If you haven’t heard the news, the
International Marketplace Coalition is inching nearer to the opening of their new Global Village Welcome Center, which will feature everything from a kitchen and event space, class rooms and dance studios, and lots of museum exhibits. The IMC is a nonprofit that helps businesses get established in the International Marketplace neighborhood, which represents hundreds of countries in its coalition of restaurants and retailers that dot the 38th Street and Lafayette Road neighborhood.
Scarlet Lane Brewery chef Erin Kem and brewer Eilise Lane are putting on a three-course menu with drink pairings for their South Broad Ripple location. The spread features dishes like “Fatal Attraction” (a parsnip soup with beet puree) and Red Rum (a red drum fish entree). This is not a ticketed event and will be first-come, first-served on February 14th from 4 to 8 p.m.
Q&A: Erin Kem of Scarlet Lane Brewing Company
Beer-friendly street snacks and seasonal dishes with international influence are on tap at Scarlet Lane Brewing Company taprooms when this former R Bistro chef is in the house.
January 19, 2021
A Muncie native who helped create the weekly seasonal menus at Mass Ave’s legendary R Bistro, Erin Kem is now part of the woman-driven management team behind the culinary offerings at Scarlet Lane Brewing Company’s South Broad Ripple Tap House and Scarlet Lane Gastropub (formerly Cannon Ball Brewing) in the Kennedy-King neighborhood. When she’s not dreaming up tasty pairings with the brewery’s latest releases, she’s often reflecting on her long career and the future of women in food in the local restaurant scene.