The search for lunch in Broad Ripple usually means dodging strollers on the Monon and deciding if you want to eat indoors where the air conditioning actually works. The neighborhood’s strength is its refusal to settle on one identity, so here you get everything from a wood-fired pizza with a properly blistered crust at Diavola to a cash-only tavern burger at the Red Key that tastes like 1972.
We logged the miles between Fernando’s home-style cooking, where the owner walks the room, and the polished historic dining room of the Aristocrat. One afternoon, we even considered lunching on popcorn alone.
The options are more varied than the parking. The full list is below.
Fernando’s Mexican & Brazilian Cuisine Broad Ripple
🗺️ 6320 Ferguson St, Indianapolis, IN 46220…