New Mediterranean restaurant Kanoon opened Aug. 1 in downtown Fishers, offering its unique style of smoked meat combined with Middle Eastern flavors in an upscale environment.

The restaurant is at 8594 E 116th St., right next to the Eiffel Waffle ice cream shop. Manager Adam Hineiti said the location is the chain’s first Indiana location. They chose Fishers, he said, because the community had an “abundance” of nice restaurants, but a lack of high-end Mediterranean choices.

“We wanted to fill that gap,” he said. “We want to give people a one-stop shop to come eat in an elegant, family friendly environment, with a large variety of Mediterranean dishes and meats.”

Hineiti said Kanoon is unique because of how it prepares its meat dishes.

“Our main bread and butter here is smoked meat,” he

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