Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
A thorough Rusty Taco taste test (here’s our review), the Well Fed Guide to Life heads to Liquor Lyles, Rainbow Chinese Restaurant turns 25 this year [PDF press release], the former chef / owner of Caribe will head up the kitchen for high-end arcade nightclub Insert Coins when it opens, the gorgeous-looking Big River Slow […]
MoreA flood and hailstorm devastates Laughing Loon Farm, an long-form interview with Wisconsin master cheesemaker Kerry Henning, tasting notes for Dave’s BrewFarm Hibiscus Lager, details on the newly opened downtown Lunds, farm-to-table chef Scott Pampuch departs for Milwaukee to work for a national hotel management company (here’s our interview with team behind the post-Pampuch Corner […]
MoreWith less than a day and nearly $30,000 to go the Caribe 2.0 Kickstarter needs a last-minute miracle, the Wedge fires its (seemingly effective) general manager, the aftermath of the well-attended but controversial Minnesota Cheese Festival (here’s our preview), praise for the Get Sauced food truck’s kalbi pork sandwich (our take on Get Sauced and […]
MoreThe latest from Twitter: As @CaribeBistro enters the 48-hour home stretch of their Kickstarter campaign, @RogueChocolate bemoans the trials of cacao tastings.
MoreRick digs the simple food at the remade Tao Natural Foods, tastes of the new sausages at Shepherd’s Way Farms (including an orange peel and red wine sausage), a Chowgirls-catered fundraising party and halfway update for Caribe’s new location, tasting notes for Summit’s Summer Ale (here are ours), some wine world updates including the state […]
MoreCaribe takes its quest for a new location to Kickstarter, a Wisconsin man is banned from an all-you-can-eat fish fry, Bon Appetit names Masu one of the best new sushi restaurants in the country (here’s our review), a taste of Mojo Monkey doughnuts, June is food Co-op Pub Trivia month at eight local bars [PDF […]
MoreThe latest from Twitter: Last-minute slots are available for @Bradstreet601’s cocktail class tomorrow, @zoebakes’ cookbook hits Taiwan, @CaribeBistro asks for location suggestions for a (hopefully) future re-incarnation, and @troutcaviar has a ramp-tastic lunch.
MoreWe really dug the food of St. Paul’s Caribe — see our favorable review and our coverage of their beer dinner last year. Unfortunately, good food isn’t always sufficient to keep a restaurant in business. What follows is a note from co-owner Heidi Panelli, announcing the restaurant’s closing. “It seems like yesterday we were polling […]
More@AleJail and @CaribeBistro team up to host a beer dinner (tickets still available), @SweetsBakeshop plans their Minneapolis store’s grand opening, @Pastureland offers a $10 off coupon (if you buy 5 lbs of aged raw milk cheddar), @FultonBeer promotes tomorrow’s MN Pint Bill Senate hearing, and @TheMNProject holds a fruit tree class next week.
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