A fairly amazing-sounding Better Beer Society brown bag series event at Butcher & the Boar, some revised menus at local restaurants, a local foodie’s epic Mother’s Day feast, tasting notes for Summit Pilsner and Steel Toe’s Provider, the Star Tribune’s Taste 50, and a new urban farm in Minneapolis.
A new place offering custom wedding cakes and cupcake tiers called Sweet Retreat Cupcake Boutique is going in at the old Premier Cheese Market location (5013 France Ave. S, Minneapolis). We’re really hitting critical cupcake mass around here.









The sign in the window says “COMING SPRING 2010″ like it’s starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Jeez, I have no problem with cupcakes, but holy hell. This is a cupcake BLOCKBUSTER.
[...] Gaviidae Commons store and the anticipated debuts of Seward’s Cake Eater Bakery and The Sweet Retreat in the 50th and France shopping district this spring, doesn’t faze the pair, [...]