Fountain Square Food Tour: Tasting the Southside’s Comeback

Fountain Square has been the southside’s primary commercial corridor since the 1860s. Once home to more theaters than any other part of Indianapolis and an important cultural destination in the early 20th century, the neighborhood now combines renovated period buildings with a rapid wave of new restaurants and art galleries. The Fountain Square Food Tour offers an in-depth look at that arc — from humble beginnings and moments of grandeur, through decline and into the area’s current resurgence — and pairs the story with tastings from long-standing institutions and hip new destinations.