Eastlake Craft Brewing may be coming this fall to Midtown Global Market. Cheesemaker Andy Hatch has bought Uplands and is working on a new cheese between Pleasant Ridge Reserve and Rush Creek Reserve. Local bars are upping their beer game. The Star Tribune gets the restaurant owner / event organizer side of the 2014 Gasthof zur Gemutlichkeit MLK Day Nazi frolic while City Pages digs into the “historical re-enactment” organizer’s SS skull tattoo. A first look at the Butcher Salt food truck. Lowertown is getting a new restaurant, the Public Kitchen and Bar. The Well Fed Guide to Life travels to The Buttered Tin (the restaurant’s team is pictured above; here’s our review). And a local-focused look at James Beard award finalists.