Common Roots

The Forum Postmortem and Morning Roundup

The restaurant winner of America’s Next Great Restaurant is still secret but is also now hiring, Common Roots is offering a Passover menu [PDF], consideration of whether Aquavit Restaurant (or Aquavit Cafe) would survive in Minneapolis 2011, Rick’s analysis of the closing of The Forum and Jim Ringo’s bad year in restaurants, a formula for […]

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Goda Cafe Opens and Morning Roundup

Dave’s BrewFarm will be selling beer at Miller Park in Milwaukee; Brenda Langton of Spoonriver gives The Human Doing a vegetarian cooking lesson; Deb Carey of New Glarus Brewing is named Wisconsin Small Business Person of the Year; the African-themed Goda Cafe opens at 34th and Nicollet; turmoil and intrigue vis-a-vis Oceanaire and McCormick & […]

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Black Sheep STP Now Open and March 8 Tweet Rodeo

@CommonRoots plans to tap one of @Peace_Coffee + @FultonBeer’s four firkins of War+Peace this Thursday, @BlackSheepPizza’s new St. Paul location opened yesterday at 4:30 following some mechanical issues, @The_Wedge emerges unscathed from yet another commercial peanut butter recall (it seems there are more advantages to buying better peanut butter than just taste), and @Smack_Shack still […]

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Veg-Giving and October 26 Tweet Rodeo

@FACESMearsPark invites you to the BOOs Crawl in Lowertown this weekend, @CommonRoots taps @SurlyBrewing Darkness at 5pm, @CakeEaterBakery plans a Halloween party prior to their reset to winter hours, @BetsyKroon seeks a vegetarian Thanksgiving night out (via @DeRushaEats), and, if you’re in Duluth, @Brewhouse1 has 1/2 price wine bottles all day — so drink off […]

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