Late Harvest Kitchen

I stopped in for a quick dinner one Saturday night (4−16−16) right as they were opening. I had been meaning to dine here for quite some time, especially since the restaurant once again made the Top 25 list in Indpls Monthly.
Being mid April, I noticed the patio was open, but the greenery wasn’t in color yet, so I filed that notion of coming back later in the summer to take advantage of the seating out there. I decided to sit in the bar area at one of the tables.
Since it was early and the dinner crowd hadn’t started making a lot of demands, I was able to get a craft beer recommendation from the bartender without having to wait for attention. I also was able to get my dinner order in to beat the rush as well.
I decided to go with the Pork Chop (10 oz?) with baked beans, bacon marmalade, house kraut, and vinegar pepper. This thick cut chop was cooked perfectly. I haven’t been a big fan of kraut until recently, so this combination with the other items encouraged me to try it even more often. Delicious.
I am looking forward to returning soon with my wife and friends.

Great service, very well priced, fantastic flavors, this is a creative venue.
A must try when u visit Indiana.

Sticky toffee pudding. That’s all I need to say. Easily top 5 desserts o have ever had. This stuff is like crack! I ate here 2 days ago and came back tonight just got the pudding. Boy is it good. Hard to describe but do yourself a favor and check this place out. Their smoked pork chops are money also. Great experience!

This place is good but it does not warrant a spot on any list of the best restaurants in Indianapolis. The menu is extremely limited and the entrees do not come with any side dishes. Of the dishes I’ve had the pork chop is the best. If you come here you must have the toffee pudding for dessert. It may be the best dessert I’ve ever had. Do yourself a favor tho and split it with someone, you ll hate yourself afterwards for finishing it by yourself otherwise.

I loved dining at Late Harvest! They have an amazing outdoor patio perfect for summertime with a fountain, fire pit, and beautiful ivy overhangs.
We had a reservation for a group of 12 and ended up sitting down more than 30 minutes after our reservation time. Luckily, they have amazing bread upon request to start with. The biscuit was my favorite with the poppyseed bread roll as a close second.
At my table of four, we split the whole fish, pork chop, ramp waffle, and potatoes Minneapolis and it was the perfect amount of food.

Good food, cute restaurant. Great patio with a garden feel. Food doesn’t disappoint– my girlfriends and I ordered every dessert on the menu– loved the sticky toffee and birthday cake the most.

The sticky toffee pudding is to die for! I had the chicken schnitzel for dinner and it was excellent. They give relatively large portions compared to other high end restaurants. The sides are huge portions so be prepared to split. We got the bone marrow fries and they were so savory and delicious! Definitely coming back!

Mixed reviews on Late Harvest. Only one in our party of three loved their entrée. The winning entrée was the Norwegian Cod on mashed rutabagas and drizzled with rosemary hollandaise sauce. They say their pork chop is the best around, but my husband was not impressed. The other low rated entrée was chicken wrapped in prosciutto. It was very bland. The service however was exceptional and we really enjoyed the appetizer, salads and dessert.

Wow, seriously how did I not know this place existed?! If you can’t decide if you want to check the place out or not; think no more. When you arrive immediately turn to your right upon walking in the door and grab a table in the bar. The two gentleman that will hopefully be working at the bar will take good care of you. The one even has a drink names after him on the cocktail menu. Ask him about it. But if you don’t order that drink then you need to order the Passport cocktail, quite tasty!
For dinner you won’t be able to go wrong with anything on the menu. The pork-​chop was delicious as well as the fish special. If you are worried about it coming «looking like a fish» don’t worry because the bartenders will take care of chopping the head off and deboning it for you. Wow was it good! Then I promise you when I say don’t leave without dessert. Order the sticky thing… I can’t remember what it was officially called but they’ll know what you are talking about. Pure heaven on a spoon!

