Trader Joe’s is coming to downtown Minneapolis and Solera closes its doors after 11 years (sunrise, sunset). Tickets for Winterfest go on sale later this month. The Well Fed Guide to Life visits Mancini’s and Betty Danger’s. Local food writers close out 2014 with reflections on their restaurant standbys and we recap the year in food on MPR. Bayfield-based Big Water Coffee Roasters starts shipping beans nationwide, joining other Lake Superior craft coffee outfits like Duluth Coffee Company and Fika (Grand Marais.) And Heavy Table contributing photographer Becca Dilley shows off her nine best time-sink photos of 2014 (including an animated .gif of Norseman Distillery.)