When I sat down at Strange Bird (128 S. Audubon Rd.), a tropical bar in Indianapolis’s Irvington neighborhood, I ordered a daiquiri. The bartender, Ian, chilled the glass with liquid nitrogen, rolling the vapor around in one hand as he shook the cocktail with the other, then set it in front of me. I took a sip. Perfect.
The last time I visited Strange Bird, from brothers Neal and Paul Warner, was February 2020, when my boyfriend, Kenney, and I were in Indianapolis on the