20.21

Soul Daddy Takes a Dive and Morning Roundup

No sooner does Andrew Zimmern blog about America’s Next Great Restaurant Soul Daddy’s dire situation than the last restaurant in the chain closes up, Dara extolls food truck Vellee Deli (check out our food truck directory here), MPLS.TV debuts Street Stories and the first installment includes Lyndale Ave., frozen dinners and… other things, Rick Nelson […]

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D’Amico Taking Over at Walker

A source at the restaurant 20.21 tells us that D’Amico will be taking control of food service at the Walker Art Center within the next month; 20.21 will close after a run of more than five years. (From the archives: We dined and talked with Chefs Wolfgang Puck and Asher Miller.) UPDATE: Final dinner service […]

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Bread-Baking and Morning Roundup

Martha and Tom prove that baking bread at a reasonable hour is possible in spite of a day job, 20.21 plans a Saracina wine dinner, The Well-Fed Guide to Life hosts their third annual listener’s choice awards, a Perennial Plate episode on Rustica — and homemade bread pudding, and positioning yak as a viable food […]

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March 10 Morning Roundup

Zimmern chews over the Hooters shut-down and declares the 20.21 banh mi the best in town, an alumni profile of one of the Fulton Beer guys, Rachel writes up the “fractional,” “creative” eating at Piccolo, El Nuevo Rodeo is in danger of being shut down by the city, a homebrew bill passed the MN House […]

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October 28 Tweet Rodeo

It’s zombie season — to celebrate, pick up a $3 “dead” pizza at @PunchPizza! @AsherBMiller promotes tonight’s 20.21 Wine Dinner, @LucyWaverman posts a recipe for her favorite sauce to “serve with everything,” @CommonRoots is hiring, @StephMarch follows the tournament of cookbooks on food52, and @SeriousEats shares a recipe for a ridiculously recession-proof (yet non-ramen) meal.

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October 9 Tweet Rodeo

It’s getting colder, the days are growing shorter, it’s that time of year — @BirchwoodCafe serves up free @Peace_Coffee every Friday morning this month to celebrate Free Trade Month, @CheeseCupid recommends an unconventional romano cheese / spiced pumpkin butter pairing, 20.21 chef @AsherBMiller tells you how to get a free glass of wine at his […]

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June 25 Morning Roundup Part II

Iggers finds an odd Indian-inspired Malay dish at Zake (where he also trashes the bento box), two cats plus vegetables, meditations on the term “meathead” and the best burger name of the year (The Lair of the Minotaur), oh Lileks with your zany old milk-related ads from the past, and the Strib dips into Portuguese […]

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