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    Shelby Street Tavern

    4.3 (10 reviews)
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    Food and service was great. Enjoyed the laid bs l atmosphere. Will definitely return.

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    Cool little place with a great vibe, awesome staff, and great food. It's really that simple but yelp is making me add more characters

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    Excellent bartenders/very personal. Clean. Upstairs speakeasy. Food is good. Very welcoming.

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    4.1(60 reviews)
    4.4 miHerron Morton Place, Old Northside
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    Wonderful Gay Establishment, wonderful Staff which are always friendly and helpful, the Drags shows…read moreare very entertaining, the Female impersonators are beautiful friendly and very nice to watch. Unfortunately I don't drink alcohol any longer so last Saturday 09/12/2026, I asked one of the friendly bartenders to make me a non-alcoholic drink which consisted of orange juice and cranberry juice I guess you could call it a Mocktail. It was pretty awesome. I've actually been going to Greg's place off and on for many many years even back when it was our place. I guess you could call it a friendly gay neighborhood bar I guess I gave version of the bar that was on TV called Cheers, if you want to do compare it to any other place to hang out they have darts pool tables a nice patio and there's an overall friendly place to be. I don't know the owner but I'm sure he's very nice and very awesome himself. So I'm definitely giving Greg's Indy a five-star review and five thumbs up. Don't have any pictures to post for the next time I'm there I'll take some and edit this post. So you're in the neighborhood stop by have a drink maybe play some pool or darts and just tell the bartenders the staff what a wonderful and awesome job they are doing. ‍‍‍‍

    Last night was my second time at Greg's. We were there to see Darlene Mitchell who came in third…read moreplace on Season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race. The experience is so much fun! The DJ is great and gets the crowd dancing. Definitely support your local Drag scene and culture. Make sure to bring cash though for tipping the Queens but also because that's all they accept for drinks. I did not love the drinks either last time so I had something out of a can last night. I wouldn't recommend a vodka cranberry or espresso martini. Overall a good time if you know what to expect.

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    3.8(31 reviews)
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    My girlfriend are on a quest to visit all the lesbian bars in the country, and luckily my sister…read moregoes to school in Bloomington. The weekend we went happened to be Bloomington Pride, so this place was packed. A fun mixture of college students, 20 something's, and older folks. You enter through a tall fence off of an alleyway, so I'm guessing it's challenging to find if you don't know where you're going, but that's part of the fun. Of the 4 lesbian bars we've been to, this place wins for best decor hands down. We're talking zebra print walls, stuffed unicorn heads, yonic art, glow in the dark paint. Great vibes. They have a super cute outdoor patio as well, and I loved the little food truck on the patio that opens at 9 pm! Great waffle fries and hot sandwiches. Nothing hits as right as hot cheese when you're drunk. They have tons of fun specialty drinks on a menu behind the bar! Also a great mocktail menu for the sober community! Everyone was super welcoming in this space. The one complaint I have is the Dj... we came here to dance the night away and barely made it to 11 pm because the DJ didn't play any recognizable songs or songs with a dancing beat. There were only around 10 people on the dance floor at a given time. On the other hand, this is the first lesbian bar I've been in that has had an operational dance floor with anyone on it, so that's a win. I can't wait to come back again the next time I visit Bloomington!

    Ok. Im biting my tongue some in this review. While i personally still do not agree with charging…read morefor mixers, i absolutely agree this place needs to do whatever is necessary to keep their doors open. Its a safe place to foster community of any kind. They support so many local organizations it makes my head spin. I do know the owners on a personal level. That doesnt sway my 5* vote. They are true women who do care. It is undeniably the best place to dance in BLM any day of the week. They do have great drink specials. Some of the bartenders make the best drinks in town, and its not over priced. Gay, straight, anywhere in between has a home here. Come join us.

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    Metro

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    3.8(114 reviews)
    3.5 miChatham Arch
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    I went early to get dinner with a friend. The mushroom Swiss burger is to DIE for! The chef came…read moreout to ask how the food was. So sweet! You can tell the food is made with passion and love! Perfect fries! So crispy and golden perfection! The fried mushrooms are also fantastic! Also a great place to go for a mocktail that won't cost you an arm and a leg! We sat at the bar and chatting with the bartender. Super great staff! It does get busy later in the evening! At least on weekends! And there will eventually be a cover charge! If you're there before that time then no cover needed! But awesome food! Cool vibe!

