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Andy Sturdevant advocates a mighty send-off for Nick and Eddie, a gorgeous Minnesota church basement food shoot, some praise for Black Sheep Pizza, the Well Fed Guide to Life heads to the Get Sauced food truck, and the Strib talks about how restaurants sometimes struggle to set sound levels.
MoreCafe Maude, the South Minneapolis bistro known for being at the forefront of the local craft cocktail scene, is opening a new location at soon-to-close Nick and Eddie, 1612 Harmon Place, Minneapolis. A staffer at Maude confirmed the move and said the new location should open next month; the original Maude will remain open as […]
MoreBrewing TV visits Surly, Downtown Journal writes up ChinDian, a Chowhound calls Nick and Eddie the worst restaurant in Minneapolis, Cafe Kem is set to reopen, a Winona couple is serious about their backyard bread oven, Dara touts Alsatian brioche manalas at Patrick’s Bakery, how to pair wine and Uptown Pad Thai (read the original […]
MorePondering why bakeries are closed on Sundays, insight into beef stroganoff, a chowhound rants about the service at Nick and Eddie, and Alemar camembert. I may post some more stuff later today. Right now, after six hours of Febgiving food and drink, I’m pretty well spent. Well fed and socialized. But spent.
MoreZimmern interviews Dara, Smashburger is open in Woodbury, Cafe Twenty Eight has an “amazing” fried egg sandwich, much love from Dara for Nick and Eddie’s high-value menu, how to go from raw pig heads to delicious head cheese, Harmony Valley Farm is hiring, Lileks on crops and vindaloo, deets on the upcoming Schell’s Bock Fest, […]
MoreThe reinvention of Nick and Eddie as told by Mecca, kisskiss angela looks at Il Gatto and sees Figlio, the exciting new 29-tap beer list at Preston’s on Cedar Ave., eloquent praise for The Craftsman on Chowhound, and Bill Roehl goes after Pardon My French for copyright violation.
MoreThat guy on Facebook calling himself “Chef Lenny Russo” is not, in fact, Chef Lenny Russo of Heartland. The real chef — we’re pretty sure — wrote a long column in the Star Tribune meditating on the sometimes elusive nature of online identity… and the general lack of legal recourse. (We wrote a few weeks […]
MoreA Twitter account called NickandEddie would clearly seem to be for the restaurant of the same name. But the bio reads: “Worst Resturant [sic] in Minneapolis,” and the URL directs to a dead page. Is this libel or commercially damaging to the point of being illegal? Free speech? The gray area of the law?
MoreThe HomeMade Pizza Co. opens a branch in Calhoun Commons, Dara’s got a shotgun blast of Nick and Eddie news updates and insights (booze crisis! not closing! simpler menu!), Green Your Plate does some cool stuff with corn, apparently the Pizza Farm also offers the world’s cutest kittens for adoption, Aaron from Captain’s Chair has […]
MoreZimmern dresses in drag and predicts a dark future for Nick and Eddie, how to make your own homemade bloody mary mix and ketchup at City Pages, Rachel’s back from vacation and sizing up shiny new remakes of grimy old favorites (on Galaxy Drive-In’s food: “all the appeal of a microwavable frozen dinner”), Well Fed […]
MoreDara is the latest (we’re apparently the last) to report on Steven Brown moving to Nick and Eddie, which she describes as a “foundling home for displaced chefs.” She also reports that Don Saunders of Fugaise apparently won’t find a home there, and revels in the opportunity to eat $8 bar plates cooked up by […]
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