Carmel, United States
1933 Lounge by St. Elmo
Carmel’s bar scene rewards a slower read than a big-city cocktail crawl, and 1933 Lounge by St. Elmo fits the steakhouse-adjacent lounge tradition: drinks first, dinner optional, pacing unhurried.
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Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Carmel.
Accolades in Carmel
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Carmel has 23 restaurants in our guide. Citywide, our guide counts three Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence and two exceptional wine programs. Anthony's Chophouse, in the neighborhood Carmel, and 1933 Lounge by St. Elmo, in Carmel Arts District, each hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Prime 47 Carmel, in Clay Terrace, is a USDA Prime steakhouse with an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program.
Carmel City Center has nine venues in our guide, the highest neighborhood total. Salt Carmel City Center and divvy, in Carmel City Center, pour extensive wine lists. Matador, in Carmel City Center, serves Spanish tapas with a curated wine program and house-made sangria flights. Lone Pine, in Carmel Arts & Design District, is a modern American steakhouse and a James Beard Award Semi Finalist (2026). Josephine Carmel, in Downtown Carmel, is a contemporary French bistro with an Opinionated About Dining Casual in North America Recommended (2023) award.
Wine Spectator awards and exceptional lists
Our guide counts three Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence in Carmel, citywide, including Anthony's Chophouse in the neighborhood Carmel and 1933 Lounge by St. Elmo in Carmel Arts District. Prime 47 Carmel, in Clay Terrace, has an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program with an extensive wine list.
Anthony's Chophouse
Anthony's Chophouse is a modern steakhouse in the neighborhood Carmel, with a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026). The wine program is curated and the list is extensive, with craft cocktails alongside. The menu is a la carte, and the room has views of downtown Carmel.
1933 Lounge by St. Elmo
1933 Lounge by St. Elmo is an upscale steak and seafood lounge in Carmel Arts District, with a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026). The wine program is curated, and it pours craft cocktails. It is an adults-only, post-Prohibition-inspired speakeasy lounge, serving small plates and a la carte, with private nooks, a covered patio, and firelit gathering areas.
Prime 47 Carmel
Prime 47 Carmel is Carmel's only USDA Prime steakhouse, in Clay Terrace, with fresh seafood flown in daily. Its wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive, award-winning wine list. The restaurant serves a la carte and prix fixe. It has three private dining rooms.
Curated wine programs in Carmel City Center
Carmel City Center has nine venues in our guide, the highest neighborhood count. Salt Carmel City Center, divvy, and Matador each have a curated wine program in Carmel City Center.
Salt Carmel City Center
Salt Carmel City Center is a coastal seafood and steakhouse in Carmel City Center. Fresh seafood flown in daily comes with locally sourced steaks and handmade pastas. The wine program is curated and the list is extensive, with craft cocktails. Service is a la carte, in a coastal-inspired setting.
divvy
divvy is a contemporary American sharing plates restaurant in Carmel City Center. Eclectic small plates and a la carte are both served, including corn creme brulee and tour boards. The wine program is curated, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
Matador
Matador is a lively Spanish tapas restaurant in Carmel City Center. Shareable small plates and a la carte dishes are both served in the room. The wine program is curated. The restaurant also pours house-made sangria flights and craft cocktails.
Planning FAQ
Which neighborhood has the most venues in Carmel?
Carmel City Center has nine venues in our guide, the highest neighborhood count in Carmel. Salt Carmel City Center, divvy, Matador, 101 Craft Kitchen, Charred Steakhouse & Bourbon Bar, and Hotel Carmichael Expansion are among the venues in Carmel City Center.
Which places hold a Wine Spectator award in Carmel?
Our guide counts three Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence in Carmel, citywide. Anthony's Chophouse, in the neighborhood Carmel, holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026). 1933 Lounge by St. Elmo, in Carmel Arts District, holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026).
How many exceptional wine programs are in Carmel?
Our guide counts two exceptional wine programs in Carmel, citywide. Prime 47 Carmel, in Clay Terrace, has an exceptional wine program that is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list. That list is award-winning. The program belongs to a USDA Prime steakhouse with fresh seafood flown in daily.
