Fermenti Artisan

I love this place! I get their soup and salad combo a minimum of 3x a week. Their menu is always rotating and always fresh and delicious. I can always count on the guys at FA to satisfy my hunger for delicious food while also fueling my body with nutritious ingredients.

This place is AWESOME!!! Went here w the bf yesterday and he became a convert also. The veggie sandwich is really good right now. They’re seasonal and local and use lots of fermented yummy things. Sunflower Seed pâté is SEW GOOD! You can buy their house brewed kefir in bulk and take home!!! Go here it’s the best place in city market!!!

I first visited Fermenti Artisan nearly a year ago at the City Market for lunch. I cannot recall the name of the side salad I ordered, but it was hands down one of the best I have ever had. The panini I ordered was super delish as well. Everything is so fresh and made to order. I love that.
Yesterday, I was visiting the Broad Ripple Farmer’s Market for the first time and they had a booth set up. They were serving a breakfast box that was full of yummy goodness! Shitake mushrooms, scrambled eggs, chorizo (optional, but worth the upgrade of $ 3) and their kraut. First of all, this dish was delicious! Secondly, it was huge and could be shared. Lastly, BEST kraut I have ever had. In fact, they sell it by the jar and I happened to spot some on the self at Pogue’s Run Grocer yesterday! Score!
If you want to try some excellent food and support some awesome folks that are trying to grow their business in downtown Indy, give Fermenti Artisan a try. You will not be disappointed. Their products are great, their menu items are great and they are such nice people… and nice people rock!

Got the grilled cheese with apple kraut. Delish. Taste buds were satisfied.

Not only is almost everything at this booth locally sourced but it is way tasty. They let you try all their wares before you buy a bottle of them. My favorite: the curtido. Tangy and slightly spicy. Man, I could eat the whole jar myself.
In terms of sandwiches, I tried their ham, raw gouda, and apple & ginger kraut on multigrain. Holy moly. I can’t even begin to describe how well everything was working in this sandwich. So many flavors that just built on each other. The ham, salty. The raw gouda, creamy and smooth. The kraut, gingery and sweet.
Go to City Market and try some… of everything. It’s well worth your time.

I could eat piles of just their kraut. I mean, c’mon… if you’re coming here and you don’t get the kraut, you’re cray!
I was drawn in by the kraut, but I was hooked with the whole package. Although you may have a bit of wait, with only one dude behind the counter making the food, it’s worth it, I assure you! And, you know it’s fresh considering he’s chopping and dicing right in front of you.
My veggie panini was perfection. Loaded with fresh veggies and kraut, grilled on whole wheat bread, it was lucky it lasted five minutes on the table. I inhaled it. I also ordered the Veggie Soup, which was very different than anything I’ve ever had. Not a bad thing in the least. It was loaded with spinach and was incredibly flavorful.
There’s nothing boring about this place. I’d trust anything was good here. So if you want unboring, you stop at this stand!

The jerk kimchi is to die for!!! buy this product and eat it!!! YUM! Keep up the excellent work FA!

LOVED my breakfast by Fermenti Artisan at the Broad Ripple Farmers Market! Farm fresh eggs scarmbled with some unexpected veggies (like squash and Swiss chard, not sure what else) and topped with goat cheese and spicy fermented veggies… OMG eating this as I strolled the market on a crisp Saturday morning is as good as it gets! All that was missing was a really great cup of strong organic coffee!

I find it hard to eat lunch anywhere else. The quality of their food is astounding. You can also purchase their cheeses & meats by the pound!

I, like Bill J, really wanted to like this place. I love local food and I don’t mind paying for it as long as it’s good. I was running late for work on Friday evening and needed a quick bite before the night shift, and this was open late (4:30 pm is late for City Market) and also a friend recommended it after I was straight up ignored by the pizza counter. I ordered in a hurry and got the bacon grilled cheese. I thought I was ordering a grilled cheese with pulled pork instead, but I said the wrong thing in my haste, which was I guess my mistake.
But the sandwich I got was their mistake. The bacon was literally nothing but fat. I like fatty bacon but there was no bacon to it, just fat. I ended up throwing at least half of an $ 8 sandwich in the trash.
I want to try the sandwich I originally thought I was ordering (again this part was totally my fault) but I am afraid to because I don’t want to waste another $ 8.

