On the Menu: Toppers Pizza to open Friday, Orbit Room open for lunch
Toppers Pizza will open at 212 S. Indiana Ave. on Friday. The pizza chain is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. with 71 restaurants in 21 states. The Bloomington restaurant is the second location in Indiana for Toppers, with the first in Indianapolis near the IUPUI campus.
Toppers will be open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. and offer take-out and delivery service, as well as online ordering through its app. To celebrate the grand opening, Toppers will offer buy-one, get-one-free pizza (any size) from April 14-23.
In addition to pizza, Toppers' menu features signature wings, both cheese, savory and dessert "stix," and specialty sides of cheese curds and mac and cheese. Its house pizzas include Buffalo Chicken, Ragin’ Pepperoni and Mac ‘N Cheese. Toppers also features “plant-powered” recipes.
"I'm excited about opening our newest Toppers restaurant in Bloomington. It is thrilling to know that the pizza lovers in another city are about to meet their new favorite pizza place,” said CEO Scott Gittrich, who opened his first pizza shop in 1991, in a news release.
Cup & Kettle hosts a tea party April 30
Cup & Kettle Tea Co., at 208 N. Walnut St., Suite 100, is partnering with local chef Abel Garcia of Hoosier Bistro to offer a one-of-a-kind tea and food pairing experience with three times — 9 or 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. — on April 30.
The special five-course brunch will begin with chamomile lavender scones and chamomile lavender tea with rosehips followed by a dish of whipped goat cheese, bacon bits, tea-infused syrup, local figs, blistered tomatoes, herb oil, fried shallots on a toasted baguette and topped with micro greens. Third course will be tea-infused truffles served with green tea with ginger and apricot. Next will be avocado toast that begins with brioche, topped with spired sunflower seeds, a soft-boiled egg, cilantro vinaigrette, radish, red onions and avocado spread. Dessert will be petit fours served with sparkling mango turmeric tea.
To reserve a seat, go to cupandkettletea.square.site/ and scroll down to the "Events" section to pick a time.
BB's Market launches new breakfast items
On Monday, BB's Market launched a new breakfast menu. Current favorites like biscuits and gravy and breakfast sandwiches are joined by country-fried steak, pancakes, waffles, overnight oats, skillets, and more. BB's offers unique, made-in-house meat items in the market, and has broadened its menu to highlight some of them, including blueberry breakfast sausage links and house-smoked bacon and Canadian bacon. Breakfast is served from 6 to 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and BB's may add Sundays soon. BB's Market breakfast is available for delivery through Driver on Deck and DoorDash.
Orbit Room now open for lunch
Orbit Room is now open for lunch on Friday and Saturday. Offering creative takes on all-beef hot dogs such as The Lee Ranaldo, which is topped with garlic fried cheese curds, apple and jalapeno relish and date chutney and the Fang Banger, which has pickled beets, fig balsamic aioli and garlic whipped cheese, the Orbit Room opens at noon both days. Orbit Room is all ages until 8 p.m. at 107 N. College Ave., Suite 001, which is underground.
Bloomington Chocolate Company offers Chocolate 101 class
Bloomington Chocolate Company is offering a Chocolate 101 class designed to teach the basics of chocolate production and train your taste buds to identify a quality chocolate. The class covers how chocolate is made and the difference between 60% and 80% chocolate, and includes a sampling of chocolate varieties from dark to white and instruction on rolling your own chocolate truffles, which participants will take home. Happening April 22 at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $35 per person. Call 812-323-3073 to register.
Btown Menus and Papa Murphy's are gone, but you still have options
A visit to the Btown Menus website delivers no food, just a message that the service has closed, and the Papa Murphy's storefront in the Southside Kroger plaza is dark.
Not to fear: Driver on Deck offers delivery from area restaurants and food trucks, and there's still DoorDash, GrubHub and Uber Eats. As far as take and bake pizza, Aver's offers take and bake and you can get ingredients to make your own pizza at home from Pizza X. Check with your favorite local pizza place to see what options they offer.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Toppers Pizza to open, Orbit Room, BB's Market offer new items
