May 18, 2012

2012 Spring Food Truck Throwdown

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(Download the PDF Bracket) Come enjoy an afternoon of Indy Food Trucks & hanging out with the Naptown Buzz crew at Burd Ford for the 2012 Spring Food Truck Throwdown on Saturday, April 21st starting at 11am. Please register at Eventbrite and/or on Facebook for a chance to win prizes. There will be a $500 cash [...]

First Watch Restaurant Opens In Indianapolis

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Award-winning Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch restaurant First Watch opened its first location in Indianapolis this week. Located on the corner of Keystone Avenue and 86th Street, the 3,080 sq. ft. restaurant occupies an end cap space at the Keystone Crossing Shoppes across from The Fashion Mall. The restaurant will feature a new outdoor patio for [...]

Cowboy Caviar at Indianapolis City Market from U-Relish Farm

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A grand celebration is planned to welcome the Professional Bull Riders to the Indianapolis City Market on Friday, April 13th. U-Relish Farm debuts a new preservative free meal in a minute “Cowboy Caviar” furthering the realization of its vision of becoming a destination for artisan-crafted foods and gourmet retail products. Offering meals-in-a-minute, U-Relish’s Farm promise [...]

U-Relish Farm: From Tweetup to Small Business

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What started as a simple contribution to a bacon tweetup is now a full on artisan-crafted food and a gourmet retail product. U-Relish Farm is now located in the Indianapolis City Market main house, and has been making a splash since August. Executive Manager Cara Dafforn (@CaraDafforn) brought the barbeque red lentils to a bacon [...]

St. Patrick’s Day in Indianapolis 2012

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With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Saturday this year, there are a lot of options to choose from starting in the morning and rolling on through the wee hours of the morning.  Here are some of our top picks. Rock the Shamrock Tent Party: Come party in a 5,000 square foot heated tent with an [...]

Bacon Tweetup #2

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Come enjoy an evening of bacon & hanging out with the Naptown Buzz crew at Burd Ford.  Follow @naptownbuzz on Twitter for more information or to ask questions. All participants* must bring a bacon treat. PRIZES Burd Ford  Circle City Spuds Indiana Repertory Theatre The Pork Shoppe Squealears BBQ The Tie Dye Grill U-Relish Farm And [...]

Fourth Annual National Maple Syrup Festival

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When Indiana’s top ag man taps the ceremonial sugar maple on Sat., March 3 at noon on Burton’s Maplewood Farm, he’ll christen the fourth annual National Maple Syrup Festival.  Joe Kelsay, director of the Indiana Department of Agriculture, also will signify the first tree in the U.S. to be tapped for the 2012 maple sugaring [...]

First Friday Food Truck Festival

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October’s First Friday Food Truck Fest (phew, what a mouthful!) was back on October 7th in the Murat parking lot due to an overwhelming response to the first one in September. Presented by MOKB, Live Nation, Leinenkugel and NUVO, this month’s fest brought in more trucks, activities, art and music for your enjoyment. For a [...]

Chef JJ’s New Bistro Boasts Bountiful Variety of Options.

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On Thursday, 9/15/11, I had the pleasure in partaking in the opening launch for Chef JJ’s Big Green Bistro; a unique spin on the emerging food truck culture, as it is aimed to be a high-class mobile catering unit. The restaurant, if one could assign it the moniker, is essentially a tricked-out RV equipped with [...]

16th Annual Rib America Festival

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Downtown Indy will rock this Labor Day weekend, September 2-5, when the 16th annual Rib America Festival presented by Indiana Pork Farmers returns. The 2011 lineup is loaded with the biggest names to date at Indy’s biggest and best BBQ and music event. The Budweiser music stage will rock with REO Speedwagon, The Doobie Brothers, [...]