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Dara Dents Bar La Grassa’s Shine

Dara, writing in Minnesota Monthly, has penned what may be the first non-gushing thing yet written about the insanely popular Bar La Grassa. “Most of what I tried tasted unfinished,” she writes of the appetizers; most pasta “was good but not great”; and of the carrot cake: “Ever been to a wedding? It’s that carrot […]

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July 14 Morning Roundup Part II

A mediation on summer’s bounty — in list form — at the Corner Table’s blog, Dara fields a fishy-looking letter (is someone seriously demanding a $1000 formally attired meal these days?) and urges the plebes to cry out for blood, Food Snobbery gets down to the Seed Savers conference in Iowa, and Heavenly Cake Place […]

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Dara Digs on D’Amico

A detailed dispatch on the doings at D’Amico via Dara. The closing of D’Amico Cucina, the opening of a new Italian (not “Northern Italian,” not “Southern Italian”) mystery project, the fate of chefs and staff — much is disclosed, more still is speculated upon.

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Feb. 24 Morning Roundup

Metro Magazine presents thirteen of the best bakeries in the Twin Cities, a rundown of Friday fish fries by Stephanie March over at Mpls.St.Paul, Stewart “Shefzilla” Woodman Dee Wayne tears into the Mpls.St.Paul readers’ picks for best restaurants with righteous and well-founded anger (Best Seafood… #4 Red Lobster… Christ!), and Dear Dara wimps out by […]

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Feb. 13 Morning Roundup

Iggers reports from Singapore, Dara reports on recession-busters such as Black Sheep, The Blue Door and Bulldog Lowertown, Nelson rounds up all manner of Thai food, Zimmern plugs Gastro Non Grata at the Triple Rock, Hutton talks up the new planned gastropub Gas-tro-nome, and Metro Magazine rounds up the best pizza… defined here as essentially […]

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