Highly recommended.
With Real Estate, it’s all about location. With restaurants, it’s all about the chef!
Drive through the upscale area of Castleton Northeast of Indianapolis on any Saturday night, and you’ll find waiting lines of up to 2 hours for most restaurants in the malls just off or along East 82cd and 86^th Streets. This restaurant is located next to the Old Navy store in a mall just off the intersection of East 86^th Street and River Crossing Road.
We stopped in on a Saturday night and the place was full. Our wait time was about 15 minutes.
Offerings off the menu are limited and quite pricey. But portions for their keystone entrees, notably the Ribeye and Pork Chop, are of good size, perfectly cooked and feature scrumptious seasonings and accents — all the hallmarks of an excellent chef behind the scenes. All in our party raved about the quality of the food. Service was superb.
But be prepared for sticker shock: $ 42 for a Ribeye and $ 27 for a pork chop. What you’re paying or here is the chef. And it’s worth it if you’re hungry, want a good-​sized portion, an excellent meal and are willing to pay for it.
This place is truly excellent and worth a stop. The only reason we do not assign a 5-​star rating is because the prices are too high and out of line for what we see with this class of restaurant in our travels. Our reviews are all about price performance ratios.
Having said this, there’s no doubt about it – entrees here are excellent.

This is a very nice restaurant. Stopped by for a pre Valentine’s Day dinner on a Thursday because open table looked like it was all booked for the weekend.
Started with the caviar pie. It is a pie slice of cream
Cheese with maybe five different varieties of
Fish eggs on top. Ok the side you have something like toasted bagel chips and traditional garnish (onion, egg, capers).
Main course for me was the lobster which was Pan roasted with aromatics like citrus.
Would come back!

I have been here several times and always leave satisfied. My only complaint is they are not open for lunch! The food is always fantastic! Local, fresh and always leaves your taste buds tingling with enjoyment. The service is wonderful, they are knowledgable and really cater to your needs. They make you feel as though you are the most important customer. I have enjoyed many glasses of wine here as well, they have a nice selection. The patio feels secluded while being in the middle of a ton of shopping. Definitely recommend visiting Late Harvest!

Loved it!
We had dinner on a weeknight and it was perfect! The service, the ambiance, the food… All wonderful!
My date & I split a wedge salad — delicious! For dinner I had the salmon with grits and he had their famous pork chop. It was huge! We could have split that too. But I am so glad I got the salmon!
Dessert was the family’s toffee pudding. It was served a little too warm bit tasted delicious. So rich!

Had an exceptional experience dining here with my ex-​boss. What a choice of venue made, pat on my own back!
I started off with the Passport drink due to multiple readers recommending it. It’s vodka drink flavored with basil. While I could taste the basil they didn’t put the leaves in the drink. I think I’d have liked to see that. I also thought the drink should have been stronger.
Note that you need to ask for their bread as it says in the menu. My server was courteous enough to notice that I was waiting for my boss and asked me if I would like so bread. Good job!
After my boss arrived we were given a tour of the menu and brief talk about how the ingredients are carefully sourced. We tried the fried green tomato flatbread which was awesome.
For my meal I tried the rabbit biscuits and gravy which tasted awesome! Biscuits and gravy is not an easy thing to innovate upon, and the restaurant has done it quite well. There are various hidden flavors, likely rosemary and others; the gravy was excellent not thick, just moist enough. The rabbit meat was a little hard to find though :).
We finished the meal with the Unilocaler recommended sticky toffee pudding. The server was smart enough to advise us to share it. It’s huge but it’s insanely delicious. How I wished there was one more scoop of ice cream on the top.
About the ambience, The music in a classy place like this should be discreet and soft. That was not the case. Also the patio looked amazing but only if I had spotted it earlier.
Overall a great experience:
Service: 5
Food: 4 (off for the liquor and scarce amount of rabbit meat)
Ambience: 4

This is one of my favorite restaurants on the north side. The restaurant is bright and modern with an awesome patio. The patio is the perfect place for a cocktail or light dinner on a cool summer night. It’s like a tiny oasis in the middle of a mall parking lot. It feels like you are in a garden in the country.
I am a beer guy. I rarely choose a cocktail over a pint but this place has some of the best cocktails I’ve ever had. They do some very creative things. Their Rosemary lemonade cocktail is my favorite but the jalapeño martini /​margarita thing is pretty awesome too.
The food is seasonal and the menus constantly changes. I love the pork belly appetizer and the shaved brussels sprout salad. The caviar pie is rich a decadent.
Their pork chop is a perfect staple dish. It’s a hearty porch chop the size of a t bone steak with a bacon marmalade on top. There are very few things better than pork topped with more pork. They also do some amazing things with fish. There are always so many awesome options it’s hard to decide what to eat

Everything is delicious here. Food is amazing from appetizers to desserts. You can’t go wrong! Jalapeño bone marrow fries, rabbit, and sticky toffee pudding.
Don’t think twice, eat here. Oh, and sit outside and ask for Jason to play his blues music.