Which Carmel restaurants serve prix fixe or small plates?
Prime 47 Carmel, in Clay Terrace, serves prix fixe and a la carte. Small plates and a la carte are served at 1933 Lounge by St. Elmo in Carmel Arts District, at Matador in Carmel City Center, and at divvy in Carmel City Center.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Restaurants
Selected entries from the current guide for Carmel.
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Anthony's Chophouse
Anthony's Chophouse occupies a prominent corner on West Main Street in Carmel, Indiana, positioning itself within the town's growing tier of serious steakhouses. The format follows the American chophouse tradition — premium cuts, a substantial wine program, and a dining room calibrated for occasion meals. For Carmel's dining scene, it represents the anchor end of the local meat-focused spectrum.
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Josephine Carmel
On West Main Street in downtown Carmel, Indiana, Josephine earns its Opinionated About Dining casual recommendation by grounding its menu in sourced, seasonal ingredients within a relaxed but considered dining room. The format suits the broader Carmel dining shift toward quality-conscious casual rather than white-tablecloth formality. It sits comfortably in the tier of independent restaurants reshaping how Indiana's suburban dining strip is understood.
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Lone Pine
Lone Pine sits on South Rangeline Road in Carmel, Indiana, positioned within a dining corridor that has grown steadily more serious over the past decade. With limited publicly available data, the venue retains a degree of local mystique that rewards those who seek it out directly. For context on where it fits within the broader Carmel scene, the EP Club Carmel guide offers a fuller picture.
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101 Craft Kitchen
Located at 1200 S Rangeline Rd in Carmel, Indiana, 101 Craft Kitchen operates within the town's growing independent dining corridor. The craft kitchen format places it alongside a tier of Carmel restaurants that prioritise scratch cooking and coordinated front- and back-of-house service over volume-driven operations. For visitors working through the city's dining options, it represents one address worth factoring into a broader itinerary.
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Caffé Buondí
A neighborhood café on Spring Mill Road, Caffé Buondí occupies a quieter register within Carmel's increasingly ambitious dining scene. The format here is rooted in the slower rhythms of Italian café culture, where the ritual of the meal matters as much as the meal itself. For visitors working through the city's restaurant options, it represents a different kind of stop than the steakhouses and fine-dining rooms that dominate the local conversation.
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Charred Steakhouse & Bourbon Bar
Charred brings Carmel’s steakhouse conversation back to the cut: ribeye for fat and char, strip for firmness, filet for tenderness, and tomahawk for ceremony. With few public details attached to the kitchen or format, the useful reading is category-based: this is a steakhouse to judge by sourcing discipline, temperature control, sides, and how well the room supports a meat-led meal.
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Convivio Italian Artisan Cuisine
The name signals intent: Italian cooking framed through an artisan lens, where technique and sourcing carry more weight than volume or spectacle.
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divvy
Divvy occupies a corner of Carmel's City Center Drive, placing it squarely within the suburb's growing restaurant corridor.
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Eggshell Bistro
Eggshell Bistro occupies a City Center Drive address in Carmel, Indiana, placing it within the suburban dining corridor that has quietly assembled one of the Midwest's more considered restaurant scenes. The bistro format positions it in a mid-tier that values collaboration between kitchen and front-of-house over theatrical tasting menus. Current details on pricing, booking, and hours are best confirmed directly with the venue.
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Fork + Ale House
Fork + Ale House at 350 Veterans Way sits inside Carmel's growing midtown dining corridor, where American gastropub formats have found a receptive audience among the city's expanding professional population. The address places it within walking distance of the Midtown district's retail and office cluster, positioning it as a neighborhood anchor rather than a destination-only draw.
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Freeland's Restaurant
Freeland's Restaurant sits at 875 Freeland Way in Carmel, Indiana, a suburb that has developed a dining scene punching above its Midwestern weight. With limited publicly available details on cuisine style, pricing, or format, the restaurant rewards direct outreach for the clearest picture of what to expect. It occupies a specific address in a market where independent restaurants increasingly define the city's table.
