Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Rachel reviews gourmet Chinese joint Tian Jin and Stillwater’s Domacin, Stephanie at Msp.St. Paul eats the Salty Dog chocolate bar, Brett at Trout Caviar is already eating local greens, and The Captain’s Chair is using cherry wood-smoked malt to make some wicked delicious-looking smoked porter beer.
MorePhilip Dorwart of Mpls.St.Paul hails the annual return of the California-grown asparagus, the Como Avenue Jug Band will be rocking Brit’s Pub tonight (pst, Brit’s Pub, it’s not the “Coma Avenue Jug Band”), and Eating Minnesota wants to know how much to tip a bartender around here.
MoreEd Kohler puts his finger on what’s wrong with many restaurant websites and also IDs a solution, MNBeer has all the best haps at the Muddy Pig, The American Burger is opening at 345 N. Wabasha in St. Paul next week (via Surly’s Twitter channel), and Chowhounds chat about a new location of the Afghan […]
MoreThere’s a Bell’s Oberon release party at Bryant Lake Bowl Mar. 30 from 8-11pm featuring $3 pints and a fake tan contest (note: tans must be applied outside the restaurant), the Strib reports on a new Irish bar called Cooper by Kieran Folliard (of Kieran’s), cheese carving is going down at Sam’s Club today and […]
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.
MoreAn excellent write-up on Paired from Rachel (read ours here), Beer Wars Live (which appears to be a celebratory ode to Dogfish Head) hits Twin Cities theaters April 16, Norwegianity uses the Heavy Table as a stout club with which to beat City Pages, these aprons are rad even if they are for the ladies, […]
MoreHar Mar Superstar will be guest bartending at two Grumpy’s locations this Wednesday and Saturday [via City Pages], Iggers talks to chef/author Raghavan Iyer of the upcoming pan-regional Indian restaurant Om, Chowhound leeniebeanie kneecaps The Strip Club, the Suggestion Boxer does a fake meat rundown, and Brian of East-Lake.net digs what Jasmine 26 is cooking […]
MoreMag reports on the Create catering beer dinner featuring Jeff Williamson and his Flat Earth brews, Bill Roehl polls readers on chain restaurants after having a lousier-than-usual time at Chili’s, Iggers plugs a special March 14 hot pot dinner at ChinDian Café, Liz of Food Snobbery loses a loaf of gluten-free foccacia to a dog […]
MoreStewart “Shefzilla” Woodman pays homage to Rick Nelson and backhands Chino Latino, Metro rounds up some high-end bargains (Barbette, Meritage, etc.), The Stillwater Gazette covers the silver anniversary of the Lake Elmo Inn, it’s hard to believe the 25 Friday fish fries listed over at the PiPress are actually “favorites,” but nice job on the […]
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.
MoreZimmern flips, with good reason, over Michelle Gayer’s work at Salty Tart (and suggests that Midtown Global Market may be “running on fumes”), some nice Cheeky Monkey photos by Katie Cannon at Metromix, Tour de Farm offers multicourse summer meals by big-name chefs on farms for a mere $85 (gack) a head [hat tip: Stephanie […]
MoreMpls.St.Paul spotlights a couple choice gyros, Iggers spends $17 on a “pretty good” carry-on turkey dinner at the airport, Rachel imagines what it might be like to eat 50 oz. of beef at one sitting, Chowhounds agree that the latest incarnation of Town Talk passes muster, and Bill at Lazy Lightning tees off on CNN […]
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