Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
I surfed for news late last night and ended up with a fistful of City Pages. Thusly… Rachel concurs with our stance on the end of civilization itself (aka cold tables at Northeast Social), Koyi Sushi in Seward is really and truly open, the Buddha’s hand fruit is weird looking but can be used to […]
MoreDara, writing in Minnesota Monthly, has penned what may be the first non-gushing thing yet written about the insanely popular Bar La Grassa. “Most of what I tried tasted unfinished,” she writes of the appetizers; most pasta “was good but not great”; and of the carrot cake: “Ever been to a wedding? It’s that carrot […]
MoreDara has the scoop on the perpetually mysterious Rachel’s space across from Kramarczuk’s in Northeast. It’s finally going to open! It’ll be serving “non-chef-driven food” as early as January, but, more likely, sometime in early spring of 2010.
MoreA mediation on summer’s bounty — in list form — at the Corner Table’s blog, Dara fields a fishy-looking letter (is someone seriously demanding a $1000 formally attired meal these days?) and urges the plebes to cry out for blood, Food Snobbery gets down to the Seed Savers conference in Iowa, and Heavenly Cake Place […]
MoreA detailed dispatch on the doings at D’Amico via Dara. The closing of D’Amico Cucina, the opening of a new Italian (not “Northern Italian,” not “Southern Italian”) mystery project, the fate of chefs and staff — much is disclosed, more still is speculated upon.
MoreMetro Magazine presents thirteen of the best bakeries in the Twin Cities, a rundown of Friday fish fries by Stephanie March over at Mpls.St.Paul, Stewart “Shefzilla” Woodman Dee Wayne tears into the Mpls.St.Paul readers’ picks for best restaurants with righteous and well-founded anger (Best Seafood… #4 Red Lobster… Christ!), and Dear Dara wimps out by […]
MoreIggers reports from Singapore, Dara reports on recession-busters such as Black Sheep, The Blue Door and Bulldog Lowertown, Nelson rounds up all manner of Thai food, Zimmern plugs Gastro Non Grata at the Triple Rock, Hutton talks up the new planned gastropub Gas-tro-nome, and Metro Magazine rounds up the best pizza… defined here as essentially […]
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