    As a member of the LGBTQ+ community in Indianapolis, I've supported Metro for years under the…read moreimpression that it was a safe, inclusive space for everyone. Unfortunately, that welcoming facade is completely fake. The blatant bias and discrimination against Black gay men here is unacceptable. I've repeatedly dealt with top-level bartenders who treat me with complete hostility, ignoring me to avoid taking my order or flat-out refusing to serve me altogether. To make matters worse, on one visit I went upstairs and specifically ordered and paid for a call brand of liquor, only for the bartender to overcharge me and serve me cheap well liquor instead. When I've tried to order, a bartender has explicitly told me I had to go order from a different floor because he and his coworker "run things" at their station and refused to serve me. Why charge patrons entry at the door just to turn around and pull these biased tactics at the bar over personal issues with someone you don't even know? He has no problem doing this right in front of other customers because management lets it slide, making it clear that discrimination against Black patrons is tolerated. Instead of addressing whatever personal issue he has like a professional, this bartender has even gone as far as telling other staff members not to serve me either. The truth is simple: Metro only cares about Black gay patrons when they can profit off us, but given the chance to deny us service with zero accountability, they will take it every single time. They've shifted their target demographic over the years anyway, so take your money elsewhere. Spend your Black gay dollars at venues in Indy that actually value, respect, and welcome you.

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    3.9(21 reviews)
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    Don't let anyone tell you different. Mike's Speedway Lounge is a decent place to celebrate a 16th…read moreanniversary, no matter what that 16th anniversary is. (OK, maybe not the anniversary of your sobriety.) It's located on 16th Street in Speedway, so you have numerology in your favor. It's mellow and laid-back, like the number 16. (No one thinks about the number 16, so it has no responsibilities. The number 16 doesn't have to do any heavy lifting like 15 or 20.) It has decent food. You can really just relax at Mike's and settle into the hazy fog of canned beer and fried foods. This bar opens at noon, and like a degenerate fiend, I was there right when it opened. A guy who seemed like a regular sat down at the bar not too long after I grabbed a table, and a beer was placed in front of him before he even had time to arrange himself on his barstool. Then, wordlessly, a basket of food soon followed. Mike's Speedway Lounge is that kind of place: It's where everyone knows your name, and if you're lucky, your beer and food will materialize in front of you with little to no effort. This was my first time visiting, though, so nothing materialized in front of me. That said, the service was excellent. There was one woman working when I visited, and she was opening beers, taking orders, cooking, settling tabs, dealing with deliveries and wiping tables all by herself. She also had time to tell me about the length of her father's grass, and that was a pleasant conversation. By the time I left, there were several people at the bar chatting with the server and each other. It was a nice and friendly atmosphere. Speaking of opening beers: There are no beers on tap here. Zero. All of the beer is in cans or bottles. They do have a lot of liquor, though, so they can make you a little something, if you want. The food is OK and what you'd expect for a bar. Burgers and sandwiches come with fries, which were excellent. Mike's serves crinkle-cut fries, and they are perfectly fried, so they are crispy on the outside but soft and mealy on the inside. I'm a patty melt person through and through, so that's what I got. The patty melts at Mike's are served between slices of marble rye bread, which was a nice surprise, but the cheese is American, which isn't my favorite. We also got the Mike's Famous Spanish Burger, which is a super thick burger patty with tomato sauce and bell peppers. Apparently, it tastes like a stuffed pepper made into a burger. So depending on where you stand with stuffed peppers, you will either love this burger, or feel like you need to urgently use the restroom after you eat it. Your mileage may vary. There's a pool table here, as well as a digital juke box, a claw machine with twisted things in it (I can't even say what those things are, because Yelp would probably flag my review), a racing video game (because Indy 500), and a few machines that dispense pull tab tickets. This is an old-school bar for sure. The only thing missing is the clouds of cigarette smoke. This is a no-smoking bar!

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    4.4(98 reviews)
    1.5 miBates Hendricks
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    I was in town for a convention and staying at an AirBnB nearby. A couple nights we didn't want to…read morego out, so we went to the vault. It is a modest size bar. You enter through a speakeasy type door. I'm not a huge fan of these but it is fine. Inside there is a decent sized bar and a mixture of different table sizes. When our group went in person the service was just horrible. The saving grace was that the food was outstanding. Another night I just did pickup. Again the food (wings and fries) was outstanding. The food was ready a little bit after the projected time, but not egregiously so. So overall great food, decent atmosphere, but the service could be better. This seems to be a consistent complaint across reviews, so hopefully the managers/owners are paying attention and can improve things.

    We were a bachelorette party that attended the restaurant on March 28, 2026. There were two girls…read morethat had gluten allergies and we made it known to the server. There were two menu items that we inquired about the ingredients and if they were gluten free. The server asked the cook and we were told they were gluten free. Everything else they ordered was marked GF on the menu. Both girls ended up sick and one ended up in the ER with gluten contamination. Staff needs to be better trained. This could end up being a deadly mistake. Think twice if you have food allergies before dining here.

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