Butcher & the Boar Lauded, Loses Chef, and More

Becca Dilley / Heavy Table
Becca Dilley / Heavy Table

Barbette’s Chef Sarah Master talks about auditioning for ABC’s The Taste. Rick Nelson’s 10 best dishes of 2013 (here’s our three best … well, three for each of our staffers.) A profile of the founders of Urban Growler (here’s our interview.) The Well Fed Guide to Life visits Freehouse and alarms go off. The Wall Street Journal names Butcher & the Boar (above) one of the 20 great modern “meateries” just in time for Chef Jack Riebel’s departure. The Wedge is opening another location on the 2400 block of Nicollet Ave. And Rushing Waters Fisheries, Wisconsin’s largest trout farm (an hour southeast of Madison), has opened a restaurant called The Trout House.