Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
@ParkTavernSLP will host a chef’s dinner (four courses, four wines with each course) on July 15th, @commonroots offers four beers from @surlybrewing on tap, @zoebakes raves about Hand Rolled Butter by Rochdale Farms, and @GrandCafe_MPLS adds fried green tomatoes (from their garden!) to their lunchtime meatloaf sliders.
More@StarTribune asks readers if the stigma from using coupons at dinner has disappeared, @sloped shares the proposed Minneapolis patio rules, @Barrio_Truck and @128cafe head to St. Paul today for #FoodTruckCourt, @GrandCafe_MPLS will be at the music, booze, and food bash Gastro Non Grata on July 9, @leezukor promotes Youth Farm and Market Project’s fundraiser this […]
More@StanleysBarRoom offers free burgers Tuesday evening for their Facebook fans, @EatWSK1 reopens for the season, @FreshTartSteph announces the next #MNFoodBloggers event (at @HeidisMpls), @LeeZukor lauds his meal at @GrandCafe_MPLS, and @Smack_Shack’s credit card machine is down for the week — so if you go for a lobster roll, come prepared with cash!
More@ChinoLatino runs a QR code treasure hunt for a free cocktail, @HauteDish just launched a new menu, @CafeTwentyEight commends Eversharp for the “best customer service ever,” @JaxMpls offers 30% off all single malts this evening, and @GrandCafe_MPLS demonstrates how to make a chicken skin sushi roll.
MoreRick looks at the new chefs of Grand Cafe, Cafe Maude, and Porter & Frye (see also: our interview with Sarah Master) and previews the word salad that is Thom Pham’s Wondrous Azian Kitchen; G Sheaves digs the 2009 Alexis Bailly Seyval Blanc; Rachel does a stellar job of rounding up the five worst restaurant […]
MoreAn obituary for Jon Radle, executive chef of the Grand Cafe. The Onion interviewed him and fellow up-and-comer Ben Pichler last July, and he won last year’s Local Chef Challenge at the Food & Wine Experience. We talked to him about Grand Cafe’s toast and to him and Pichler about house-made condiments last December. Some […]
MoreA profile of the Minneapolis Healthy Corner Store Program, Teddy raves up the sweet chorizo sandwich at France 44, Zimmern loves Target Field but hates the soft serve (“the worst ice cream I have ever tasted”), Rachel profiles Daniel Klein of Perennial Plate (whose latest episode, on an event at Two Pony Gardens farm, is […]
MoreA Chowhound has a pickled cranberry disaster at Grand Cafe, the always useful City Pages month in review, the abridged version of Dara’s 99 best dishes under $10 (full version available in dead tree format only), Vicki Potts of Grass Roots Gourmet and Song Lee and Benjamin Roberts from France 44 talk about local versus […]
MoreAgri is on its way out and the Doug Flicker restaurant Piccolo will fill the void, Aaron from the Captain’s Chair liveblogs Surly Darkness Day, Vy at The Kitchen Bitch has a stellar post-stage meal at Grand Cafe, in praise of carrots, a Lift Bridge beer dinner at Kings Wine Bar, Bill Roehl buys 44 […]
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