Restaurants and Dining

Indianapolis has a wide variety of restaurants which should satisfy most of your culinary tastes, and many of these establishments are located in the downtown area. If you are headed to the Circle Centre Shopping Mall there would be several excellent places to stop and sample the fare. Palomino's, the California Cafe, the Alcatraz MicroBrewery and the Rock Bottom Brewery all offer excellent food and service. (For a more complete list of Indianapolis restaurants please refer to Indy.org or Indy.com.) Establishments nearer to the IBMT Program at St. Francis Hospital - Beech Grove are the Napoli Villa Italian, Chan's Restaurant, Mary's Morninglory Cafe, Sun Shine Cafe, Egg Roll #1 and Fujiyama Steak House of Japan.

Museums and the Performing Arts

Indianapolis is privileged to have several excellent museums and galleries present in the city, as well as some standout artists in the performing arts. For persons who have a wide range of artistic taste we would suggest a tour of The Indianapolis Museum of Art, located in the northwest section of the city. For those persons who enjoy a uniquely American art form there is The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Next to the Eiteljorg is the IMAX® 3D Theatre where 2D and 3D films are always entertaining. And for those with children - or for those who are simply young at heart - there is the The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, which not only is one of the premier organizations of its kind in the country, but which also has The SpaceQuest® Planetarium and the CineDome. If you're interested in the performing arts we suggest you spend some time enjoying the sounds of The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. And if you really need to escape the city environment you can make a quick trip to The Indianapolis Zoo.

Sports

While Indianapolis is the Amateur Sports Capital of the World, we also can boast of a variety of professional sports teams. Of course, basketball is "Indiana's Game", so it seems only natural that the NBA's Indiana Pacers would call Indianapolis home. But since 1984 Indianapolis has also been home to the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, bringing football fever to the city during the fall. No city would be complete without a professional baseball organization, and in our case this would be the Indianapolis Indians. And finally, Indianapolis is host to the largest single one day sporting event in the world. By that, of course, we mean the Indianapolis 500, where attendance at the famous Memorial Day Race is estimated between 350,000 and 400,000 persons.

For Further Information ...

For more comprehensive information about Indianapolis and what it has to offer we suggest that you connect to

		Indy.org, an on-line service of the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association.
		Indy.com, an on-line service of the Indianapolis Star/News.

At these sites you'll find details on the city, homes, community services, education, health, enterainment, dining and much more.