Indianapolis, IN
45 food trucks in Indianapolis and where to find them
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Liz Biro, liz.biro@indystar.com
Finding a food truck can be taxing and time-consuming — sometimes making you just want to give up on the endeavor — but once your work pays off, you may leave with a new favorite chef, a spot you can brag to your friends about, and a local business you can support.
Indianapolis is home to plenty of foodies and restaurateurs with taste buds for smoked pulled pork sandwiches, freshly fried chicken and authentic street food from Brazil and the Philippines.
IndyStar hopes to make the search easier for foodies hungry to find a new culinary diamond in the rough, so we created a directory of over 45 operating food trucks in the area. Most operate primarily during the summer, and their websites or social media, which you can find linked here, hold a plethora of clues to find their landing spots and hours.
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How do I find a food truck in Indianapolis?
Most food trucks list when and where they are posting up for the day on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Some also keep an updated website with events they are servicing or use a website called Street Food Finder.
Several places around the city also host food truck gatherings. The White River State Park puts on Food Truck Mondays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you want street food later in the week, Ellenberger Park has Food Truck Thursdays. Daredevil Brewing Co. holds an event on the second Friday of each month, and several other establishments do so intermittently.
Check out these local spots this summer.
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Tacos, quesadillas & nachos
Las Tortugas Food Truck & Catering
Fiesta Tacos
Taqueria Mi Costa
Tacopolis
La Familia
Pronto Taco
Food Truck Mil Amores
La Tapatia Tacos
Nacho Mama’s Food Truck
Taco Boss
Birrieria Iturbidense
Queso’s Taco Truck
BBQ
Porkopolis BBQ
Wild Boar BBQ
Triple Play BBQ
DavAni Armenian BBQ
Fat Cat’s Bar-B-Que
Pork Paradise
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Hot dogs, soul food & diner dishes
Garcia’s Hot Dog
Bus Stop Bistro
Box Burger
Jumbo Jive Turkey Legs Smoked & Stuffed
Dashboard Food Truck
Chomp’z Truck
Pi Indy
Bearded Burger
Bearded Bagel
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Tha Corn Man
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Sissa’s Snack Shack
The Alkaline Electric Goddess — vegan
J’s Lobster Food Truck
Karma Kitchen
The Lonely Monkey Food Truck
EveryThang and Potatoes
Chef Dan’s
A mixed bag of cuisines
Taste of Manila — Filipino
Gaucho’s Fire — Brazilian
Pierogi Love Indy — Polish
T’Days Jerk — Caribbean
Celtic Pretzel — Irish
Lil Rook — contemporary Asian
Books, Bourbon & Bacon — Korean hotdogs
Sweet treats
Moo & Lou Frozen Treats
Aw’sum Snoballs
Vivian’s Delightful Treats — vegan
Some trucks were left off the list because they are not local or are an extension of a brick-and-mortar location for events. Did we miss your favorite food truck? Let reporter Cate Charron know by sending an email to ccharron@indystar.com.
Contact IndyStar Pulliam Fellow Cate Charron at ccharron@indystar.com or follow her on Twitter @catecharron.
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Indianapolis, IN
National discount retailer to make it's way to downtown Indianapolis
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INDIANAPOLIS — The downtown Indy building Claypool Court is getting a new retailer.
Officials hope major names like Burlington will bring more Hoosiers and visitors to Mile Square.
WRTV
“There’s definitely a lot of higher-end restaurants right around this area, so I think bringing in some retail stores isn’t a bad idea,” Wesley Slaughter, who lives downtown, said.
The store will sit at Washington and Illinois Streets, an area Slaughter says will be a good fit because it’s a heavily trafficked intersection.
WRTV
“I could see it being beneficial to get more people in the area because otherwise you have to drive outside of 465 just to hit one of those stores,” Slaughter said.
TJ Maxx has been a big part of the downtown retail scene for many years, but now there is some competition with the Burlington that’s going to be a couple of doors down.
