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The Broad Ripple Gazette
Vol. 11 No. 2
Including the Cultural Districts and Midtown: Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, and Meridian St.
In This
ISSUE
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Jan 24 - Feb 6, 2014
- Construction update Pg. 2 ‑ Now & Then Pg. 6 ‑ Open Mic Night Pg. 9
Brugge owner Ted Miller opens Outliers Brewing Outliers Brewing held a grand opening party at the Mass Ave District micro-brewery on January 17. Hundreds packed the brewery to celebrate Ted Miller’s new venture. Ted (above, pointing in checked shirt) is co-owner of Brugge Brasserie in Broad Ripple.
A little Taste of Havana on the Avenue
Above: Attendees played Frisbee Golf to win drink tickets. Left: Mr. Kinetic DJ’d from atop the fermenting vats.
By Mario Morone
mario@broadripplegazette.com
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Jorge Chalgub and his daughter, Dayana Mireles, co-own Taste of Havana, which is located at 815 Broad Ripple Avenue. Combining their Cuban culinary skills, they opened their restaurant last fall and have quickly attracted a loyal clientele. “My father and his family left Cuba in 1960. He worked in the restaurant business for over 20 years, then took a break for a few years and then decided to return to the restaurant industry. In Miami, he started out as a dishwasher and worked his way up to regional Research & Development Manager of Bennigans Restaurants. He designed a famous restaurant in Miami called Monty Trainers and brought a popular restaurant, La Carreta, to the Miami International Airport where he worked before moving to Indianapolis,” Ms. Mireles explained. “When I was a student at Florida International University, I started working at Bennigans Restaurant. They offered me a position in their management training program. I was division manager of a management company, Sirgany International. We used to manage the food and beverage area of the Miami International Airport. Miami is where the Cuban culture has been preserved. You see more of the Cuban culture there because it has been lost in Cuba itself,” Chalgub noted. “I was going to Indianapolis University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) and since my father left the trucking business, we thought about opening a Taste of Havana restaurant. We couldn’t find a good Cuban 815 Broad Ripple Ave [H4] sandwich in town, so we opened Taste of Havana,” she said. (317) 559-4369 “So far, we’re really happy with the www.tasteofhavanaindy.com results. We really did not have an initial idea of what we wanted to do, but when we saw the location in Broad Ripple, we had a concept of what we wanted to do. We try to make our sandwiches as authentic and as high quality as we can. We have been welcomed very much in the neighborhood. We have found out that there are a lot of people here from the South Florida area,” Chalgub added. “Our most popular and most traditional item is the Cuban sandwich that comes in three sizes. The Cuban is made of roast pork, sweet ham, Swiss cheese, mustard and pickles. We roast our own pork and it is marinated heavily. Marinating the ingredients gives it that authentic taste. We have the roasters on all day long and we try to make it as authentic as we can, starting with the bread. The bread is one of
the most important parts. Cuban bread is made from a two day process. After each ingredient you put into the mix, you let it rise with the yeast. It’s such a soft bread and the lard gives it a flaky crust. Even though our cuisine is mostly non-vegetarian, we created a sandwich with roasted veggies,” Ms. Mireles mentioned. “Our vegetarian sandwich has zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, onions, peppers, tomatoes, basil, oregano, garlic and extra virgin olive oil. We notice that a lot of vegetarians like spicy foods, so we have a homemade chipotle sauce that a lot of people like. We make our black bean soup from scratch,” he described. Some of their other sandwiches include Elena Ruth (turkey, cream cheese, strawberry or raspberry preserves), Pan con Bistec (thin cut steak with grilled onions, potato sticks, lettuce, tomato and mayo), Sandwich con Chorizo (Spanish Chorizo – not Mexican, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard) and Havana Yacht Club (ham, turkey, Spanish Chorizo, bacon, Swiss cheese, provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo). Taste of Havana’s desserts and other delicacies include Pork Wings (a quarter-pound
See HAVANA pg. 3
1 Outliers party
5 BR Brewpub Quiz
9 Random Rippling open mic 12 Random Rippling Orange
17 Business Directory
1 Taste of Havana
6 Broad Ripple Museum
9 Random Rippling Printext
2 Random Rippling constr.
6 Poetic Thoughts
10 Hidden History
14 Random Rippling E+D
21 Old Town Minutes
3 Calendar
7 Local Contacts
10 Sudoku
14 Random Rippling Big Hat
22 Gettin’ Ripped in Ripple
4 Buzzing Around Town
8 Classified Ads
11 Where in the Village?
15 Historic Ad
23 Right in my Own Backyard
4 Mistakes winner
8 Public Notices
11 Frog’s Random Rippling
15 Crossword
23 Church donation
5 Random Rippling Periwinkle
9 Wine Scene Jill A. Ditmire
12 Random Rippling Fazoli’s
16 Round the Ripple
13 Random Rippling Glendale 18 Maps