STROLL
Add “esplanade” to your vocabulary, as in “a garden-like median forms an esplanade running the length of New Jersey Street.” It passes in front of the
Bates-Hendricks House, built in the mid-1800s and still one of Indy’s oldest residences. James O. Woodruff, who designed Woodruff Place, also designed this stretch.
1526 S. New Jersey St., bateshendricks.org
EAT
The tacos at
Tex-Mex are a gift to humanity. Sure, the portions are small. And, yeah, the place is inside a grocery store attached to a gas station. But the food is unpretentious, delicious, and cheap we’re talking two clams per taco. Pay on the grocery side first, then take your order to the counter. It’s carryout only, which isn’t a knock these days.