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“We’re excited anytime that there’s a new addition to the retail landscape here in downtown Indianapolis,” Taylor Schaffer, with Downtown Indy Inc., said.
Schaffer says this is just part of a pipeline of new projects and development coming to the area.
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The space Burlington will take over is the lower level of Claypool Court. It used to be home to the Rhythm! Discovery Center.
The store is set to open this fall.
Indianapolis, IN
A Yard Of One’s Own – Indianapolis Monthly
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REALTOR Summer Hudson was always waiting for the perfect midcentury modern home to hit the market and lure her away from her beloved Irvington. On Hudson’s popular TikTok channel, Find a Lot to Love, she cooed over original 1960s woodwork and intact bathrooms for the 207,000 followers who enjoyed watching her walk through houses for sale in Central Indiana. But the eXp Realty agent’s own family needed a yard for their 5-year-old daughter more than she needed a pristine Avriel Shull A-frame, so she gave her husband, Ryan Sloan, one criterion: Find a house with the exact same layout as their 3,000-square-foot Irvington ranch, plus a yard, and she’d move.
Lo and behold, he did, in Crows Nest. The three-bed, two-bath house has a circular layout with semi–open concept living, dining, and kitchen spaces and, as a bonus, a pool on the half-acre lot. “I always said I’d never turn down a pool,” Hudson says. The home had been sitting on the market for a while because, in Hudson’s opinion, the listing for 1,800 square feet was misleading; the homeowners couldn’t include the 1,200-square-foot finished attic because the ceiling was too low. Additionally, the photos didn’t do the home justice. “From the outside, it looks tiny and bungalow-ish, but you don’t realize how deep it goes,” she says, adding that the images didn’t showcase the layout’s attractive flow, either. The couple got it under list price for $410,000, and Hudson, who uses the attic as her office, has no regrets—her dream midcentury home can wait. Downsizing forced the couple to purge, and they discovered the joys of a simplified lifestyle. “I’m actually spending more time with my kid out- side. That has been the most amazing part of all of this,” Hudson says.
FAVORITE FEATURE
The nature-filled backyard
PURCHASE DATE
March 2024
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Crows Nest
SQUARE FOOTAGE
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Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis man sentenced to 110 years for 2021 double homicide
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis man has been sentenced to 110 years in prison for his role in a north side shooting that resulted in the death of two men during a $20 marijuana deal in 2021.
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced the sentencing of 21-year-old Camran Perry on Thursday, following a jury’s verdict after a two-day trial. In July, Perry was found guilty of two counts of murder and carrying a handgun without a license, a release said.
Andrew Jones, 21, and Blake Coffman, 20, died in a shooting about 6:45 p.m. Dec. 1, 2021, in the 8800 block of Westfield Way at the 9000 Westfield apartments. That’s just southeast of the intersection of East 91st Street and Westfield Boulevard.
Investigators interviewed a witness who reported hearing “three loud thumps” and seeing a man in a gray sweatsuit standing behind the victims’ vehicle before fleeing the scene. The witness, along with others, then approached the vehicle and called the police.
Two cellphones were recovered at the scene. Investigators obtained warrants for the phones, one of which belonged to Coffman.
According to a release, on Coffman’s phone, which was logged into his personal Instagram account, investigators found video chats and private messages indicating his intention to meet someone at the location of the shooting. The other user of this account deleted their account just hours after the incident. Digital forensics teams traced this account back to Perry.
Perry was taken into custody on Jan. 10. Initially, he denied knowing either of the victims, but later confessed to meeting up with them to make a purchase. Perry later admitted to engaging in a verbal altercation with Coffman and Jones, before shooting both men, police say.
Prosecutor Ryan Mears issued the following statement after the conviction:
“Young people having easy access to firearms leads to them making poor, split-second decisions that result in senseless deaths and tragedy,” stated Prosecutor Mears. “It is incumbent upon us to continue to empower young people with the tools to be mindful of the long-term consequences of gun violence in order to avoid tragedies like this.”
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