Blue Nile

Doughnuts-A-Go-Go and Morning Roundup

The owners of Schell’s Brewery get a Service to Mankind award (it is pretty good beer), a review of Joey Nova’s pizza in Tonka Bay, urban farmer Will Allen and Andrew Zimmern will co-headline the Kickapoo Country Fair organic food fest, seasonal eating at Rainbow Chinese, the Heavy Table talks pies on All Things Considered, […]

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September 11 Morning Roundup

The HomeMade Pizza Co. opens a branch in Calhoun Commons, Dara’s got a shotgun blast of Nick and Eddie news updates and insights (booze crisis! not closing! simpler menu!), Green Your Plate does some cool stuff with corn, apparently the Pizza Farm also offers the world’s cutest kittens for adoption, Aaron from Captain’s Chair has […]

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June 25 Morning Roundup Part III

Sue from Bemidji visits a charming outdoor brick calzone oven, a chowhound fights to save Ramy’s Mediterranean Cuisine and New York Style Pizzeria in Apple Valley, Chef Chris thinks the $50 Williams-Sonoma Meatball Grilling Basket is stupid (we concur), Rick Nelson eats a ton of ice cream and charges it to the paper, Teddy digs […]

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June 2 Morning Roundup

Andrew Zimmern channels Andy Rooney, Parasole is launching a new Uptown venture called Lake Street Cafeteria and Support Group (and trying retool the perpetually-flailing Figlio), Hennepin County Library has a cool list of 36 nonfiction food books [via Stephanie], Downtown Journal meets the Hmong farmers of the Mill City Farmers Market, MNBeer checks out the […]

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Strib Party Roundup

Tom Horgen reports on a hoppy beer party at the Blue Nile, the Nordeast Bar Hop, and Braufest. Plus, via an email update: Longfellow Grill is having a patio party on Wednesday, June 3, from 5-9pm featuring $2 Summits and brats. Summit’s own Mark Stutrud will be in attendance.

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Big Taste, Small Package

Kris and Mag at Beer Musings give big props to a four-oz. pour of Eel River Raven’s Eye Russian Imperial Stout, as featured at an intense Day of Big Beers at the Blue Nile. Quoth Kris: “Even at 9.5% this is an easy drinker that is well balanced enough to be had for a long […]

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