It’s hard to keep a restaurant open. As in, extremely hard.
But amid what can feel like a revolving door in the dining scene, some Indianapolis-area restaurants have managed to stay open for decades and a handful have endured for more than a century. Today we commemorate some of those that have stuck around the longest.
First, a quick note: We’ve included eateries that have undergone name and location changes, so long as the establishment’s central theme has remained the same. That means no Old Point Tavern, the 130-year-old Mass Ave watering hole that the Cunningham Restaurant Group purchased in 2017, closed and rebooted as the semi-upscale Tavern on the Point less than a year later…