Welcome to the first installment of The Feed for 2025! The end of the year and beginning of a new one is always a time of significant turnover in the restaurant biz, and between that and our pause for the holidays, we have a lot of openings and closures to run through. (After reading, if you noticed that I missed one, please do drop me a line at [email protected].)
End-of-year Indianapolis restaurant closures:
After a little more than two years in business, Big Bear Biscuits has shuttered its location at 3905 E. 96th St., the shop announced via a sign on its door and confirmed in a January 4 Facebook post. According to the sign, increases in rent and a decline in sales prompted the closure. Its location in Brownsburg (773 E. Main St.) remains open.
Broad Ripple bar the Casba closed for good in late December, the bar announced via Instagram. Opened in 1984, the live music spot’s abrupt shuttering left residents and neighbors stunned and mourning; Black Indy Live noted the spot hosted “the longest-running reggae night in Indiana,” among other landmarks. The full cause of the closure remains unknown.
Gallery Pastry will close its last shop on January 12. The company shut down its downtown and 16th Street locations last year and said in a press release that owner Alison Keefer decided to close its final spot at 4573 N. College Ave. to give her “time to focus on my three very young boys, my family and my health.” The businesses have been plagued with allegations of misconduct and worker exploitation in recent months, claims which Keefer told the Star are “slanderous and baseless.”…