Little neighborhood bars
are the best, especially when no-fuss food is involved, say
from-scratch chicken salad on a grilled cheese. That’s the case at
this old house just south of Downtown Indianapolis.
Michael
Sherfick and Gabby Sherfick
revamped the circa-1900 place, preserving its wood floors and
maintaining a picket fence outside. It's almost like going to your
parents or a good friend’s house to watch the game and raid the
fridge.
The menu changes weekly,
but there's always a soup of the day, never fancy and tasty with a
ham and cheese sandwich. Everything goes well with craft beers on
tap, a handful of wines and old-school craft cocktails sure to make
Dad happy.
Sherfick Companies, a
local family owned construction
company, remodeled the
Bates-Hendricks home within walking distance to local businesses. 2
car detached garage is FINISHED!!! This modern farmhouse is cozy and
chic! Tile showers with multiple shower heads, hardwood floors,
CUSTOM KITCHEN with a waterfall quartz island and pot filler, large
bedrooms, open floor plan, cathedral ceiling, and a large loft! Smart
doorbell on the front door for security and convenience. Price
includes custom modern privacy fence to be finished. No expense was
spared on this remodel! Easy commute to Eli Lily, Downtown, Fountain
Square, & I65/I70.
Johnson said. 1718 will also offer outdoor seating on a rear
patio.Johnson, who moved to Bates Hendricks with wife Tiffany
Obrecht-Johnson in 2016, said the opportunity to run a restaurant
appealed to him for a couple of reasons. The two couples met each
other through Obrecht-Johnson's business, Blank Page Marketing. That
business is next door at 1720 S. East St., in a building also owned by Sherfick Companies.
He saw a business opportunity in the fact that Bates-Hendricks is a busy neighborhood with a growing number of young families, yet it has very few restaurants. Johnson also relished the chance to get back into the hospitality business. He most recently worked in construction but earlier in his career spent about a decade in food service, including a stint at the Rathskeller restaurant near Massachusetts Avenue.
Kilroy's Bar N Grill has closed its downtown location at 201 S. Meridian St. for a couple of weeks while it deals with repairs.
Kilroy's closed Wednesday and will remain closed for the next two to four weeks while it does flooring repairs, said Managing Partner Chris Burton. Kilroy's other location, at 831 Broad Ripple Ave., will remain open.
Kilroy's opened downtown in 2009. Its Broad Ripple site, at 831 Broad Ripple Ave., opened in 2012. The original Kilroy's is in Bloomington, but it has different ownership than the Indianapolis sites, Burton said.
The Small Mall, which sells furniture, art and home items at 5050 E. 62nd St., will close at the end of this month.
Owner Elizabeth Dillon opened The Small Mall in 2011 as a fine furniture resale shop. Over time, she invited others to rent booth space in the 7,000-square-foot facility. Dillon said her lease is up at the end of the month, and rather than renewing she decided it's time to retire. “It was just an opportunity to face time and say, How many more years do you want to do this, or do you want to try some new things? Dillon said she and all the other Small Mall vendors are holding liquidation sales to get rid of their inventory by months end.
A meditation studio called Urban Meditation is coming to 8487 Union Chapel Road in the Fashion Mall Commons shopping center near the Fashion Mall at Keystone. Business owner Tina Hallett and meditation instructor Tanya Stevens are teaming up on the venture, which will offer meditation classes, energy healing, chakra balancing and a small retail area within the 1,500-square-foot space.
The studio, which aims to open by December, will offer both meditation classes and open studio times where clients can drop in to meditate on their own. Clients can purchase monthly memberships or pay per visit. The meditation space will feature soothing music, blankets, pillows and eye masks clients can use on site. It's not a fitness center, Stevens said, but the concept is similar offer a place people can visit regularly to improve their health. We're teaching them how to work out their minds and their emotional feelings.
Rebar Indy, which reopened under new ownership earlier this year, has closed again.
Four business partners, including orthopedic surgeon Jason Watters, opened Rebar in the summer of 2016. The establishment, at 20 N. Delaware St., closed in January and reopened the following month under the ownership of Chef Charles Mereday.
Mereday said he closed Rebar at the end of June because he couldn't attract enough business to make the spot viable. On weekend nights and during special events downtown ReBar was busy, Mereday said, but it struggled to find customers at other times. It's a tough location. There was no weekday volume there, Mereday told IBJ. It always ended up being a loss. Watters is also the manager of a partnership that owns the building. He did not return a phone call seeking comment on future plans for the space.
