Food & Drink · Near Northside / MLK Corridor, Indianapolis
One of the oldest Black-owned restaurants in the United States, open since 1950. Founded by Ronald Jones, who at age 11 borrowed 75 cents from his mother to buy pork ribs and set up a makeshift grill at Frederick Douglass Park — just to earn money for a bicycle. He's been perfecting barbecue for over 70 years since. Known as a seven-decade Hoosier institution in a converted house-turned-castle on