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.
A Beer Musings wrap-up of the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest, a terrific Wall Street Journal article featuring Duluth’s white-hot Nokomis (link will expire), a curious sauceless, cheeseless potato-bedecked pizza from breadbasketcase, Tom of Martha and Tom tackles Minnesota-style pizza (does it really exist?), Mayor Rybak makes the case for tap water on his blog, and a vegetarian offers her opinion on Burger Jones. (A curious flip-side to that velociraptor who recently reviewed three kinds of tofu from The Wedge.)
[...] was excited to see on both June 25 and June 30 a couple of hellos from James Norton over at The Heavy Table, a food blog here in the Twin Cities. [...]