On today's Dopest we're covering:
Corridor — Mediterranean-inspired food and handmade pasta that lives rent free in your head after one visit
Solely Wine — Indianapolis's only natural wine bar and the best third place you haven't found yet
Indiana Vintage Market — 40+ vendors at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds this weekend only
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-Hillary
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Bold claim incoming: the buttered noodles at Corridor will make you question even the fanciest noodle dish. That's not hyperbole — that's what happens when you eat handmade pasta for the first time and realize everything you've been eating before was just trying its best.
Corridor draws inspiration from the full Mediterranean corridor — Portugal to the Middle East — with menus shaped by seasonality, fresh local ingredients, and a balance between vegetable-forward and protein-driven dishes. Plenty for vegans and vegetarians, plenty for people who want something more classic, and a market side that brings the same ethos home with ready-to-heat staples, Rosa's Tiramisu, Mimi's Cookies, and Nicole-Taylor's handmade pasta available to take with you.
This is the kind of restaurant that becomes part of your routine without you noticing. One visit for lunch, one visit for the market, one visit because you've been thinking about those noodles all week. It happens to everyone.
📍1134 E 54th St
The Dopest Tip: Order the pasta. Whatever pasta. Just order it. Then buy some from the market to take home so you don't have to wait until your next visit.
Via @solely_wine
🍷 The Dopest Wine Bar — Solely Wine
Indianapolis has exactly one natural wine bar. It's on 16th Street in downtown Indy. It's called Solely Wine, and if you haven't made it your third place yet, that's the most fixable problem in your life right now.
Owner, Amanda McLaurin, has built something genuinely rare — a space where wine knowledge runs deep but nobody makes you feel bad for not having it. Low-intervention wines from small passionate producers across Spain, Italy, France, Georgia, Slovenia, and beyond. Flights, by-the-glass pours, bottles to take home, and a food menu that includes bacon-wrapped dates with hot honey, mini beef Wellingtons, caviar nachos, and housemade dill pickle dip that has no business being as good as it is.
Wednesday wine tastings let you explore a style or producer for a few dollars. Happy hour runs Tuesday through Friday 4–6pm with $2 off glasses. There's always something on and when there isn't, it's still the best place in Indy to sit on the cozy couch and drink something you won't find anywhere else.
📍 1102 E 16th St, Indianapolis
The Dopest Tip: Ask Amanda or her team for a recommendation. Tell them what you usually drink and let them surprise you. That's the whole point of going.
Via @indianavintagemarket
🛍️ The Dopest Weekend Event — Indiana Vintage Market, Noblesville
This weekend only — Indiana Vintage Market takes over the Hamilton County Fairgrounds in Noblesville with 40+ vendors, $5 general admission, and two full days of vintage finds that you will absolutely justify purchasing because it's vintage and that makes it ethical consumption. Reuse, reduce, recycle right?
Saturday and Sunday, August 1st and 2nd, noon to 5pm. If you want first pick of the best stuff, Early Bird tickets get you in at 11am on Saturday — which is worth every penny when 40 vendors are set up and the good pieces haven't moved yet.
📍 Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 2003 Pleasant St, Noblesville · Aug 1–2 · 12–5PM
The Dopest Tip: Get the Early Bird ticket for Saturday. Show up at 11am. The best vendors sell out before general admission even opens. You've been warned.
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