There isn't a lot of fine dining on the Southwest side of Indy, so the semi-upscale Library Restaurant & Pub on Lynhurst Avenue at Sam Jones Expressway is quite the hidden gem. It's NOT in a strip mall, for starters: the building is quite beautiful inside and out, a sort of French Provincial Mansion that belongs up North in Pretentioustan instead of in the middle of the urban sprawl of Airportland. The decor inside is simple but elegant, with chandeliers and even an art gallery upstairs, but the ambiance is actually quite casual even though the price is $$$ and the food is excellent.
The Little Woman had Beef Tenderloin pasta with Gorgonzola sauce and I had Prime Rib Manhattan, both of which were large-portioned and deeeelicious. The pasta and tenderloin medallions were tender and perfectly cooked with a very strong Gorgonzola flavor. Prime Rib is the specialty of the house, and the Manhattan is a smaller cut placed on a sliver of bread and covered with garlic mashed potatoes, gravy, and topped with onion straws. It was really, really, REALLY good, and (hold on to your seat) more than I could eat in one sitting.
We hung out at the bar after dinner, only partly because they have half-priced bottles of wine on Mondays (it was our Belated Valentine's Day dinner and we had a room in the hotel next door). Owing to the airport/office park/industrial area in which it's located, the bar draws mostly business travelers away from their homes in other cities and likely drinking on expense accounts, so the conversations were uncensored and quite lively and entertaining. If only I could've figured out a way to record them and then find out out whom to blackmail, we could have made it a profitable evening as well! (JK) ...The bar prices were not a bargain but not outrageous, either, which made this $$ guy very happy. CHEERS!
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