Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Blackbird’s back in business and they’ll take old giftcards, a MinnPost profile of the Brau Bros. in Lucan, the Kingfield Farmers Market moves indoors for one last hurrah of the season, some fun foodie math, and Downtown Journal profiles Saffron’s wunderkind, Sameh Wadi. Also: Make sure you check out a session of squirrel hunting, Hmong […]
MoreRick declares Parma 8200 a “home run” and provides some details about the soon-to-reopen Blackbird, Reetsyburger tells us several great ways to celebrate National Sandwich Day locally, HauteDish is launching a four-course vegetarian tasting menu every Sunday for $30, Whole Foods will open in Minnetonka next year [via Bring.mn], and Sunday Nov. 14 is the […]
MoreSteel Toe Brewing is in the works in St. Louis Park (via MNBeer), a lukewarm review of Luci Ancora, the Heidi’s / Blackbird building gets demolished, a native Southerner vouches for the boiled peanuts at Midtown Farmers Market (as detailed in our story), Uptown’s defunct Zen Asian is set to become another Tea House, Dara […]
MoreA Nutella brioche by ELBfoto, beet salad and cashew curry from Chef Shack by Carla_Januska, Blackbird’s new location by katbaro, morels by purpig, the Beast sandwich from Baldy’s BBQ by rabidscottsman, and a turnip salad by vhaight.
MoreKate introduces us to her wondrous new chicklets, the snack forecast for Art-a-Whirl, a look at the blue cheese makers over Seymour Dairy, books on Wisconsin fish (People of the Sturgeon), cheese (The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin), and food in general (The Flavor of Wisconsin) win Midwest Book Awards, first anniversary and MN Craft Beer […]
MoreVia the Blackbird Facebook page: “We signed a lease on a new location today! The big, red brick building at the corner of 38th & Nicollet will be our new home. We’re going full steam ahead to get the doors open by September.” Blackbird’s 50th St. and Aldrich Ave. location burned down along with Heidi’s […]
MoreApparently you only get a warning at Target Field if you smoke weed out of a red pepper, the Heidi’s / Blackbird fire is ruled accidental, Teddy raves up a classic cheeseburger, the always handy City Pages Month in Review, and the Perennial Plate films an episode in Milan, MN featuring Garden Goddess Enterprises and […]
MoreMore than 55 area restaurants will raise money for Heidi’s and Blackbird (the two Minneapolis restaurants destroyed by a recent fire) on March 14. The “Fork the Fire” evening features two special events: A $30 dinner at Mission American Kitchen (featuring Stewart Woodman), and a $25 dinner at Cafe 28 featuring Chris Stevens of Blackbird. […]
MoreBill Roehl’s stormy forecast for a wildlife education center / bar/ grill in Farmington, oven fries vs. the February blues, behold the new fish fry club theme song, an epic sandwich review of the 112 Eatery burger, looks like the (a? one of many?) benefit for Heidi’s and Blackbird may happen March 14, thoughts on […]
MoreThe amazing Heavy Table cake (and other shots from our party) by beccadilley, whole wheat / rye sourdough with flax seeds by gamelaner, wild rice and mushroom soup, spaghetti sauce and whole grain pancakes with blueberry maple syrup by pickycook, shrimp sauce from Groceries of the Orient in Burnsville, Minnesota by rabidscottsman, and post-fire photos […]
MoreSome damn serious fish fry bloggin’, Kate in the Kitchen mourns Blackbird and Heidi’s, Iggers digs the reinvented Szechuan-Hunan-style Zen in Uptown, a review of New Glarus cherry stout, and the magic of winter watercress.
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