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I couldn't find the guide to each BE city thread so was hoping for some recommendations on where to stay in Indy. I've been twice for hurling tournaments I was in but once was in a super dead area and once was by Brothers which was a shit show. my buddies and I are all in our very late 20s into craft beer and local food. Any tips Butler fans or other people that have stayed there?

Where are you staying?

Id imagine if you were at Brothers you made your way to Broad Ripple. Are you going to be downtown? Around Butler (central - Broad Ripple is here) or north (Carmel / Zionsville / Noblesville)?

Edrick wrote:Where are you staying?

Id imagine if you were at Brothers you made your way to Broad Ripple. Are you going to be downtown? Around Butler (central - Broad Ripple is here) or north (Carmel / Zionsville / Noblesville)?

That's actually what I'm looking for. Not just bar/brewery/food recommendations but Suggested location of the city to stay in too. I was at the one downtown before not in broad ripple.

As a Marquette alum that has lived in Indy since graduating in 2015 I’ll try to give some ideas.

Broad ripple and fountain square are the obvious answers if you are looking for walkable night life. Broad ripple is more of a college crowd and sometimes a bit of a shit show. Fountain Square has several good restaurants and a few breweries. It’s also located near downtown. Mass ave is another option, it’s downtown about a mile from where the brothers is you where at last time. Lots of restaurants and bars, but generally isn’t a shit show like the area by brothers can be.

I live on the near east side so my recommendations probably are bias towards the restaurants/breweries around me.

Food/brewery recommendations-
Upland brewery, just opened a new location in fountain square, I haven’t been yet but their other Indy location is excellent, good food.
St Joesph Brewery, just off mass ave, has decent beer. In an old church. Good food.
Sun king brewery, downtown, beer is fine, they are the biggest local brewery. No food
CenterPoint brewery, on the near east side/just northeast of mass ave. Good beer. No food. Generally quiet space that has some pin ball machines, down the street from 8th day distillery which has good gin.
Kuma’s Corner- good burgers in fountain square
Shoefly public house- my favorite restaurant in Indy, near north side, 10 minute Uber from downtown. Not a whole lot by it other than Mashcraft which is a taproom with good cheapish food.
Siam Square- good Thai food in fountain square
Black Acre Brewery, great beer, in Irvington which is kinda away from everything else about 15 mins east of downtown. Next door to jockamos pizza which has good pizza.
The Rathskeller, German beer hall on mass ave. They have live music a lot.
Bluebeard- great restaurant in the fountain square area. Across the street from hotel tango which is a distillery with good mixed drinks.
Milk tooth- great brunch place. Down the street from Bluebeard.
Chatham Tap- soccer bar on mass ave. Similiar to nomad in mke.
Metezoa brewery-good brewery downtown. Always a bunch of dogs there.


Hope this is helpful. If you don’t stay downtown you’ll probably need to get an Airbnb.

As I am a Indy native, you probably guessed by now there is nothing real close to the Fieldhouse since the area was all built up with residential years ago. I like to stay in the Carmel area as it has basically all been built up in the last 30 yrs. or so and is somewhat up scale with a ton of hotels, restaurants and bars. I invariably hang out at Muldoon's when I go back but my buddies rave about the Cigar Bar there. some more options:

http://carmel-indiana.funcityfinder.com/nightlife/

Not intending to disrespect, I don't think someone from out of town should go to Carmel on purpose for the weekend.

As stated above, you're best bet is going to be somewhere downtown or up towards Broad Ripple. I ran between Butler and Broad Ripple every day for years, it takes about 10 minutes to drive

https://www.visitindy.com/indianapolis- ... le-village

Broad Ripple works if you can get a nice Airbnb around there, not so much for hotels.

Does Hinkle sell beer? And if not are there metal detectors for flasks?

Hinkle is selling beer now and they have metal detectors. I only get there every other year, but I end up either downtown or up by 465, depending on if I'm getting out of dodge the next day or not.

These are pretty good recommendations. Broad Ripple is the old stand-by for bar-hopping, but has aged. Fountain Square is the trendy new house-flipper community, but I think it is WAY overrated. Mass Ave is the trendy, but condo/apartment dwellers. Downtown has a lot of tourist/convention traffic, so there are a lot of generic sports bars.

Local favorites include Kilroy's (Downtown and Broad Ripple) - get their stuffed bread sticks, Chatham Tap (Mass Ave and Butler campus) is a soccer bar, but located with a view of Hinkle, Upland & Sun King are the two heavyweight local breweries, Milktooth and Bluebeard get national recognition.