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Simple Earth Hops Harvest Details and Morning Roundup
A fight to allow food- and drink-themed restaurant and bar murals in Minneapolis; Zimmern’s take on the upcoming State Fair fare; a local poutine roundup; details on the Simple Earth Hops Harvest Brewfest in Dodgeville, WI; local craft shandy maker (granted, “craft” and “shandy” seem to be at loggerheads) Tonka donates its profits to fight […]
MoreFood & Wine’s Local Tour and Morning Roundup
Food & Wine lauds local restaurants including Travail, The Bachelor Farmer, and HauteDish (plus: Andrew Zimmern’s local picks and photos from our own Becca Dilley in the print edition); Howl at the Moon closes (alternately: The Shout House wins the piano bar duel); details on the Lynn; 2012’s farm families of the year; an early […]
MoreA New Beer-Blog Aggregator and Morning Roundup
It was a quiet day in Lake Wobegon yesterday, but a few hearty food-loving souls had food news to share. There’s a new beer-blog aggregator in the works, food-loving poets and poetry-loving foodies can square off in the food poetry contest at the State Fair, Lee Svitak Dean loves brunch at the Bachelor Farmer, love […]
MoreDevil’s Advocate vs. McDonald’s and Morning Roundup
Rachel loves the Scandinavian open-faced sandwiches at The Bachelor Farmer’s Sunday brunch, some notes on Badger Hill Brewing, praise for the Ruhland’s Strudel truck (here’s our profile of Tom Ruhland), Rick compiles pick-your-own raspberries and blueberries, a Q&A with Rouzbeh Toliati of Lulu’s Market & Deli in St. Paul, tasting notes on Dave’s BrewFarm Saison […]
MoreBrewtoad Hops Into View and Morning Roundup
The Twin Cities take the #7 slot on Travel+Leisure’s top 20 Burger Cities list, second graders in St. Paul grow a “pizza garden” in support of Palumbo’s, Iggers visits Tadka Indian Bistro in Uptown, the guys at the Reducer podcast say some nice things about The Bachelor Farmer and Pittsburgh Blue (warning: podcast contains chef-grade […]
MoreThe Post-Holiday Strib Roundup
Rick names the Bachelor Farmer his restaurant of the year (we dug it, too), Brent Kaufer is the first guy to make it through all 72 single malt Scotches on the St. Paul Grill’s list, a Minnetonka progressive dinner celebrates its 30th year, Rick loves the biscuits and gravy at Sun Street, and the obit […]
MoreSupper Club Documentary Seeks Funds and Morning Roundup
Iggers writes up Krungthep Thai and declares it the first authentic Thai place to grace Minneapolis; a Wisconsin supper club documentary (Old Fashioned) is raising production funds on Kickstarter; our own Aaron Landry has a drink named for him at the Strip Club (he joins Susan Pagani — of Sun Street Breads’s “The Susan” meatloaf […]
MoreTurkey to Go Goes for Broke and Morning Roundup
A review of the Wisconsin cheese known as Mona in the San Francisco Chronicle, Fair favorite Turkey to Go is picking up storefronts in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the #1 favorite restaurant of Chef Christopher Gerster of Graze in Madison is Tanpopo Noodle Shop in St. Paul, a review of the fascinating-looking Eye Pea Eh? […]
MoreLove for The Bachelor Farmer and Morning Roundup
The rising price of peanuts has caused Hell’s Kitchen to boost the price of its famed peanut butter, an article about pairing Wisconsin cheese (!) with Scotch (!), looks like the bro bar scene in Uptown will be maintaining equilibrium, Rick admires The Bachelor Farmer (we dug it, too), video documentation of an underground dinner […]
MoreWisconsin Cheese and Supper Clubs and Morning Roundup
Rachel digs The Bachelor Farmer (here’s our take on it; also, we’re going to miss her weekly column), a profile of the beekeepers at Bare Honey (they’ll be at our upcoming North Coast Nosh), our own Soleil Ho has a story about working as a female cook in the new issue of Creative Ladies Are […]
MoreCold-Climate Goodness and Morning Roundup
Bill Ward says a wine made from the Marquette grape is “the most delicious cold-climate red wine I’ve ever tasted,” praise for the red velvet mocha at Royal Grounds, Bill Roehl gives Las Tortillas in Rosemount a negative review, thoughts on the unusual pizza at Ecopolitan, Dara likes the food and hates the service thus […]
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