Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
In honor of Minnesota Craft Beer Week, @sweetsbakeshop’s flavor of the week (through 5/22) is chocolate beer (chocolate cake with oatmeal stout beer buttercream), @MoBea shares Andrew Zimmern’s list of favorite Midwest hamburgers (on which numbers one through three are Minneapolis burgers), @2harvest is looking for volunteers this Thursday at their mobile food pantry at […]
More@GoldenFig and @LocalDLish update on their morel inventory (summary — if you want morels, get them soon!), @Northern_Brewer offers a brewing demo and Q & A for Minnesota Craft Beer Week, @AcadiaCafe hosts another Beer & Beast, @TurkeyToGo adds an Uptown weeknight / weekend location, and @AndrewZimmern gets a shot of [some of] the Minnesotans […]
More@ForkKnifeSpoon samples and tweets a play-by-play commentary of brand-new @Masu_NE, @SorellaWines wraps up their spring wine sale this weekend, @SeaChange_Mpls launches a new dinner menu, @AndrewZimmern raves about @TiliaMpls, and @HeidisMpls receives an opinionated fortune at @HauteDish.
More@CakeEaterBakery celebrated one year in business yesterday (celebrate with a home-baked cake using owner Emily Moore Harris’ vegan baking tips), @PunchPizza offers a new salumi plate at their Highland Park outpost, @SewardCoop gears up for their CSA Fair, @MplsFarmMarket calls out some interesting points from the USDA’s Minnesota Fact Sheet, and @AndrewZimmern cheers on Robin from […]
MoreAndrew Zimmern’s in rare form as he shellacs BLVD of Minnetonka to within an inch of its liquor license. He gets warmed up by calling it “a restaurant built on selling a canard,” and then things go downhill from there — in the process, he describes and deconstructs a manner of service that could be […]
More@SweetMsFarm commences a move, @FourFirkins liquidates all wine and port (better get in on the sale prices before the wine is gone for good!), @LiftBridge works on building out their brewery, @SewardCoop offers a few more days to win free groceries by buying local, and @AndrewZimmern commends 20.21’s takeout.
MoreZimmern plunges a sizable dagger into Oceanaire (“For years this restaurant was a reliable go-to eatery for our family… Not anymore”), a palate cleansing rave for Haute Dish, thoughts on four delicious sorbets from Crema Cafe, Bill Roehl loves basically everything about Destiny Cafe other than the pig uteri (“not only was this an inexpensive […]
MoreFrom last night’s Nightline interview, a look into Andrew Zimmern’s struggle with addiction: “I lived in an abandoned building in lower Manhattan; one that we squatted – a bottle gang and I. I would steal purses off the backs of chairs in those swanky little cafes on Madison Avenue, run down the side street, leap […]
MoreAndy Sturdevant exhorts us to support the Donut Cooperative’s Kickstarter campaign, Zimmern interviews Andrew Miller of Cafe Imports (he drinks coffee at Dunn Bros, Kopplin’s, Black Sheep Coffee Cafe, and Rustica), Rachel reviews First Avenue’s Depot and Twisted Fork (here’s our review of Twisted Fork), another Furthermore barn party tonight in Spring Green, WI, Heartland’s […]
MoreMPR’s Dave Peters explains “Food Miles,” or how much gasoline it takes to get your “local” food. Zimmern says downtown is the “absolute worst place on earth to open a restaurant” and links to the MUV BOX (when can we see one of these in Minneapolis?). Patrick makes fried catfish with fried holy basil, Eat […]
MoreWhat foods are on @MSPMag critics’ minds? @AndrewZimmern “swoons” for Piccolo; @StephMarch raves about HauteDish’s The Godfather drink. Meanwhile, @LocalDlish recommends Cherry Tree House Farms’ shiitakes, and @GrumpysNE serves up a Rush River firkin for Firkin Friday.
MoreLast night, the James Beard Foundation announced the winners of its 2010 Media and Book Awards. They include Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl (Minnesota Monthly) for “Chardonnay Uncorked” under the category “Writing on Spirits, Wine, or Beer,” and Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern) under the category “TV Food Personality.” Also, Chow.com (which includes the Supertaster […]
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