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Mel's

Public Speakeasy

Hours & Location

110 S Delaware St,
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 550-2500

Hours of Operation

Monday - Thursday
5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday - Saturday
5:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Sunday
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Expertly Crafted Cocktails

After an evening out or dining at Commission Row, enjoy an after-dinner drink in the adjoining speakeasy below. Mel’s speakeasy offers a wide selection of wine, cocktails, and spirits.

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Food

Small Bites

  • Salt & Vinegar Pork Rinds & Waffle Chips

    $10

    French Onion Dip

  • Hamachi Crudo*

    $24

    Grapefruit · White Ponzu · Yuzu Mayo

  • Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail GF

    $26

    Cocktail Sauce · Lemon

  • Cauliflower Steak V GF

    $27

    Mushroom Au Poivre · Sugar Snap Pea · Cauliflower Purée · Pickled Red Onion · Chive · Meyer Lemon Gastrique

  • Mel's Smash Burger*

    $18

    New School American Cheese · Garlic Aioli · Grilled Onion Jam · French Fries · Hawaiian Bun

  • A-5 Japanese Wagyu* GF

    $58

  • Oysters* GF

    $24

    Mignonette · Cocktail Sauce · Lemon

  • Mussel Conserva

    $15

    Chili Marinated · Lemon · Fennel Salad · Calabrian Chili · Cereal Bread Crisp

  • Bone Marrow Brûlée

    $23

    Pickled Onion-Parsley Salad · Sel Gris · Baguette

  • Wagyu Beef Carpaccio*

    $45

    Shaved Truffle · Rosemary · Watercress · Fried Caper · Pickled Shallot · Cereal Bread Crisp · Truffle Mushroom Vinaigrette

  • 6oz Creekstone Farms Steak Frites & Eggs*

    $26

    Skirt Steak · Frites · Cognac-Green Peppercorn Sauce · Garlic Aioli

Curated Caviar Service

  • Curated Caviar Service

    $145

    One Ounce Serving · Yukon Blini · Gaufrette Potato · Chive · Egg White · Yolk Pudding · Crème Fraîche · Caper · Pickled Shallot

*Consuming raw or undercooked foods can increase the risk of food-borne illness.

Beverages

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Signature Cocktails

*Contains nuts
*Not vegan
*Contains dairy

  • Mathilde*

    $18

    gray whale gin · trader vic's macadamia liqueur · plum-blackberry-thai tea syrup · aquafaba

  • The Stunt Man

    $18

    compoveda reposado · agave · acidified grapefruit juice · grapefruit soda · lime

  • The Runner Stumbles

    $18

    rum-bar gold · probitas rum · banana-cardamom-demerara syrup · lemon · lime · compound butter

  • UFOria

    $25

    código blanco · macchu pisco · licor 43 · giffard orgeat · passion fruit purée · lime · amaro di angostura float · nutmeg

  • Seven

    $22

    uncle nearest rye · apple-carrot-ginger-marjoram shrub · honey · lemon · moscato · sorel liqueur caviar

  • Love at First Bite

    $22

    woodford double oaked bourbon · chocolate-strawberry-basil shrub · cocchi di torino sweet vermouth · chocolate bitters · chocolate-dusted strawberry

  • When a Stranger Calls

    $18

    banhez mezcal · cranberry-orange cordial · lime · cranberry · saline

  • Somebody Killed Her Husband

    $25

    toasted sesame oil washed gin gigi · contratto bianco vermouth · heirloom pineapple amaro · genziana gentian liqueur · moscato

  • Porky's*

    $18

    rosemary and duck-fat washed old forester rye · demerara · lemon bitters · maple bitters

  • The Manitou*

    $25

    aberfeldy 12 year scotch · honey-ginger-clove syrup · lemon · milk fat clarified · mulled wine foam

  • Blood and Guts

    $20

    coffee-infused 400 conejos espadin-cuishe mezcal · plantation fiji pum · campari · cocchi di torino vermouth · volcanic saline solution, grapefruit

  • Rabbit Test

    $10

    free spirit · apple-ginger-marjoram shrub · ginger beer

Martinis

  • House Gibson

    $17

    olive oil fat-washed st. george terroir gin · trincheri dry vermouth · saline

  • Mel's Martini

    $16

    aria portland dry gin · antica torino vermouth · orange bitters

Ways to Order

  • Churchill / Desert

    no vermouth

  • Bone Dry

    whisper of vermouth

  • Dry

    half ounce vermouth

  • Wet

    one and a half ounce vermouth

  • 50/50

    one and a half ounce gin or vodka · one and a half ounce vermouth

  • Perfect

    half ounce dry vermouth · half ounce sweet vermouth

  • Reverse

    two ounces vermouth · one ounce spirit

Indiana

Bottles & Cans

  • Zombie Dust

    $10

    3 Floyds Brewing, Munster, IN
    Pale Ale · 6.5%

  • Sunlight Cream Ale

    $9

    Sun King Brewery, Indianapolis, IN
    Cream Ale · 5.3%

  • El Gato

    $8

    Centerpoint Brewing Company, Indianapolis, IN
    Mexican Lager · 4.2%

  • Trash Panda

    $11

    Metazoa Brewing Co., Indianapolis, IN
    Vanilla Latte-Inspired Blonde Ale · 5.3%

  • Deduction

    $9

    Taxman Brewing Co., Bargersville, IN
    Belgian Dubbel · 8%

More Bottles and Cans

  • Stella Artois

    $9

  • Guinness

    $10

  • Miller High Life

    $8

  • Michelob Ultra

    $8

  • Stiegl-Radler

    $10

  • Athletic N/A Rotating

    $8

Wine by The Glass

Sparkling

  • Scarpetta Prosecco

    2022, Veneto, IT

    By The Glass $14

    Bottle $55

  • Argyle Brut Rosé

    2020, Willamette Valley, OR

    By the Glass $17

    Bottle $67

White

  • Kloof Street Chenin Blanc

    2020, Swartland, SA

    By the Glass $15

    Bottle $59

  • Sandy Cove Sauvignon Blanc

    2023, Marlborough, New Zealand

    By the Glass $14

    Bottle $55

  • Trig Point Chardonnay

    2020, Russian River Valley, CA

    By the Glass $17

    Bottle $67

Red

  • Kracher Zweigelt Trocken

    2018, Burgenland, AU

    By the Glass $15

    Bottle $59

  • Joseph Drouhin Bourgogne

    2020, Burgundy, FR

    By the Glass $17

    Bottle $67

  • Hedges Family Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

    2020, Red Mountain, WA

    By the Glass $17

    Bottle $67

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    • Steak, Chops & Raw Bar

    Downtown Elegance with Culinary Artistry

    Commission Row located right above Mel's Speakeasy offers guests the highest quality steaks, raw bar, and seafood artfully curated by our culinary team. The menu is created as a culinary crossroad intended to delight the palate with each and every dish. Our cuisine showcases seasonal ingredients along with a wine and spirits menu expertly paired

    Visit Commission Row

    The Story Behind Commission Row

    The Indianapolis Wholesale District has a rich history that helped establish Indianapolis as a national crossroads of trade. This evolution, which began in 1863, took Indianapolis from a small town to a large city and opened trade channels with buyers and sellers across the nation. During that time, South Delaware Street became known as “Commission Row”, a place where farmers could sell their goods through resellers that would charge a “commission” for the service. Transportation and Commerce created a hub of activity during this time period. This area thrived until The Great Depression when it quickly became an area devastated by the economics of the time. With decades of development, the Wholesale District has become more of a “Social District” where sports, arts, dining, and entertainment all are intertwined

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