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Juniper on Main
Juniper on Main occupies a prominent address on Carmel's central corridor, placing it among the downtown Indiana restaurants that draw both local regulars and visitors from the broader Indianapolis metro. The venue sits in a dining environment where the ritual of the meal matters as much as what lands on the table, and where Carmel's growing reputation for serious restaurant programming is put to the test.
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Matador
Where Main Street Carmel Settles In for the Evening There is a particular kind of restaurant that a mid-sized American city builds its dining identity around: not the special-occasion room with the white tablecloths and the wine list arranged by...
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Monterey Coastal Cuisine
Located at 110 W Main St in Carmel, Indiana, Monterey Cuisine occupies a suite in one of the city's most active dining corridors, positioning it alongside the broader wave of chef-driven independents reshaping suburban Indianapolis dining.
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Pizzology
A pizza-focused dining address on Hazel Dell Parkway in Carmel, Indiana, Pizzology sits within a suburban corridor that has developed a notably varied casual dining scene. The format centers on wood-fired or craft-style pizza, placing it in a category that rewards attention to dough, temperature, and topping restraint. For Carmel residents and visitors, it represents a reliable neighborhood option within a town that increasingly punches above its weight on food.
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Prime 47 Carmel
Prime 47 Carmel sits inside Clay Terrace, Carmel's open-air retail district north of Indianapolis, and operates within the American steakhouse tradition that now spans from neighborhood chops to precision-aged programs. The address places it squarely in suburban Indiana's most restaurant-dense corridor, where a growing cohort of independent and regional-chain dining rooms compete on sourcing credentials and execution rather than location alone.
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RIZE Carmel
On Old Meridian Street in Carmel, Indiana, RIZE Carmel occupies a stretch of the corridor that has steadily drawn independently minded operators away from the city's older commercial strips.
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Salt Carmel City Center
Salt Carmel City Center occupies a prominent address at 11 City Center Drive in Carmel's walkable downtown core, positioning itself within a dining district that has matured considerably over the past decade. The restaurant draws from the broader American contemporary movement while operating in a mid-sized Indiana city that now fields a surprisingly serious dining scene. For visitors cross-referencing Carmel against larger metropolitan tables, Salt represents a useful benchmark for the city's current ambitions.
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The Cake Bake Shop - Carmel City Center
Known for elaborately decorated layer cakes and celebration-focused pastries, it occupies a distinct tier among Carmel's dining options — closer to destination confectionery than a conventional café stop.
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Woodys Library Restaurant
Woody's Library Restaurant occupies a distinctive address on Carmel's Main Street corridor, where the dining room's library-themed setting signals a more considered approach than the typical downtown American casual. Set against Carmel, Indiana's evolving restaurant scene, it offers a reference point for the kind of neighbourhood dining that anchors a city block rather than simply filling it.
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Hotels
Selected entries from the current guide for Carmel.
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Hotel Carmichael Expansion
Hotel Carmichael Expansion is a sparse-data listing in Carmel, Indiana, so the useful reading is architectural rather than amenity-led. Treat it as a city-hotel question: how an expansion affects arrival sequence, public rooms, circulation, and the guest’s sense of place in a suburb that increasingly uses hospitality as civic design.
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Bars
Selected entries from the current guide for Carmel.
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1933 Lounge by St. Elmo
Carmel’s bar scene rewards a slower read than a big-city cocktail crawl, and 1933 Lounge by St. Elmo fits the steakhouse-adjacent lounge tradition: drinks first, dinner optional, pacing unhurried.
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3UP Rooftop Lounge
Positioned above Carmel's Main Street corridor, 3UP Rooftop Lounge brings an open-air drinking culture to a suburb that has steadily built its after-dark credentials. The refined perch and cocktail-forward format place it in a distinct tier within Indiana's bar scene, where the gap between a good drink and a great one is still being closed.
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Wineries
Selected entries from the current guide for Carmel.
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