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Jason DeRusha
Egg Salad in Downtown Minneapolis and April 11 Tweet Rodeo
The latest from Twitter: @The_Wedge is hiring, @CooknWheels nears the end of their Kickstarter campaign, @DeRushaEats collects suggestions for a good egg salad sandwich downtown, and @sweetlandorchrd mourns an apple crop lost to cool weather.
MoreFried Pickles at Hazel’s and April 4 Tweet Rodeo
The latest from Twitter: @dandelionktchn is hiring cooks; @DeRushaEats praises the fried pickles @HazelsNE; and @Masu_NE, @T_McKee, and many others congratulate Minneapolis alumni Erik Anderson and Josh Habiger on being named @fandw’s Best New Chefs for @CatbirdRestrnt in Nashville.
MoreLou Snider Retiring from Nye’s and Morning Roundup
The MLBA’s latest flip-flop on the Surly brewery (they’re against it again), a slate of Mspmag Restaurant Week picks, what may be the world’s first photo of a wedding ring atop hotdish, MNMO’s doing a booze book giveway, Nye’s piano player Sweet Lou Snider is wrapping up her career this Saturday night, a brief interview […]
MoreNew Scenic Roadtrip and Morning Roundup
Bloggers hit New Scenic Cafe and Marla’s (our brief on Marla’s is here), Trout Caviar talks escabeche, a plausible bid to rename the invasive Asian carp the “Cyprinia” and get it onto tables everywhere, and DeRusha chows down in Hollywood.
More501 Club Closing and Inter-Holiday Roundup
The 501 Club is closing its doors for good on Jan. 8, 2011; Cake Eater Bakery is expanding its savory menu and Owner Sheela Namakkal is taking a position with The Bleeding Heart Bakery in Chicago; the Well Fed Guide to Life podcast is coming down to the wire vis-a-vis its Kickstarter efforts to raise […]
MoreFarewell to the Creamery and Morning Roundup
The Creamery restaurant and B&B shuts down (read about our visit here), DeRusha’s madeleine is smoked butt, two Dunn Bros. employees are robbed and beaten in Uptown, Ryan Aberle is out at Purple Sandpiper, Corner Table’s new menu is up, the new Lift Bridge brewery in progress is starting to look pretty danged fancy, a […]
MorePig Uteri, Awkward Photos, and Morning Roundup
CNN profiles a Minnesota farmer who’s fighting one of the Gulf of Mexico’s biggest “dead zones,” G Sheaves goes white wine tasting at a local Trader Joe’s, Jason DeRusha says a photo of our State Fair team depicts a “group of goofballs” [image of DeRusha provided for context here], a blogger praises Subo (our considerably […]
MoreLong Live Independent Food Trucks! and August 5 Tweet Rodeo
@HeidisMpls visits and talks up Salt Spring Island goat cheese, @SwedeHollowCafe hosts a photo contest, @ChefShack1 justifies the street food movement (and comments on the influx of mobile corporate outposts), @Organic_Valley sweetens the pot for its latest contest by donating $1 for each entry, @DearDara and @DeRushaEats speak highly of Smack Shack (despite the drug pusher-esque […]
MoreTweet Competitions and July 29 Tweet Rodeo
@The_Wedge revamps their croissants, @Scott_Pampuch competes with @DeRushaEats, @Untiedts unveils their first canteloupe of the season, @WeeklyDish polls for best cupcakes, and @StephMarch rants about poorly capitalized menus.
MoreFoxy, Heroic Falafel and Morning Roundup
Foxy Falafel rides to the rescue of Swede Lake Farms (see first comment), DeRusha recaps his Chefs For Change dinner with JD Fratzke (we covered a CFC event in April), details on the upcoming Fair Food Fight event (which sounds great), and some interesting classes coming this fall taught by beer Cicerone Michael Agnew.
MoreA Tom Emmer Showdown and Morning Roundup
DeRusha hunts down some good restaurants that welcome kids, a thrilling (seriously! thrilling!) account of the stormy Tom Emmer meeting vis-a-vis rescinding the minimum wage for restaurant servers, the first look at Summit’s newest Unchained beer (Belgian style golden ale), Schell’s is hiring a brewer [via MNBeer], fun with chanterelles, Teddy endorses the veggie burger […]
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