Two Indiana restaurants make OpenTable's top 100 list for 2023

There's good eating to be found in Indiana, and diners have taken notice. Online restaurant reservation service OpenTable recently published its list of the top 100 restaurants in the United States, with two Indiana restaurants making the cut.

The top 100 is based on the percentage of advance reservations restaurants received this year as well as ratings and reviews from more than 12 million OpenTable users, the article specifies. Indiana was one of 26 states featured, along with Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

While every Hoosier would proudly advocate for his or her favorite spot, Our Table American Bistro in Bargersville and 9th Street Bistro in Noblesville stood above the rest in OpenTable's estimation.

Our Table executive chef and owner Joe Miller started in the food industry at age 14, working for Indy Anna's Catering in Carmel, per the restaurant's website.

Miller and his wife, Ginger, opened Our Table in November 2021, serving up steaks, fried chicken, pasta and other familiar favorites.

In Noblesville, diners can taste a variety of cultural influences in the bistro fare at 9th Street Bistro, where chef Samir Mohammad brings years of culinary expertise from his time as an executive chef and consultant for multiple restaurants all the way back to washing dishes at a diner in Taos, New Mexico when he was 12.

Mohammad and his wife, Rachel, returned to Rachel's home state to open 9th Street Bistro in early 2020, but pivoted to selling to-go meals during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, 9th Street offers a rotating menu with flavors from around the world — the December menu features Moroccan chicken and lamb ragu Bolognese — as well as tastes that are unmistakably American — see the "fried thing of the day."

There may be debate over OpenTable's selections — the service specializes in reservations, so restaurants that heavily utilize reservations likely garnered more buzz — but there's no denying diners enjoy these restaurants enough to know they need to plan ahead when they want to eat at them.

Contact dining reporter Bradley Hohulin at bhohulin@gannett.com. You can follow him on Twitter/X @bradleyhohulin.