The Service: When we first arrived, no one was at the front to greet us. It took five minutes for someone to appeared randomly out of a back room and ask if we had reservations. We did, so we were then seated and met our friends. Luckily, they were seated quickly due to our reservation.
A nice gentlemen came over to fill our water glasses, then, we had to wait five more minutes for our waiter to come over. He was very loud and went on about how the menu changes every day and about what was being served that night (even though the menu was exactly the same as when my husband looked it up weeks ago). It just seemed like a pretentious speech that went on forever. We emailed ahead, as we do with many restaurants to see if the chef is up for the challenge of making us a vegan dish. Many chefs we’ve asked to do this actually are really excited and up for the challenge. Late Harvest’s chef said that when we come in to ask the server what can be made vegan, and that he would make us up something special. We told the server this, and he pretty much ignored our request saying since there is one vegetarian dish on the menu, the chef would not make something special.
When we asked what could be made vegan, the waiter didn’t seem to know much about the menu in terms of animal ingredients. We went back and forth for a few minutes trying to figure out what we could and could not eat. First he’d say something could be made vegan, and the a minute later, he would correct himself. He had to ask the chef several times and literally a few minutes before our food arrived, he said, «Oh, sorry, The Potatoes Minneapolis are made with a clarified butter. We can just fry up some potatoes in canola oil.» We were starving at this point and agreed.
The Worst Part of the Night’s Service: The main thing that stuck out to my husband and I was when our waiter refilled my husband’s water glass. He reached over the table with his arm literally a centimeter away from my face. I had to back up, and he never said «Excuse me» or apologized. For a restaurant that has «daily» specials and where the waitstaff take the effort to remove your salad forks, we were flabbergasted when this happened.
The waiter came by and asked us if we wanted dessert and my husband said, «I’m sure there’s probably nothing for us to eat.» The waiter laughed and said, «Yeah, we should have a sorbet as it’s summer, but we don’t. We replaced it with a sundae, sorry limited menu space.» Then, he gives us one check. He never even asked us if we all wanted to split it, so we have to wait more to get his attention. He rudely and loudly look our cards and said, «Which one goes on what card.» We explained it to him, and we finally got separate checks.
The Food: We ordered three things: Potatoes Minneapolis (which were switched last minute for French Fries), a side of vegetables, and the North African Vegetable. Overall, it had little flavor. With how much the waiter seemed to brag about how fancy the food was, it seemed like the food should’ve at least had some seasoning in it besides salt.
Let’s break it down by dish:
–French Fries: Now, we don’t expect french fries to be spectacular. They’re simply fried potatoes, but at least don’t over cook them. It seemed like the grease that they were fried in was burnt. Sadly, they just threw a couple slices of raw jalapenos on top with a ton of salt. No other seasoning. At least it was a large portion? Sigh.
–North African Vegetable Tagine Couscous with golden raisins, feta cheese, apricot chutney, charmoulas: We got this without feta and and butter. We were so excited to try this. Ugh, what a disappointment. While the portion size was large, they barely gave us any couscous or apricot chutney. The vegetables were fresh and cooked well, and we while enjoyed the sweetness from the apricot sauce, the dish was so flavorless. This type of dish calls for mix of African spices, and it didn’t have any of that. What a let down… Not worth $ 18 dollars at all.
–Roasted Vegetables: These are the same vegetables that come in the North African Vegetable Tagine, seasoned the same, so if you bought that, don’t waste your money here. The vegetables include, carrots, mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, and green beans. We didn’t expect the vegetables to have a strong flavor, but these were just so greasy and bland. The carrots and the cauliflower were the best part of it.
Overall, if it wasn’t for our nice friends, it would’ve been a terrible night. The rude waiter was loud and made a huge deal that we were vegan. He lacked the manners and skills to be a good waiter. We never felt welcome. The service was slow, and the food was bland and overpriced. One dish and two sides with tip for $ 45 is not what we want to spend our hard earned money one, especially considering we both felt sick afterwards from everything swimming in oil.
Needless to say, we won’t ever be returning.

