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 French menu over at Camacho Watcho’s cooking club, Tour de Farm butchers six pigs so that we might live, She Loves Me Cake from Heavenly Cake Place, kind words for us from Andrew Zimmern, Anna from True Thai stacks her food up against Applebee’s (calorie for calorie), Tastebud Tart tells you what the deuce to do with chive blossoms, the haunting visage of Driskill’s swims through our Flickr pool, and Troy disses the arugula ravioli at Common Roots without backing it up.
