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The Fork

Bluebeard

A James Beard finalist hiding in a hundred-year-old warehouse.

Bluebeard sits in a renovated 1924 factory warehouse on the southeast edge of downtown Indianapolis. Named after a Kurt Vonnegut novel and run by Tom and Eddie Battista with Executive Chef Alan Sternberg, it has been a James Beard semifinalist or finalist nearly every year since 2016. The menu changes daily because the kitchen cooks what the farms send. Bread is baked next door at Amelia's, the in-house bakery. Wine is curated by a house sommelier. The Rosewater Room seats forty under nineteenth-century charm.

What lands on your plate here did not come from a distributor. It came from a name. Bluebeard publicly lists its partner farms on its menu and website. One of them is Traders Point Creamery, twenty miles northwest. That is where this story goes next.

Opened: 2012
Chef: Alan Sternberg
Recognition: James Beard finalist, Outstanding Hospitality 2025
Partner farms listed: 14+

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The Farm

Traders Point Creamery

Indiana's first USDA-certified organic dairy. One hundred percent grass-fed. Twenty minutes from downtown.

This is where the milk, cheese, and butter on Bluebeard's menu actually come from. Traders Point Creamery is a family-owned, one hundred percent grass-fed dairy farm and artisan creamery on a working pastoral landscape just outside Zionsville. The Brown Swiss herd grazes in open fields with no synthetic chemicals, no antibiotics, no growth hormones. The milk gets handcrafted into award-winning cheeses, yogurts, and ice creams in the on-site creamery.

The farm runs a restaurant of its own called The Loft, set inside a restored 1860s barn overlooking the pasture. Visitors can take self-guided farm walks, watch the evening cow milking, or shop the farm store seven days a week. The whole operation exists to close the loop most of us never see: the same hands that raise the cow serve you the cheese.

This is the other end of your dinner.

Established: Indiana's first USDA organic dairy
Herd: 100% grass-fed Brown Swiss
Distance from Bluebeard: ~20 miles / 30 minutes
Visit: Farm store open daily 9am–6pm