Milktooth
Brunch spot with a serious natural wine habit
Fletcher Place · Indianapolis · All-Day Brunch & Lunch · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed March 21, 2026
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First Impression
You come in for a dutch baby and leave talking about the wine list — that's the Milktooth move. For a breakfast-and-lunch spot in Indianapolis, the natural wine curation hits way above its weight class. The prices alone are enough to make you do a double take.
Selection Deep Dive
The list is tight but intentional, leaning into natural and low-intervention bottles from France, Italy, and the U.S. with some genuinely interesting detours through Spain, Austria, and Greece. You're not getting a 200-bottle cellar here, but what they've chosen reflects a real point of view — someone at this restaurant actually cares. Txakoli from the Basque Coast, Assyrtiko from Santorini, and a sparkling Erbaluce from Piedmont are not the wines you expect to find next to your pork belly Benedict. The gaps show up in depth — if you want to go vertical on anything or find serious reds, you'll hit the wall fast.
By the Glass
Glass pour options appear to mirror the bottle list's sensibility — approachable, food-friendly, and priced so low you'll reflexively check if there's a catch. The Vin de Pays Rosé at $9 and the Ameztoi Rubentis at $12 suggest a rotation built for daytime drinking without the daytime guilt. Exact count is unclear, but the range covers sparkling, white, rosé, and light red territory — which is exactly what you want for this kind of food.
Xarmant Txakoli — $11
Retail on this is $25 and it's a genuinely distinctive Basque white — briny, low-alcohol, with a spritz that makes it one of the better brunch pours we've seen anywhere. At $11 a glass, it's practically a gift.
2010 San Giorgio Sparkling Erbaluce
Sparkling Erbaluce is a niche within a niche — a northern Italian grape that most wine drinkers have never encountered. The 2010 vintage adds some age-related complexity that you don't often find at a brunch spot. Most tables will walk right past it. Don't.
Juve Y Camps Cava
At $10 a glass it's not offensive, but Cava is the safe, uninspired call on a list that otherwise swings for something more interesting. The Txakoli and the Erbaluce are right there — choose those instead.
Atlantis Assyrtiko + Pork Belly Benedict
Assyrtiko's high acidity and saline minerality cut right through the richness of pork belly and hollandaise. It's the kind of pairing that makes you feel like you figured something out, and at $11 a glass, it won't feel like a gamble.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Milktooth is proof that natural wine curation doesn't require a white tablecloth or a New York zip code. The markups are almost suspiciously fair, the list is small but genuinely thoughtful, and the whole thing makes a lot more sense once you taste how well it fits the food.
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