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.
Iggers finds an odd Indian-inspired Malay dish at Zake (where he also trashes the bento box), two cats plus vegetables, meditations on the term “meathead” and the best burger name of the year (The Lair of the Minotaur), oh Lileks with your zany old milk-related ads from the past, and the Strib dips into Portuguese wine… speaking of which, we enjoyed the hell out of some white port at 20.21.
