste of home-cooked Italian dinners to the restaurant’s dining room, filling tables with piping hot pizzas, leaning towers of pasta, sub sandwiches, and bowls of soup. Vibrant marigold-hued walls hold framed mirrors that reflect piping hot calzones or preening stromboli adjusting its tie. Meals can be eaten outside, picked up, delivered to your doorstep, or catered for special events.

Within the confines of the converted church and gospel hall, Euphoria mixes and mingles fresh, seasonal ingredients to construct creative, modern American appetizers and entrees. Peruse the sophisticated menu before nibbling on an appetizer of phyllo-wrapped goat cheese accented by a fennel, pear, red onion, and chestnut salad ($10). The succulent entreetainment includes seared lamb loin, which serenades taste buds with the help of a backing band of parsnips, golden beets, capers, and yellow curry spaetzle ($30). Pan-roasted monkfish shares plate space with demi-glazed mushrooms, golden raisins, and celery salad ($24), and a Gunthorp Farms maple-bourbon-glazed pork chop makes its table travels attended by an entourage of fall squash, grilled knob onions, and sycophantic yes-men ($28). Euphoria also offers a lighter bar menu and a rotating roster of cheeses, both ideal for snack-samplers looking to make a mouth-friendly match with a selection from the extensive list of wines.

Practice the sublime art of sandwich eating with today's Groupon to J.S. Reutz Café: $5 gets you $10 worth of comforting cafe fare. Located in the John H. Boner Community Center, this charming lunch spot serves high-quality Boar's Head meats and cheeses and Charlotte's Bakery bread every Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Let sweeping brushstrokes of pesto and architectural stacks of cheese adorn your internal art gallery at J.S. Reutz Café.The Breakfast Club: Director’s Cut: The lost director’s cut of this unforgettable musing on high-school stereotypes adds a cosmic perspective when the nerdish Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) falls off a desk during horseplay. Reaching out to correct himself, he tears a hole in the fabric of reality through which the cleansing light of heaven pours. The teens are trapped, not in detention, but in purgatory.

Don't dismiss this comfort food cookery based on its location in the back of a filling station—the menu is packed with palate-pleasing selections. Raising 10 children on the south side of Indianapolis and working 30 years in St. Francis Hospital's cafeteria helped Maxine's namesake owner master her famed recipes and has also rendered her thoroughly immune to "guff." The signature dish pairs golden waffles with fried chicken and a generous dollop of whipped butter, giving diners the best of both worlds. Soul-food staples (crunchy cornbread, collard greens, fried green tomatoes) round out the menu.

For years, the almighty sandwich has protected innumerable forks and knives from boiling-hot dishwashers, and Ricci's vast menu honors this tradition with a host of bread-busting deli sandwiches (starting at $4.79), including meaty mainstays such as corned beef, turkey, and roast beef. Geometrical gourmets can also indulge affinities for circular comestibles with a half-pound burger ($7.99) or fulfill sensitive sides with the tenderloin ($7.99), which is available breaded, grilled, or encased in bronze.

Whether you get your burger stuffed with cheese or stuffed with burger and topped with cheese, Brickhouse's skilled artisans will treat your burger patty with the tender care most reserve for pet pigs and dollies. Brickhouse Burger Company serves up beefy bites amidst four 100-inch projection televisions that fill the air with the buzz of sports and the soothing voices of sports pundits. Whether you dig the energy of the clubhouse seating area or prefer the quiet of Brickhouse’s separate dining area, a menu of meals will pique your hunger tooth and activate dormant burger glands at the base of your skull so that your jaw unhinges a little.