This place has it all. I mean ALL. Where to begin? The food.
The food is spectacular. I’ve run the menu a bit in my handful of dinners plus a few carry out occasions. I have yet to find an item that didn’t make my eyes pop out of my head. Delicious is an understatement. What’s my favorite you ask? Drop a pin on the menu. There are a few things I haven’t at least tried, but not many.
The Pork Chop was out of this world. Perfectly tender and I can’t even tell you how intense my love is for the bacon marmalade/​kraut that accompanies. The Rabbit Biscuits and Gravy practically turned me into Elmer Fudd. I’m always thinking about chasing that dish down. I need it now. In my core. The General Tso’s Pork Belly. The vegetables almost outshine the pork belly. How does that happen? Nothing puts pork belly in the corner. Except maybe those vegetables.
The entrée portions are pretty big, but don’t skip one of the shareable sides. The Potatoes Minneapolis is absolutely divine. Take it home and in the morning fry up an egg to put over that baby. Best breakfast you could wish for. (I should note that was a server’s suggestion I will be endlessly grateful for.) Also, never, ever, ever, walk out of LHK without at least a bite of the Sticky Toffee Pudding. Who am I kidding? Who can have just one bite of this mouth heaven?
The service — flawless and fun. These guys know their menu and have opinions. Ask them if you can’t decide. They won’t steer you wrong. Also, they enjoy being right. Don’t forget to tell them how right they were when they stop by to enjoy your happy smile. They deserve it.
The restaurant itself is simply gorgeous. I love the intimacy of the bar and the elegance of the patio the best. Not a bad seat in the house here. Go grab the first seat you can. Order everything. Die happy.

This is going to be a rollercoaster review, has it’s ups and downs.
First the place: very elegant and romantic, date-​worthy, awesome interior, love the walls of booze, the place settings, the view out the window, the patio, simply beautiful.
The service: friendly staff, very attentive, we had a large group and all the separate checks were correct, even separated dishes for a few that shared instead of just bringing extra plates, lots of water refills and clearing of the dishes.
The food: small portions, high prices, trendy of course, but the quality and taste experience was lacking, it was actually just bland. I had the hand-​cut rigatoni, and the dish was rather bland, and small, very small. The worst part was the Rigatoni itself, there was nothing delicate about these things, they were tough and chewy (and I do like al dente, which this was not), too thick and doughy altogether disappointing. the other guest were equally uninspired by the offerings here.
The Sticky Toffee Pudding: The one redeeming dish in this place. This is heavenly and 3 times the size of the entrée, or so it seemed. I would actually come back just to have this dessert along with some coffee.
Summing up, everything but the food is great here, BUT isn’t that the reason you go to a restaurant? I am still baffled how a kitchen can produce this awesome dessert and cannot get tasty entrees on the table???

I had such a wonderful time at Late Harvest!
The restaurant is gorgeous, the wait staff are friendly and knowledgeable, and the food is out of this world. We went here for Northside Nights and it was a great experience. I started out with a Goose Island Sophie ($ 8) as we decided what we wanted to eat, and had an Old Fashioned cocktail midway through the meal with Maker’s Mark ($ 12). The drinks are a bit expensive, but why not live a little at such a nice restaurant. We had three courses, first starting out with a shaved Brussels sprout salad with sieved egg, almonds, Parmesan, and a citrus vinaigrette. It was great! Took lots of chewing but tasted great. For the main course, I picked the pork cheeks with vegetable risotto and pine nut gremolata. Out of this world! It was SO tasty. I highly recommend it. We ended on a delicious sticky toffee pudding that I’m still thinking about right now. The inside of the restaurant is beautiful and there’s even an expansive outside eating area with a fireplace and sunset viewing. Late Harvest is the perfect place for a first date or celebration.