After what's felt like months of sightseeing downtown, it's finally supper time. On the last leg of our Downtown Media Tour we went to 14 West for dinner and then to Mass Ave for the First Friday Gallery Tour. 14 West is in walking distance from the Hyatt, where we were staying for the night. All that touring made this girl hungry!

For starters we ordered the 14 West Crab Cakes with apple jicama salad and tomato butter sauce, Garlic Grilled Brie with mushrooms, walnuts, and an apricot glaze with crostini, and Tempura Fried Calamari with an apricot mustard. I also started with a Green Tea Martini. Everyone was pleased with the selections as we passed them around the table to try, but the martini was all mine.

After the Green Tea Martini I felt like continuing my Asian cuisine theme. For my entree I ordered Wasabi Crusted Tuna with sweet potato fries and a carrot ginger puree. Not only was it delicious but beautiful too. The tuna was perfectly seared and the sweet potato fries were served shoestring style and artfully layered.

For their entrees, my dining companions chose items like the Kobe Mac 'n' Cheese with Australian Kobe Beef, wild mushroom mac 'n' cheese, and butter poached lobster. (Certainly not your momma's mac 'n' cheese, sadly not vegetarian friendly.) Others had the Lobster Ravioli with mascarpone and tomato confit sauce, the Herb Rubbed Salmon with tomato butter sauce, and the Filet of Beef with whipped potatoes and fried onions.

Last but not least was dessert. I chose the Carrot Cake with Gran-Marnier cream cheese icing and walnuts, accompanied by a cup of Sumatra coffee from Hubbard and Cravens. The other eaters ordered Pretzel Bread Pudding with maple syrup and cinnamon ice cream, New York Style Cheesecake with fruit compote, and Chocolate Mousse Cake with marinated pound cake and marshmallow fluff.

For our after dinner stroll we headed to Mass Ave for the IDADA First Friday Gallery Tour. IDADA, the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association, is a non-profit membership based organization of artists, galleries, and art businesses downtown. Their focus is to promote artists with the highest of professional standards and to encourage community support of the visual arts.

As part of the tour we stopped in to the recently repurposed Art Bank on the east end of Mass Ave. This building used to house a financial bank, hence the name. It now holds valuables of a different sort. Artists rent the space by the foot to display their work. Many of the original interior areas still remain. Even the coat closet, teller windows, and bank vault accommodate the art.

After the art I was looking forward to staying up all night at the Hyatt hotel. But after traveling from the Wholesale District to Fountain Square to Mass Ave and back again it was all I could do to put myself to bed. And with the end of my day comes the end of this feature about our downtown media tour organized by Indianapolis Downtown Inc. Keep an eye out for other cultural district features to follow.