Feb. 26 Morning Roundup

Zimmern comments on the Beard Award nominees (re: Lucia’s: “…her eatery isn’t even in my top five for best local restaurants”), the local Chowhounds dig into the mysterious Italian pepper and egg sandwich, Stewart “Shefzilla” Woodman reports 300 applicants for a single dish position (yikes), Jimmy John’s drags the word “rockstar” into an Orwellian sewer […]

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Tian Jin and the Xerox Machine

Editor’s Note: Tian Jin is now closed. It’s hard not to feel as though you’re getting hoodwinked nearly every time you eat Chinese food in this country. The flavors are washed out, simple, cloying or one-dimensionally hot. There’s no damned way one of the oldest and most magnificently complicated civilizations in the world came up […]

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Love and Vinaigrettes

Annona Gourmet is hosting Chef Ron Combs (Elegancia Catering and Cooks of Crocus Hill) this Saturday, Feb. 28, at 1pm, for a demonstration of kickass upscale vinaigrettes. Featured: lemon garlic aioli, oregano vinaigrette,  and more.

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Espresso Royale on Washington Goes Down

The 614 Washington Ave. S.E. Espresso Royale has shut down, leaving two other locations still operating in Minneapolis. The company website’s description of the location: “…the company’s only cafe run entirely by its crew. And who said socialism never works?” Erk. Apparently the free market did, in this case.

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Feb. 25 Morning Roundup

Rachel gets out to Santorini’s new Eden Prairie digs, the PiPress recommends you steer your annoying kids to Cecil’s in St. Paul (thanks, PiPress!), Katie Cannon heads out to White Bear Lake to review Ursula’s Wine Bar, and Kris and Mag hit Flat Earth and Ngon.

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