Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
@TheWinePeople (Haskell’s liquor) offers 20% off French wines through Bastille day, @France44Cheese is adding comte with prosciutto to the menu, @BulldogNE will maintain their hit fish taco special throughout the summer, @MotoI2Go is rolling out some new sakes (hopefully as delicious as the last batch!), if you’re up for the drive tonight, a $10 wine […]
MoreSimple, Good and Tasty reviews the Toast and Taste in the Gardens, a Nutella-filled brioche certainly sounds like a good idea, a review of Les Freres cheese from Wisconsin’s Crave Brothers, Anna from True Thai reaches into her infinitely large Bag of Anecdotes and tells of making chili sauce, on a daily basis, for a […]
MoreThe Butcher Block apparently lives up to the hype, a neat shot of veggie tempura from Hoban Korean Restaurant in Eagan, MN in our Flickr pool (read Bill’s review here), and Mecca got uninvited to the Butcher Block preview after being invited (if it’s any consolation, Mecca, same thing happened to us).
MoreChick-fil-A (located locally at the Coffman Memorial Union on the U of M campus) is giving away a free meal to anyone who walks into any of its locations dressed as a cow. One day only: July 10, the chain’s Cow Appreciation Day. What constitutes “dressed like a cow”? Phone it in with a black-and-white […]
MoreThe Daily Beast interviews local Indian curry master Raghavan Iyer of 660 Curries fame and, not surprisingly, the dude knows his stuff. His favorite meal to cook for family and friends: “Tapioca pearl fritters with a coconut-sesame-seed sauce; chile-garlic potatoes dipped in chickpea flour, fried golden brown and stuffed into sandwich buns smothered with a […]
MoreLast winter, residents of South Minneapolis lamented the shuttering of Betsy’s Back Porch Coffee. More recently, they have anticipated the opening of Café Cuba in its place, at 5447 Nicollet Ave. But this week, “For Sale” signs appeared in the windows. Heavy Table spoke with the current lessee of the space, John Walker, for an […]
MoreWe Got Served has teamed up with HomeMade Pizza to do an online contest — comment with your favorite grilled pizza toppings and get a chance to win one of five $25 gift cards or five $10 gift cards.
MoreBrett at Trout Caviar has put his hand-built clay oven into service and cooked his first meal. The blog post explains the origin of its name (Pootzy), and details the entree he baked in it: “pizza with lardons of our home-smoked maple-cured bacon, sliced spring onions from the market, and a bit of aged Marieke […]
MoreSeed Savers, the largest non-governmental seed bank of its kind in the United States, is having a benefit concert at its Heritage Farm at 3074 North Winn Road, Decorah, IA. The event goes down at 7pm, Saturday, July 11, and features two-time Grammy-nominated singer / songwriter Greg Brown. Tickets are $20 in advance.
MoreSue from Bemidji visits a charming outdoor brick calzone oven, a chowhound fights to save Ramy’s Mediterranean Cuisine and New York Style Pizzeria in Apple Valley, Chef Chris thinks the $50 Williams-Sonoma Meatball Grilling Basket is stupid (we concur), Rick Nelson eats a ton of ice cream and charges it to the paper, Teddy digs […]
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