Our Den

$ 5 cup of soup and $ 3 Diet Coke for lunch. Not a bowl, but $ 5 for a cup.

We ate here multiple times over a two-​week time period while my mom was at University Hospital. Service was always good and we found that we could get in and out relatively fast while taking a break from the hospital.
The cobb salad was very good although I would recommend asking for the dressing on the side as it tended to be over dressed. They were also willing to accommodate some special requests with our group including substituting salmon on the salad for no additional charge.
Other favorites included the buffalo chicken salad, turkey reuben (more burger than sandwich, but great).
Overall, nice relaxing atmosphere with pretty good food and service for a casual hotel restaurant.

I had eaten here years before when I went to IUPUI, but since then the menu has changed for the better. We had a certificate from
. we had the flat bread app w local goose sausage. I had the buffalo chicken salad w a generous portion of blue cheese. It was excellent! My boyfriend had a pasta dish and we finished with the cobbler. The service was excellent, and we will definately be back. Plus there was plenty of parking in the hotel garage that was free. This was a great deal for downtown eating.

Like everybody else is saying, excellent salads. I got the local chicken salad, and it was very fresh, very tasty, definitely recommend that. Only 4 beer taps, but only one of them was a macro, the other three were local beers, which was nice. The lady next to me got the carrot cake, which she said was amazing, and it certainly looked it. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat here, but it’s certainly not a bad choice if you’re already at the hotel/​conference center.

I was staying at University Place Hotel during the snow storm of 2010.
I still really, really wanted to go out and eat something Asian. I picked a sushi restaurant that fit my budget and had OK Unilocal reviews and I was waiting at the entrance of the hotel for their complimentary shuttle… for about, 25 minutes… until I overhead 2 hotel employees chit chat across from me saying that the shuttle is down for maintenance and is not running today. WTF!!! Well there was another group of guests that wanted to head out to town and I asked them if they wanted to share a cab with me, which they said sure why not, so the bell clerk called a cab… and we waited… for another 25 minutes or so… still no cab… the other group abandoned their plan and walked away… and eventually, I decided to throw in the towel myself and admit defeat to the snow storm.
This is how I ended up at Our Den. I really had no plans on eating at the hotel… I figured it will be overpriced and/​or mediocre.
There was another, fancier restaurant inside the hotel, but I was staying in Indy for a medical treatment for my back and was not there to vacation and splurge. So I picked the more casual and more affordable Our Den instead.
The place was quite empty with only a few other guests, mostly men, hanging out eating or drinking, staring at the TV for some sports game.
The décor had lots of reddish/​orangeish colors and the overall look wasn’t really my thing, but whatever, I was starving, I was alone, and I wanted good food. And frankly, I think this place just might be an often overlooked little gem for one REALLY GOOD dish.
The duck salad!!! HUGE amounts of gourmet salad greens with dried cranberries, feta, almonds and white balsamic vinaigrette, with a few slices of roasted duck fillet on top.
I recall someone on Unilocal mentioned this duck salad and complained about how for the price, she wanted more duck. I didn’t feel that way. I mean, granted there were only 4 – 5 slices of duck, but they were VERY good, and, with an entrée salad portion of greens, I felt that $ 11 was really quite reasonable.
I thought that I would want some carbs too so I ordered fish tacos that night as well. That dish, however, was a bit disappointing. It tasted fresh, however it lacked salt and overall flavor and this one, I felt, was $ 10 wasted. If I ever stay at this hotel again, I will definitely order the duck salad again, but probably will stick with just that or get some other dish.
I also had iced tea. The waiter was very attentive, kept checking on me and even asked if I wanted him to fill up a to-​go cup with more iced-​tea on the way out of the restaurant and back to my room. That was very sweet of him and I actually felt that it was lucky that the snow kept me in the hotel for the night :)

Friendly, nice staff.
I ordered medium rare and got medium well and couldn’t really taste the meat in the burger (prob because it was over-​cooked). Fries were ok.
Glad it was all or mostly locally sourced though.

They have very nice salads here and the spicy bbq wings are terrific. The bartender usually seems a little grumpy and the food could come out faster, but the drink prices aren’t bad and I can walk to it from campus in a hamster tube.

Good food and great service. Menu seems a bit limited. Came in here since there didn’t seem to be anything else around the hotel for dessert but they didn’t have any. So I had the crispy buffalo wings. Nice and spicy and good blue cheese dressing.

They’ve brought in a new chef, which has brought a menu change. Besides the goofy sports puns in the food names, the food has maintained a nice quantity/​quality/​value balance. The service is top notch as always.