Mar. 9 Morning Roundup

Mag reports on the Create catering beer dinner featuring Jeff Williamson and his Flat Earth brews,  Bill Roehl polls readers on chain restaurants after having a lousier-than-usual time at Chili’s, Iggers plugs a special March 14 hot pot dinner at ChinDian Café, Liz of Food Snobbery loses a loaf of gluten-free foccacia to a dog and writes up Cat Man Do, and Stephanie at Mpls.St. Paul reports that Pastrami Tommy’s is open in Oakdale.