Our very own Chef Andrew Miller has submitted his favorite recipe for consideration.

Vote for your favorite at the link below!

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Voting ends September 18th!

Tuesdays at Maker’s Mark® just got a little luckier.  For a limited time, you can enjoy a delightful dinner for two for only $49.95. Each dinner includes a delicious soup or salad, a savory main course, and finally a decadent dessert.

Please ask about our $69.95 and $89.95 per couple menu options as well.

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Maker’s Mark® Bourbon House & Lounge won awards for BEST FOOD & BEST DÉCOR

Zoobilation 2010 –Celebrating Cheetahs Event June 11, 2010 at the Indianapolis Zoo

Zoobilation guests help support the endangered cheetah and other conservation efforts of the Indianapolis Zoo. Try our award-winning menu today!

INDIANAPOLIS MONTHLY
03.10  —Megan Fernandez
Over The Moon
We’re crazy for a retro dessert at this booze-inspired restaurant.

At Maker’s Mark® Bourbon House & Lounge inside Indiana Live! Casino, everything is a little more chic that you’d expect from a restaurant in, well, Shelbyville. The eatery boasts sleek decor, top-notch steaks, and creative seafood entrees, but oddly enough, this truth is best demonstrated by the establishment’s moon pie. The version done by pastry chef Pete Schmutte, formerly of Puck’s at the IMA, gives the truck-stop staple a fine-dining spin, with a perfectly puffy bourbon-spiked marshmallow and chocolate butter cream frosting in a devil’s-food bun, irresistible for its gorgeous simplicity.
4300 N. Michigan Road, Shelbyville, 317-421-8261, indy-live.com. —Megan Fernandez

INDIANAPOLIS MONTHLY - THE DISH
12.08.09 - Edited by Beth A. Clayton

On Saturday We Ate At... Maker's Mark Bourbon House & Lounge, (4300 N. Michigan Road, Shelbyville, 421-8261), inside the Indiana Live! Casino, about 30 minutes from downtown. The decor strikes a "We're in Shelbyville?" note, with a chic palette of chocolate browns, large white-leather chairs, and sleek backlit surfaces. Even the butter dish-a pink slab of salt-is undeniably stylish. Sensing some hesitation, our confident server steered us away from the 60-strong bourbon menu and to a $5 glass of Robert Mondavi Private Selection Pinot Grigio. We also took his suggestion for an appetizer of lightly battered calamari drizzled with cool wasabi aioli and served with sweet-chile dipping sauce. The New York strip was cooked to charred, juicy perfection-befitting a restaurant that keeps a butcher on staff-and the flaky halibut smothered in scotch vanilla sauce and served with pistachio couscous with caramel sauce proved that the restaurant can handle less straightforward fare, too. The house pastry chef wheeled her cart over before the entrees were served, so we knew to save room for the moon pie made with a bourbon marshmallow. "Good luck out there," our server said as we headed into the crowded casino, but there's no doubt that we'd already scored the best bet in the house.

Ever Tried absinthe? How about cachaça? We scoured restaurant bars to find these must-try mixed drinks. One bit of advice: Don't drink the flower. 

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Faced with the choice of more than 60 bourbon selections plus cocktails at Maker's Mark Bourbon House & Lounge inside Indiana Live! Casino (4300 N. Michigan, Shelbyville, 421-8280), just remember - you can’t go wrong with the Perfect Mint Julep.Made in a rocks glass with muddled fresh mint, powdered sugar, water, and the restaurant’s namesake bourbon - distilled with pure waters from a 10-acre lake in Loretto, Kentucky - the drink is the personal favorite of Bill Samuels, Jr., the fourth-generation president of Maker’s Mark. If you’ve won big, buy yourself a fine cigar at the bar and savor the julep. And if you’ve lost - well, everyone needs a little sedating now and then.

- Hank Nuwer

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