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Zimmern vs. BLVD: Over in One
Andrew 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 […]
MoreFoul Food, Foul Fowl Treatment, Fowl Play, and the Morning Roundup
Rachel heads out to the ‘burbs to eat at the Purple Sandpiper and BLVD (review features this bare-knuckle imagery: “The Cauliflower Soba Noodles might have been mistaken for day-old cat vomit”), the Well Fed Guide to life chows down at El Taco Riendo, a Minnesota turkey hatchery comes under fire for animal cruelty, and Trout […]
MoreBLVD Feels Great and Morning Roundup
Bobby Kahn debuts the Tim and Eric-esque Pizza Time show on MPLS.TV, a roundup of local ways to give back to the community this Thanksgiving, Zimmern offers good insight into what might make the upcoming Pizzeria Lola special, Marianne Miller loves the look and feel of BLVD (Rick concurs, saying that owner Dean Vlahos “deftly […]
MoreFive More Guys and Morning Roundup
Five Guys is coming to Dinkytown (which neatly parallels their location on State Street in Madison, WI), Stub & Herb’s has some cool new shirts, DeRusha waxes poetic about local charcuterie, some striking photo outtakes from our profile of Chef Sarah Master from Porter and Frye, how to roast and freeze tomatoes for the winter, […]
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