Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
A sketchbook journey to Mozza Mia, a mixed and / or rave review for Travail, Surly and Fulton join the beers at Target Field, the Lyn-Lake Trader Joe’s may be doomed by hater “no go”s, reviews of Eat Street Pizza and West Bank Diner (here’s ours of the latter), a taste of Dave’s BrewFarm Iron […]
MoreThe story behind the Eat for Equity benefit dinners, wine book recommendations by La Belle Vie’s Bill Summerville (including Drink This), details on the new Urban Bean, DeRusha loves Mozza Mia, Summit’s new Unchained beer will be a black ale, and some details on four new ciders by Crispin.
MoreZimmern dines at Mozza Mia and kneecaps it: “The cooking itself was deft, but the ingredients and formatting were oddly more Nashville than Naples. And when it comes to pizza, that ain’t good.” But the blog You Care What We Think visits and digs the meal, concluding: “I’d recommend this place to anyone.” Our review? […]
MoreThe owner of Aster Cafe is turning Preston’s into Republic; Nestle may acquire General Mills; the Living Green Expo at the State Fairgrounds on May 7-8 will include more than 300 exhibitors and / or activities; Iggers pens a convincing survey of how local Somali food is moving toward the mainstream (see also: our story […]
MoreThe 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 […]
MoreDetails on the debut of the 50th Street Cafe in the recently closed Pearson’s space; one possible Vikings stadium site would displace the Minneapolis Farmers Market; Tempest Oyster Bar (a spinoff of the Tornado Steakhouse) will replace Restaurant Magnus in Madison; a winter citrus fruitshare recap (and a post about opal apples); the Well Fed […]
MoreBobby Kahn debuts the Tim and Eric-esque Pizza Time show on MPLS.TV, a roundup of local ways to give back to the community this Thanksgiving, Zimmern offers good insight into what might make the upcoming Pizzeria Lola special, Marianne Miller loves the look and feel of BLVD (Rick concurs, saying that owner Dean Vlahos “deftly […]
MoreRIP Derrick’s and Cru, Town Hall is opening a second location (in South Minneapolis), some thoughts on Marla’s (note: We’ve experienced exactly the same missing doubles thing; complain bitterly if it happens to you), the new Parasole place at 50th and France will be called Mozza Mia, Target Field is breathing some new life into […]
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