About Aristocrat Pub & Oxford Room
Aristocrat Pub & Oxford Room on N College Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana has been a Marion County institution since 1933, settling at its current 5212 N College Ave address in South Broad Ripple in 1987 and rebuilding after a devastating fire that the regulars still talk about. The Hoosier Tenderloin on the menu — center-cut from fresh pork loin, coated in seasoned breading, fried golden, or available grilled if you ask — runs $11.55 and is the version that earned Axios Indianapolis a "two thumbs way up" in November 2025.
The tenderloin is pounded thin enough that the meat-to-bun ratio is, in the Axios reviewer's words, absurd in the way you want a proper Indiana tenderloin to be — high on the crispy, low on the greasy, with crisp edges good enough to tear off and eat like an appetizer before you start on the sandwich proper. Served with kettle chips on the side, which the black pepper lovers in particular notice. The breaded version is the default and the right call for most people, but the grilled, Cajun, and lemon pepper variants are there for the regulars who have worked through the rotation. The Aristocrat was seeded No. 13 in IndyStar's 2025 Tenderloin Tournament, putting it firmly in the broader Indianapolis tenderloin conversation.
Beyond the tenderloin, the kitchen runs an English-American pub menu with depth: an Irish pork sausage plate, a corned beef Reuben on grilled marble rye, lightly breaded and sautéed pork tenderloin served with German red potatoes and red cabbage, a wheel of brie with brown sugar crust, and a 60-craft-beer tap list. The Oxford Room private dining space on the second floor handles rehearsal dinners and small parties. Sunday brunch runs 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
The Aristocrat is closed Mondays. For anyone in Broad Ripple, Meridian-Kessler, or routing the Indianapolis north side tenderloin run, Aristocrat Pub & Oxford Room at 5212 N College Ave has been the South Broad Ripple anchor for nearly forty years at this address — and feeding Indianapolis under the Aristocrat name since the Roosevelt administration.