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Aaron is the Co-founder and was the Producer of the Heavy Table. Born and raised outside of Stillwater, Minnesota, he has called both Saint Paul and Minneapolis home. His personal site is aaronlandry.com
The Grand Forks Herald explains the bizarre pairing at the Fargo Rotary Club’s Lobster and Lefse Festival, the Iowa State Fair started yesterday (here’s some “blue ribbon recipes“), Colin Gasko of Rogue Chocolatier gets written up in Cool Hunting (very cool), and Lakeview Castle in Duluth is going to reopen as “Clearwater Grille on Lake Superior.” For […]
MoreLee Zukor and Simple, Good, and Tasty are hosting their second annual pig roast and potluck on August 15th from 4-7pm. Tickets are $15 and it’ll feature a wide variety of local food, great people, live music, and camaraderie. Looks like it should be a great event. Everyone is welcome. More information here.
MoreThe Downtown Journal posts the new name of Thom Pham’s new restaurant downtown: “Thom Pham’s Wondrous Azian Kitchen.” This smells like it might be related to the Stephanie Pituc piece from a week-and-a-half ago: “How Wanderers Wonderous Azian Kitchen was Named.”
MoreHeavy Table’s James Norton and Becca Dilley paired up with City Pages’ Rachel Hutton in judging last weekend’s Bacon Takedown — a competition in bacon creativity. The winner was Jason Goux’s bacon S’mores with cherry wrapped bacon. Yum. Here’s the list of winners and contestants and Rachel has a brief write-up.
MoreMPR’s Dave Peters explains “Food Miles,” or how much gasoline it takes to get your “local” food. Zimmern says downtown is the “absolute worst place on earth to open a restaurant” and links to the MUV BOX (when can we see one of these in Minneapolis?). Patrick makes fried catfish with fried holy basil, Eat […]
MoreStephanie Pituc shares a courageous recollection of the Azia-closing and Wanderers Wonderous Azian Kitchen-announcement PR event last week. It’s a piece on naming, pronunciation, and culture. “My therapist’s intuition picked up on a sense of embarrassment in the air…”
MoreIn Minneapolis, to exist as a microbrewery you also need to be a restaurant. The “Brew Beer Here” legislation eliminates this requirement, KSTP reports. The first public hearing is slated for July 26th. This would directly impact a number of new local brewers poised to go full-time.
MoreThe 2010 US Open Beer Championships, which included the full gamut from home brewers to professional breweries, named New Ulm’s 150-year-old Schell’s Brewery in their top 10. [via Bring.mn]
MoreDining Out For Life is today, April 29th. In Minnesota, 155 participating restaurants are donating a portion (and in three cases, all) of their proceeds to the Aliveness Project, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that supports individuals with HIV / AIDS and their families.
MoreFresh from winning CP’s Best Neighborhood Bar award, Merlins Rest is fixing up what many would say has been lacking: the food. According to manager Tracie Munce, they’re switching to St. Agnes bread, they’ll use Thousand Hills beef for their burgers, and they started sourcing more of their ingredients fresh from local sources. The new […]
MoreDeLeo Bros. Pizza (pronounced de-LAY-o) is celebrating its opening this month by giving out free garlic knots with all orders. They’re in the previous Paisano’s location in Woodbury: 803 Bielenberg Drive.
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