I really wanted to like this place since I fully support the local food scene. I also really wanted to like the sammich I ordered because I missed breakfast today and was really hungry.
I got the ham & cheese panini, the cheese was horseradish cheddar. It was served with mustard and kraut. Since I’m not a kraut fan, I opted to skip it.
Despite wanting to like this for 2 different reasons, it didn’t live up to expectations. The cheese might have been interesting, but there was precious little of it on the sammich. Maybe it’s just me, but if cheese is listed as one of the two main ingredients in a panini, I expect there to be quite a bit of cheese. It appeared that there was cheese only on one side of the panini and again, very, very little of it. One or maybe two very, very thin slices. The ham was local (I forget the name of the farm listed on the menu) but did not have a lot of flavor to it. The sammich tasted like a baguette brushed with a little too much olive oil and mustard… could not taste the ham or the cheese.
So maybe the kraut was supposed to tie it all together and I screwed up by skipping it? Nah, I doubt it.
I still really want to like this place, so I think I’ll give it another shot and see if my opinion changes.

I might have flinched a little when the total for my lunch was $ 10, but knowing that this $ 10 would not only go to Fermenti Artisan but local bakers, butchers and farmers eased my furrowed brow. Their Farm to Table approach makes for a perfect fit in the new City Market model.
It was a toss up between the gourmet grilled cheese and the veggie panini. With Josh’s recommendation, I opted for the veggie panini (I need a few more vegetables in my life right now anyways). I completed the meal with a cup of the Turkey Beer Cheese soup.
Veggie panini — t-​totally worth the lunch splurge. Every bite was full of surprises — oh! turnips! oh! radishes! spinach! fermented veggies! cheese! Ahh! so good!
Now, I understand why the guy behind the counter kind of gave me a funny look when he handed me not only the sandwich but the soup. Hey, I’m a big eater — what can I say? Little did I know the soup was more like a thick thick stew than soup. But, who can argue with the genius that mixed beer with cheese and turkey and called it «soup»? My only complaint about the stewp was how oily it was — you know those dishes that leave you feeling like you could take a napkin and wipe the oil off your face because it’s coming out of your every pore? Well, this was one of them. Great flavor, just super heavy.
I may not be ordering the Beer Cheese Turkey soup next time, but you can bet your bottom I’ll be haivng the tasty veggie panini again.

Hard working American men with fabulous food! I just love all the local love between the farmers !! Very very great!! THEY CAN FEED YOU TO MAKE YOUR BODY HAPPY!

Oh, PRO biotics not antibiotics!!! Great & Friendly & Knowledgeable Super Friendly Staff!!! FAB sandwiches, drinks, & meats & cheeses

The Spicy Pig Panini (Capocollo & Bacon w/​Mustard Cheese & Jerk Kim-​Chi), is one of the best sandwiches I’ve had in a long time. The perfect balance of porky/​spicy/​tart and smoky.

I eat here at least once a week!
Mark & Josh know how to please the demon in my belly.
Great meat, fantastic krauts & salads, you can’t go wrong.
I just ask them for the Facebook special it’s always amazing!

Amazing! I went to Fermenti one morning for breakfast and got a sandwich with 2 eggs, cheese, mustard and apple-​ginger kraut and was blown away. I came back that evening with friends to try dinner. We each tried a different sandwich and they were all superb.
I highly recommend checking this place out, they are bringing a new level to the city market. If Fermenti Artisan continues to stay open for dinner I will surely become even more of a regular at the Tomlinson Tap Room.

