Top Things to do in Indiana
Top Hotels in Indiana
- 1. Hampton Inn Indianapolis Downtown Across from Circle Centre
- 2. West Baden Springs Hotel
- 3. Bottleworks Hotel
- 4. Indianapolis Marriott East
- 5. The Inn at Saint Mary's
- 6. Drury Inn & Suites Terre Haute
- 7. Hyatt Place Indianapolis Downtown
- 8. Ironworks Hotel Indy
- 9. JW Marriott Indianapolis
- 10. Drury Plaza Hotel Indianapolis Carmel
What to do and see in Indiana, United States: The Best Food & Drink
With beaches, boating, and salmon fishing in Michigan City and Gary bordering Lake Michigan, there is more to Indiana than might appear at first glance. The agricultural heartland even has cross country skiing and snowmobiling to go with the Cornball Express. Southwest Indiana near Evansville is renowned for the well-preserved Native American Angel Mounds State Historic Site. The largest city and state capital is famous worldwide for its Indianapolis 500 race. Even locals living in the suburbs often overlook the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Eiteljorg Museum, NCAA Hall of Champions, the old Union Station museum cluster, and downtown Canal Walk, to name but a few landmarks. South Bend is synonymous with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.
Forested Nashville’s art colony fame dates to the early 1900s when Impressionist Theodore Clement Steele overwintered in The House of the Singing Winds. It is now the T.C. Steele State Historic Site. View paintings and sculpture at the I.M. Pei-designed Indiana University Museum of Art. Attend an IU sports event or an opera, ballet, concert, or theater performance. Treat the family to The Little Nashville Opry or The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Park. For healing mineral springs, head south to Orange County, Indiana’s spa resort center.
Enjoy golf, fishing, boating, cross country skiing, snowmobiling, and ice skating in the nation’s agricultural heartland. Monticello and Rensselaer are west of Logansport and north of Lafayette. Take the family on the Cornball Express and Hoosier Hurricane at the Indiana Beach Amusement Resort in Monticello. Play boardwalk carnival games, or let the kids loose on the go-carts. Pile the family into their vehicles for an old-fashioned movie experience at Monticello’s Lake Shore Drive-In. Indulge in a weekend dinner boat cruise to hot band sounds as the Madam Carroll plies Lake Freeman.
Restaurants in Indiana
1. Country Moon Winery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 5 reviews
In these changing times, please visit our website for the most recent and accurate information regarding public hours and operations.
2. Bear Wallow Distillery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 110 reviews
We make handcrafted artisan spirits using 100% Indiana grains. Come take our "Farm-to-Fifth" Tour (starting at the top of each hour), sample our spirits, try a Moonshine Shake-up Cocktail and shop our Indiana Made Gift Shop for unique gift items. Open seven day a week 10 months of the year - weekends only in January and February.
Reviewed By JudyBFeher - Fort Wayne, United States
Fabulous! Great offerings in moonshine and bourbon whiskey for the experienced and not so experienced! Great tasting flavored for mixing drinks! Did the 6 flights and enjoyed talking with one of the owners giving us some interesting background on their startup. Nice atmosphere and outdoor seating area. Definitely worth a visit!
3. At The Barn Winery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 21 reviews
Open Friday at 4, Saturday and Sunday at 1pm. Free tastings. Award winning wines. Farm to table. Family friendly. Handcrafted-boutique winery locally owned and operated. From our farm to your table. All wine is fermented and bottled on the premises. Enjoy a glass or a bottle on the deck or patio. We have your new favorite. Carpe Vinum!
Reviewed By Ralph_Rhonda_Wright - Savannah, United States
Clean, friendly, great tasting wine, and great prices! 3 for free tastings! Try the Dragon Kiss! The peach Chardonnay was our second favorite.
4. Urban Vines Winery & Brewery Co.
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 227 reviews
Urban Vines is a winery and brewery in Westfield, Indiana. We have a beautiful tasting room where we provide hand crafted wines, beers, charcuterie and artisan pizzas. Enjoy the back patio overlooking the vineyard where we have live music every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Reviewed By KellyCW33
UV is such a cute little place with great wine and even a place for kiddos to play outside...I'll def be back!
5. Oakley Brothers' Distillery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 9 reviews
Oakley Brothers' Distillery is a unique experience. You'll find an onsite distillery, brewery, taproom, and drink lounge featuring locally sourced products to showcase the attention to detail found in all of our food and beverages.
Reviewed By HackerDB2
Absolute favorite distillery and alcohol spot. Great service, reasonable prices, and tasty food and drinks. It's all original as well so you get the best quality and won't get it anywhere else. Parking can be difficult at times but the food, cocktails, flights, and now their new points system is amazing! Spend a certain amount and get $5 off your next purchase. New beer on tap!!! These tasty beers started on 07/07/20 from Bad Dad Brewing Co. & Centerpoint. I love the events they have going on Facebook too! Although they can get busy at times, they don't take long to get you what you want. Average drink cost is $7 and food cost is at least $9. Best tasting alcohol I've ever had. Mule drinks aren't bad if you like ginger. Favorites would personally be their hot whiskey/rum cider in the past, the blackberry smash, their own bourbon cream float, and their key lime pie slushy as of 07/09/20. :) Great establishment!
