The latest from Twitter: @BirchwoodCafe is featuring artwork by WACSO (check out his lively contributions to some of our stories), @fultonbeer’s Sweet Child of Vine is only $3 a pint @ZenBoxIzakaya, @RickNelsonStrib wants to know how you tip, and @MNBeerActivists ask about the best beer for breakfast time.
Mecca reports that the Fabian seafood truck is at the In-N-Out station in Minnetonka (15114 Hwy 7) today from noon-6pm, and at Pahl’s Market in Apple Valley (6885 W. 160th) from 10am-noon tomorrow. Gulf shrimp, blue crab meat, crawfish tails… sounds like good BBQ fodder.
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The City Pages beer fest is going on its 17th year and features 120 brews — and it’s now at a new location, near 10th and Hennepin. Tickets $30; $8 for designated drivers; $45 for VIPs who want to drink, uh, unlimited Michelob.
Simple, Good, and Tasty gives a nice breakdown on AM950′s new food show, “Fresh & Local” with Susan Berkson and Bonnie Dehn. Guests have included Lucia Watson, Mike Phillips of The Craftsman, and Jeremy Iggers. (The Heavy Table’s editor appears on the program June 6.)
The menu details are in for the Thursday, June 4 Lift Bridge Dinner at the Water Street Inn in Stillwater, and it sounds like a doozy. Here’s course two: Biscotti™ will accompany a slow roasted shrimp appetizer with fennel slaw and a garlic beurre blanc.
Bill Roehl hits gem-in-the-rough Mexican joint Tacolmeca in Burnsville and delivers a number of verdicts in his patented paint-peeling uncensored style: “I dug in to the tamale first. It was a bit overdone for my liking but the parts that weren’t burned to a crisp were spicy and flavorful”; “I switched over to the Cuban torta. This thing was a monster and it looked so fucking tasty”; “Two thumbs way the fuck up for Tacolmeca’s tortas.”
Becca Dilley / Heavy Table
110 years old and manufactured about three hours away from the Twin Cities in Spring Grove, the Spring Grove Soda Pop brand has a history that should catch the eye of any Minnesotan curious about locally made food. An excerpt from Soil, Timber, & A Spring — The Story of Spring Grove, Minnesota on the soda’s website tells the story in brief:
Spring Grove Pop has been refreshing palates in this city, and the surrounding area, for nearly 100 years. The Spring Grove Bottling Works is the city’s oldest business, and one dear to the hearts of many Spring Grove residents, some of whom can still remember dashing off to the Bottling Works to buy three bottles for a dime to take along on their school picnics.
A simple sniff of an open bottle indicates that this stuff is more potent than your typical beverage. Halfway between a lemon and a pine tree, the Lemon Sour packs an olfactory punch.
Mildly carbonated, the soda itself is bracing but not abrasive. There’s a distinctly natural lemon flavor (as opposed to 7-Up and other mass market lemon-esque sodas) and a bit of a sour afterbite — not as extreme as Schweppes Bitter Lemon, for example, but convincing nonetheless. This would handily cut through the greasy and / or sweet and / or carbon-charred miasma of your typical backyard cookout food.
The stuff is available sporadically throughout the state and the Twin Cities; Surdyk’s had it recently.
Vodka, it turns out, brings out the soda’s sweetness and lemon zip, making for a tremendously refreshing summer beverage.
Minnesota Knockout Drop
Mix two shots Spring Grove Lemon Sour with one shot vodka over ice in a glass.
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