The Pretender

10/05/2026

Park yourself in the party booth, conveniently located within listening distance of one of our vintage Tannoy speakers. 🔊

Bring your favorite record, order a round, and let us give your vinyl the hi-fi treatment. BYO Vinyl Night at The Pretender is every Monday & Tuesday. 💿🥃

10/02/2026

A Heart of Gold and a weekend with a very good soundtrack. 🥃🎶

Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon, lemon, honey syrup, and a fresh wildflower honey dipper. Best enjoyed with the volume up! 🎚️

FRIDAY → from 7pm
SATURDAY → from 7pm

See you soon. 🪩

10/01/2026

“Noblesville is growing but it still really values these historical buildings right on the square,” Fogelsong said. “Noblesville loves modern concepts. We thought, ‘Let’s take this older, historical building and update it to a retro-modern design and do something unique with it.’”

Thank you to Youarecurrent for this amazing write up featuring the inspiration behind, and our vision for The Pretender! 🤝As always, we can't express our gratitude enough to our Noblesville neighbors and community for the support.

When Blake Fogelsong walked through the property at 818 Logan St. on the downtown square in Noblesville, he could practically hear the music. “It really screamed ‘listening bar’ to me when I first saw the space and saw the size of it,” said Fogelsong, owner and director of operations for Cla...

09/30/2026

Cozy season 🤝 The Pretender. Highly recommend sinking into a booth seat with a nice little light red and ordering our Roasted Chicken Marsala with pillowy gnocchi, mushrooms, and a rich Marsala sauce for dinner. 🍷 🍗

09/28/2026

Meet the man behind the music. 🎚️

DJ Helicon is the mind behind our monthly DJ schedule, and someone who knows a thing or two about great sound. Hear him talk about what makes The Pretender’s state-of-the-art sound system so special, engineered by the audio obsessives at Uncanned Music.

Come listen properly. 🔊💿 Catch live DJs every Friday + Saturday night, or take over the turntables yourself during BYO Vinyl Nights every Monday + Tuesday.

09/25/2026

Weekend: ON. Volume: UP. 🎚️

FRIDAY → from 7pm
SATURDAY → from 7pm

Two killer sets + plenty of reasons to stay for one more. 🥃🎶 Reservations booked up? Come anyway. We always hold back seats at the bar for walk-ins. 🤝

09/23/2026

We hear inquiring minds want to know what’s spinning at The Pretender in October... 👀🎚️

Our October DJ schedule has officially dropped, with a full month of good records, late nights, and plenty of reasons to grab a seat and a drink (or two). 🍸

Text your friends, save the dates and get those reservations on the books. 🎶

09/22/2026

Before streaming. Before playlists. Before music was just something playing quietly in the background; there was the jazz kissa. 🎚️

Born from Japan’s traditional coffeehouse culture, these intimate listening rooms became places where the record was the main event. Owners collected hard-to-find vinyl, obsessed over their hi-fi systems, and created rooms where you could sit down, order a drink, and actually listen. No skipping tracks. No shuffling. No algorithm deciding what came next. Just a great record, played through a great system, in a room full of people who could appreciate all of those elements coming together.

That idea stuck with us.

The Pretender is our take on the listening lounge: vintage equipment, carefully chosen records, good food, strong drinks, low lights, and a little less hurry.

Come in, grab a drink, and stay for Side B. 🥃💿

09/18/2026

Party like it’s 1976. 🪩

Cheese Fondue bubbling with Gruyère. Deviled Eggs topped with jalapeño bacon jam. Pigs in a Blanket wrapped in puff pastry. The greatest hits of the ’70s dinner party, remastered for The Pretender by Chef and team.🍴

09/16/2026

The Velvet Underground 🍓 ✨ St. George Valley Gin, Carpano Antica, and strawberry-infused Campari. A Negroni riff with a strawberry streak and a name that belongs on the turntable.