Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
The latest from Twitter: @RinataMpls now serves Sunday brunch, @perennialplate shares favorite moments from the road in their season finale, and @gaigaithai will teach Thai rice secrets tomorrow @LindenHillsCoop.
MoreSkyway favorite Zen Box is opening an izakaya-themed place in the Warehouse district this August, G. Sheaves talks up the Old Fashioned at Rinata and Templeton Rye (we profiled Templeton — it has a great backstory), Crystal tries Spoon in Apple Valley (if they don’t have a cocktail called the Cherry Bomb, they need to […]
MoreWhen Pop! St. Paul went down, it cost the city $96K, the Well Fed Guide to Life heads out to Rinata and talks about the Food & Wine Experience (and kicks off its giveaway of Heavy Table staffer-written book Minnesota Lunch: From Pasties to Banh Mi), the downtown St. Paul Tea Garden is kaput, a […]
MoreThe chefs at Ichiban walk out, Bill assesses Manitou Station and cheerfully wages class warfare, three recommended pizzas by Mecca from Savoy, Leaning Tower, and Rinata, a silent auction at Summit for the Highland Friendship Club, the Depot Tavern next door to First Ave will provide a live feed to the performances in the Main […]
More@RinataMpls plans farm-fresh specials for this weekend, @ChefShack1 describes the Indian smoked kokum, @CocoaAndFig prepares for Memorial Day Weekend (with cake ball lollipops!), and @PunchPizza plans a discount to compensate for yesterday’s AmEx glitch.
MoreLooks like the unapologetic coffee snobs / possibly plain old snobs at Kopplin’s are costing themselves a bit of business, Bakerella visits Minneapolis and digs the cupcakes at Yum! (too bad they missed Salty Tart, though…), Vegetarian Perspective writes up and photographs that fascinating Orpheus and Eurydice picnic operetta, Mecca is worried about Rinata, and […]
MoreKathie Jenkins gets caught off guard by the mandatory service charge at Bradstreet (Tanpopo does this too, for what it’s worth), Les Petites Images takes the Marx Foods foie gras duck sausage challenge, a lovely series of shots of vegan food by caterers Asase Yaa in our Flickr pool, Trout Caviar goes fishing in Wisconsin […]
MoreKatie Cannon visits Meritage for Metromix, Rick Nelson checks out Rinata in Uptown and hails its “familiar, crowd-pleasing food,” the Strib reports that the Hotel Ivy is now offering daily afternoon tea ($15, $22 with sparkling wine or sherry), Chowhounds direct inquisitive Wisconsinites to the perch and bluegill fish fry at the Red Stag, and […]
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