Big Wood Brewery hopes to set up a taproom in White Bear Lake (zoning code update required), Northgate Brewing is opening early this fall in Northeast and will make English session beers, DeRusha digs Cafe Levain and praises the short rib burger, a construction boom in Lowertown could bring some new restaurants and bars, Madison will soon be home to a local grenadine by Quince and Apple and a Death’s Door Spirits distillery, and why you should grill clams, cheese, and other crazy stuff.
Rachel previews D’Amico’s Parma 8200, a 100-year-old cheese plant gets a new lease on life in Wisconsin, Bill Roehl is blown away by Fogo de Chao, can we please have a moratorium on “what happens in X stays in X” headlines, Simple Good and Tasty is going national, behold the 128 Cafe food truck, and a glance at Rustica’s Kouign Amann (AKA butter cake).
Let’s also ban “Will the real XXXX please stand up?” and any variation of “Swimmers make splash at meet.”