6. Mad Paddle Brewery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 60 reviews
Mad Paddle is an Adult-Focused microbrewery and artisan distillery, family-friendly for families with age 13 children and above, and pet-friendly. We offer exceptional food and top-notch musical entertainment. Mad Paddle’s primary target guests are: 1) Adults who enjoy craft beer, spirits, and music 2) Families with children age 13 and above Microbreweries and Distilleries are not designed with young children in mind. As a business that is focused on craft alcoholic beverages and located in a 9,000 square foot historic building with multiple rooms and floors, we can present an unsafe environment for young children. We love dogs and require dog owners to make sure that their puppy does not become the center of attention!
Reviewed By photojour2002 - Indianapolis, United States
Nice atmosphere and friendly staff. You can taste samples before ordering. They have outdoor and indoor seating. You can also order food from nearby restaurants. We had sliders from Shooters which were phenomenal. This is a must stop for beer fans visiting Madison, Indiana. Owner & Brewer, Jerry sat and chatted with us and other patrons. We felt more like family than customers!
7. Turtle Run Winery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 86 reviews
At Turtle Run Winery, our motto is to "Produce exceptional quality wine that goes with food and friends." With over 30 wines available for free tastings, it's easy to find a wine you like. And, if you like sweet wines, we have a twist for you -- no sugar added, the international standard for making wine! Sweetness naturally from the grapes provides a clean, refreshing, fruit forward taste that's easy to enjoy. For dry wine folks, we've got you covered too! Through intricate barrel aging and blending, we are bringing back to your taste buds traditional styles of excellence from days gone by, including non-vintage wines!International award winning wine, incredibly detailed winery tours, a friendly staff interested in finding wines you like, picnic areas and wine appreciation classes and first class concerts on Sundays provide a lot of enjoyment and knowledge to you. Find out why Jim Pfeiffer, owner, winemaker, and professor of wine, figured out in the 1980's that Southern Indiana was the place to be to grow wonderful grapes to make exceptional quality wine that goes with food and friends!
Reviewed By dreaminduo - Strongsville, United States
Very friendly and knowledgeable owner’s. We enjoyed our wine tasting. Every wine we tried was amazing. Don’t miss this stop.
8. Huber's Orchard & Winery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 286 reviews
Huber's Orchard and Winery located in beautiful Starlight, IN features a Winery & Distillery, Farmer's Market, Family Farm Park, Starlight Café, Bakery, Ice Cream & Cheese Shop, and MORE!
Reviewed By KatieO591 - Shreveport, United States
I can't say enough good things about Huber's. I have many special childhood memories of this place and Thanksgiving week I had the opportunity to bring my toddler to continue in the tradition. We loved the farmers market where we purchased fresh apples and bread, fed the ducks, ate at the winery where we tried sweet potato fries and Hubers famous apple butter. After lunch we went to the Cheese & Ice cream shop where we had delicious Pumpkin Pie lattes. Overall we had a lovely family afternoon and I cant wait to return again one day.
9. Oliver Winery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 435 reviews
During COVID-19, we are following guidelines set by state and county health officials. Please see our blog for the latest news about our current offerings. Our wine experience is one of Indiana's best. In 2017, Travel + Leisure rated Oliver Winery a top 25 winery to visit in the U.S. We are Indiana’s oldest winery and one of the largest wineries in the U.S., with an award-winning winemaking team and distribution in 27 states. You’ll find an extensive but approachable wine list at the winery’s beautiful Tasting Room on Interstate 69. Taste an estate-bottled vintage from Oliver’s 54-acre Creekbend Vineyard, sample our latest Pilot Project Experimental wine or our semi-sweet Cherry Moscato, or sip a dry Oliver Cabernet Sauvignon or Sauvignon Blanc. Oliver Winery also offers special events spaces for personal or corporate celebrations, from rehearsal dinners to holiday parties. Check our website for the reserved experiences and details on current offerings.
Reviewed By richardf600 - Louisville, United States
We have visited a lot of wineries around the country but, this is one of the nicest we've been to. Known as the largest winery west of the Mississippi and one of the most beautiful. You walk to the entrance through some wonderful flower gardens with huge stones standing on end and a huge gorgeous waterfall. You enter into the tasting room and store. You can try several types of tastings or buy a bottle and some meats, cheeses and crackers and go outside and pick a table on a lovely covered deck or go sit out amount the trees. It is just delightful. We started with a short tour of the barrel room and then we chose the 8 variety tasting for the nominal price of $5 each. You are given a sheet of paper with all their wines available and you pick the 8 you want to try. You start with the dry varieties and work your way to the sweet ones. A very knowledgeable server pours you selections and gives you all the information about each one. You take your time and they do not rush you along. When you finish your tasting you are invited to purchase any of your favorites from their well stocked shelves at fairly reasonable prices. We chose several favorites and a few other essentials for home. Plan to spend a least two hours to really enjoy a tasting, a short tour and a stroll through the gardens. If you visit the area and you like wine make sure you add this to your schedule.
10. Whyte Horse Winery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 63 reviews
Reviewed By Vaydadog
My friends and I visited the winery on a Friday evening while we were in Monticello on vacation. We did the tasting which was very pleasant. The hostess was very nice and there were alot of options. The house is beautiful, and after the tasting we all purchased a glass of wine and sat on the porch. Outside they had tables set up, a nice band playing, and they had a special taco bar set up for that evening. After a bit we went back inside the house and sat at a table in the house. The house itself is absolutely beautiful. We had a great time and will be back!
