Month: February 2009

Hang Tight for Bun Mi Stadium Village

A call placed to the not-quite-open Vietnamese-inspired eatery Bun Mi reveals that they’re shooting for an end-of-March opening, and plan to offer both traditional Vietnamese dishes and bahn mi sandwiches as well Korean BBQ and lemongrass chicken. Sounds like a place worth watching… [Originally: Hang Tight for Bun Mi Dinkytown. Thanks to Anne for the […]

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A Guide to Bagging Savings

[Via KARE 11]: The non-profit Twin Cities Consumers’ Checkbook investigates aggregate grocery prices in the Twin Cities and finds out that a) shopping at Wal-Mart saves you a ton of money, b) the produce, service and meat are lousy at Wal-Mart, and c) although Lunds and Byerly’s are expensive, they’re awesome on the quality and […]

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Feb. 26 Morning Roundup

Zimmern comments on the Beard Award nominees (re: Lucia’s: “…her eatery isn’t even in my top five for best local restaurants”), the local Chowhounds dig into the mysterious Italian pepper and egg sandwich, Stewart “Shefzilla” Woodman reports 300 applicants for a single dish position (yikes), Jimmy John’s drags the word “rockstar” into an Orwellian sewer […]

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Tian Jin and the Xerox Machine

Editor’s Note: Tian Jin is now closed. It’s hard not to feel as though you’re getting hoodwinked nearly every time you eat Chinese food in this country. The flavors are washed out, simple, cloying or one-dimensionally hot. There’s no damned way one of the oldest and most magnificently complicated civilizations in the world came up […]

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Love and Vinaigrettes

Annona Gourmet is hosting Chef Ron Combs (Elegancia Catering and Cooks of Crocus Hill) this Saturday, Feb. 28, at 1pm, for a demonstration of kickass upscale vinaigrettes. Featured: lemon garlic aioli, oregano vinaigrette,  and more.

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