Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Bill Roehl wants to like Common Roots, but has a less-than-perfect brunch: “Unfortunately the entire experience along with Common Roots’ food reinforced to my unknowing parents that organic means tasteless and terrible.”
MoreLooks like a good Food and Farm Days at Common Roots this weekend — meet Todd Churchill from Thousand Hills (11am-12:30pm) and taste some free samples of their beef; also meet Brad Glynn (if you’ve already met him, you know he’s a hell of a nice guy) from 12:30-2pm — he’s the co-owner of Lift […]
MoreWant to cut down on your carnivorous eating habits? @Atlantic_Food promotes the “Meatless Monday” pledge, @CommonRoots just harvested fresh broccoli from their garden for a deli salad, @Aebleskiver launches a new blog (still pretty new but there’s a promising recipe for homemade Irish cream), @318Cafe cooks up a raw foods dinner this Sunday, and @UptownMarket […]
MoreFree beer and wine samples and tastes of Riverbend Farm produce are all fine reasons to attend Food and Farm Days from 11am-2pm on Sunday, July 19 at Common Roots. If that’s not enough: an opportunity to meet the farmer, tour the garden, and enjoy some music might tip you over the edge.
MoreRick heralds the arrival of Anchor Fish & Chips in Northeast, a quick Q&A with Wolfgang Puck from AndrewZimmern.com (check out our interview, too, if you missed it), a big ol’ Strib tour of Wisconsin microbreweries, Mecca visits Bulldog St. Paul, and Common Roots writes about (and produces a video on) Riverbend Farm.
MoreI scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM! @UptownMarket reminds us all to celebrate National Ice Cream Month — try the homemade goat milk variety that @ChefShack1 is making. @SurdyksLiquor offers 20-35% off thousands of wines through July 25th as a part of their summer wine sale, @CommonRoots is featuring CSA Riverbend Farm […]
MoreA French menu over at Camacho Watcho’s cooking club, Tour de Farm butchers six pigs so that we might live, She Loves Me Cake from Heavenly Cake Place, kind words for us from Andrew Zimmern, Anna from True Thai stacks her food up against Applebee’s (calorie for calorie), Tastebud Tart tells you what the deuce […]
MoreNew hours and a new late night happy hour at Common Roots in Uptown. Hours are now 7am-11pm weekdays, 8am-11pm weekends. Happy hours run from 3-6pm and 9-11pm every day, and feature $3 beers, $4 selected wines, and $5 appetizers.
MoreBeer release party tomorrow night (Wednesday, Apr. 1) at 7pm at Common Roots Cafe, to celebrate Surly’s new Bitter Brewer. Quoting the Common Roots website: “Bitter Brewer is an American-style Bitter. Pale orange in color, this ale gets its intense toast and marmalade character from British malts and American hops. Dry hopping lends the floral […]
MoreCommon Roots is hiring a cook for their expansion into the catering market [hat tip: Kris], Katie has a spiffy write-up and photo set on Barrio, MNBeer reports that Summit is rolling out a new year-round beer this spring, and the Captain’s Chair reports on the Surly beer dinner at the Happy Gnome.
MoreLiveGreenTwinCities interviews Common Roots owner Danny Schwartzman, Red Pepper makes the totally reasonable assertion that French wine labels are damn near incomprehensible, Food Snobbery reports (with video!) from The Organic Farming Conference and The Captain’s Chair gives Town Hall Batch 1000 an A minus.
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