The product is not new… but the location is. I am pumped to have these guys in the City Market pushing delicious, real, healthy food. FA really cares about the product that they sell and it shows. Not only is it the prepared food, but they are going to be selling their fermented goodness, fresh breads and other tasty bits retail style. They are not able to sell their breakfast boxes in the Market (as of now) bu if you get a chance check them out at the Winter Market on Saturdays.
Buy this food and make your body happy.

OH WHAT. You know the thing about literature[/stories/films/etc.], right? Plot-​driven vs. theme-​driven? «OOH OMG THAT WAS FUUUN LOL!!!» vs. «Hm. Oh dear. My outlook has changed»? Quick bursts of enjoyment vs. slow-​marinating psychospiritual stimulation? Or whatever? Yeah, it’s not that important. Except that, like, prepared food works kind of the same way (PROFUNDITY AVERTED THANK YOU MUCH).
Fermenti Artisan is 100% theme-​driven, in that sense. And it’s a superb theme: Traditionally Cultivated/​Prepared Foodstuffs With An Especial Focus On Foods Which Make Use of Our Littlest Friends. Can you tell I’m drinking Ardbeg? No? Good. Moving on. This means that you are safe in their hands, assuming you are on board with the Approach. Or, better put, Approaches in general. If you like Approaches, which are apparently the Themes of these last few sentences.
This is going poorly. Let me try again.
Fermenti Artisan just opened last week; subsequently they served me one of the most fantastic sandwiches I have ever had. It was the best sandwich this side of Goose the Market. It was better than most GtM sandwiches I’ve had, and perhaps as good as any (I must point out that this better/​bestness was in part due to liberal use of Goose deli meats [if you can deduce what my addled brain was aiming at in the «theme» stuff above you can see how this fits in perfectly {these are the 3^rd-​level parentheses, I was taught once}]). It had two Smoking Goose meats (I’d like to say «Mortadella & ?», but I could be wrong), melted Indiana cheddar cheese, house-​made apple-​ginger sauerkraut and house-​made whole grain beer mustard. These ingredients were placed between two sides of an inverted baguette, which was pressed panini-​style (it works, trust me).
Right. I have presented two things: 1) «theme-​driven» 2) «sandwich beyond reproach». What am I trying to say, now? Oh yeah, that despite the fact that I’ve eaten but one of their culinary offerings I can wholeheartedly assure you that EVERY SINGLE THING these guys would serve you is a thoroughly sincere and stimulating example of the art of food.
Fermenti Artisan is certainly unlike any other place currently in the City Market, and there’s really a minimal overlap. Other than the fact that it’s great for breakfast/​lunch.
Finally, constructive criticism: very hard to tell from existing signage what Fermenti Artisan is all about, from a what-can-you-do-for-me-NOW-I’m-so-very-hungry standpoint. And the folks are great at inducing foodgasm; not so great at advertising its so-​very-​proximate availability. This will probably get worked out fairly quickly, since they JUST opened up, but I’m a tiny bit nervous. Consumers are so weird (cf. Super Bowl), and will drink expensive alcoholic corn (&/​or rice) urine if it’s advertised right (cf. ibid.), and I can just imagine Fermenti receiving way less than its due due to peripheral shortcomings. Which would suck, because their theme/​approach tackles an underappreciated component of world-​class food culture, and is a totally thrilling addition to the City Market/​City in General.

Yessssssssssssssssssss. The City Market now wafts with kraut! Everywhere! But guess what… it don’t stop at kraut, it starts at kraut. So these guys make kraut, sure… but they make just about everything… better.
They’ve opened up a new space in the market that’s a space I want to stand and eat my lunch at… and I do.
A full service sandwich stand — from Smoking Goose meats to cheeses & veggie sandwiches — salads, et al.
People will know them from their farmers market days… but, this, this is full swing sinisterly good. Plus… they have Kefir soda. Yeah. Kefir. Soda. In fact… Ginger Lime Kefir soda. Take some probiotics… add awesome ginger, lime, soda & boom… perfect tonic. And they have their house kombucha on tap. Yes, kegerator of ginger (rotating style) sodas and kombucha.
To me… this is the food more of this city needs, all the time.