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Second Look: Freehouse, Nightingale, Bar La Grassa
A return visit to three restaurants we’ve previously reviewed, including Freehouse, Bar La Grassa, and Nightingale.
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Restaurant Parking Changes in St. Paul and May 24 Tweet Rodeo
The latest from Twitter: @Labellevie_mn gets a Zagat mention (along with 112 Eatery, Vincent, Alma, and Bar La Grassa), @andrewzimmern eats something like a Treatzza Pizza at El Taller in Tijuana, and @weeklydish is excited for new, more flexible parking requirements for restaurants in St. Paul.
MoreBecker Wins a Beard Award and Morning Roundup
Isaac Becker of 112 Eatery and Bar La Grassa wins the Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest, the New York Times writes up the Minneapolis bakery boom (they got Bars, Sweets, Salty Tart, and Patisserie 46; missed Sun Street), Rick shouts out three good neighborhood Italian restaurants, there’s a new local gourmet ice pops business […]
MoreBar La Grassa on Grub Street
A local restaurant makes the cut of Grub Street’s 101 most delicious pasta dishes. But is Bar La Grassa’s red wine spaghetti with pine nuts seriously all we’ve got going on around here? And does Chicago really have eight times as much good pasta as the Twin Cities? (Alternately: Does Firth, Nebraska have exactly the […]
MoreLocal Beard Award Details
Details on this year’s Beard award nominations are in, and two local chefs are among the nominees for Best Chef, Midwest: Isaac Becker of 112 Eatery and Bar La Grassa, and Lenny Russo of Heartland Restaurant and Farm Direct Market. Two Wisconsin chefs also made the cut: Tory Miller, chef/co-owner of L’Etoile in Madison (we […]
MoreA Local Food Guide for Chefs and Morning Roundup
The Minnesota Project has put out a new guide [here as a PDF] for chefs who want to buy local food, The Washington Post shouts out some local eateries and the Minnesota-born holiday of Febgiving, eating at Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant in Lakeville is “like eating at an Americanized Chinese buffet” writes Bill Roehl, Zimmern brings […]
More50th Street Cafe’s Debut and Morning Roundup
Details on the debut of the 50th Street Cafe in the recently closed Pearson’s space; one possible Vikings stadium site would displace the Minneapolis Farmers Market; Tempest Oyster Bar (a spinoff of the Tornado Steakhouse) will replace Restaurant Magnus in Madison; a winter citrus fruitshare recap (and a post about opal apples); the Well Fed […]
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