Cas puts on her foodie cap

So, uh, it's been a little too long since I did any sort of blogging about Indy food items/news and some stuff I can't put off blabbing about any longer.

For one thing: Neal Brown is opening up a pizza joint: Pizzology. I should've shouted this one from the proverbial rooftops the second I caught wind of it, but frankly...ehhh, I have no excuses. Sorry. I really don't want to talk about it, I just want to stick it in my mouth. (That's what she said.) I've seen the tweets, heard the murmurs on other blogs, etc., and I'm trying to be patient, but damn it, Neal! Hurry!

If the pizza is even 1/10,032 as good as the food at L'Explorateur, I'm doomed. We all are. I will be a mammoth, more than willing to pack on the pounds. Check out Neal's tweets about the new digs on Twitter @pizzology

Other notable comings-abouts:

Upland Brewery is opening up an Indy location. An odd Indy location: Uptown Business Center at the corner of 49th and College. Right near...uh, that chicken wings place. From a few visits to their B-town home, I can attest to Upland's burgers being good about 50 percent of the time and their coconut tofu salad being exactly what a coconut tofu salad should be. Good ambiance, though. I hope they carry that through to their weird-ass location.

Good Morning Mama's is going to open...eventually. No new news presents itself as I stare lustfully at that ridiculously painted exterior. If the exterior paint job doesn't get you moving in the morning, you have obviously never stared at 80's jazzercise videos or old Sesame Street clips while hallucinating. Ahem. An old Indy Star article claims the extension of Mama Carolla's was set to open in July. It's September.

Nicole-Taylor's Pasta & Market is amazing. So far @josephjames and I have obsessed over the following pastas: Spinach, lemon-pepper, chipolte, curry and red pepper. The curry went well with a bastardized version of the curry dish I posted here a while back. They also had a real winner with the watermelon salsa they had available a few weeks ago.

I'm hooked. I am a certifiable junkie for anything that comes out of this spot. Located, conveniently, a few hops down from Locally Grown Gardens at 54th and the Monon. (Look for the yellow painted segment of the strip mall-ish building.) Special note: They also make gluten-free pastas.