Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
The restaurant winner of America’s Next Great Restaurant is still secret but is also now hiring, Common Roots is offering a Passover menu [PDF], consideration of whether Aquavit Restaurant (or Aquavit Cafe) would survive in Minneapolis 2011, Rick’s analysis of the closing of The Forum and Jim Ringo’s bad year in restaurants, a formula for […]
MoreRingo is closing (here’s our preview piece from not so long ago), “mass firings” of Latinos at Chipotle stir outrage, more backyard pig butchery photos, Cafe Bonxai has closed, Heidi’s is set to open 1-11-11, Bill Roehl posts a contrarian review of Pizza Nea, and Chris Hewitt on bacon popcorn at the ShowPlace ICON Theatre.
MoreEver wondered how to flip a skillet like a pro? @CafeCyan shares tips from yesterday’s MN Cooks event, @RingoRestaurant debuts an Argentinean menu, @StephMarch recommends Safari Express’ mango on a stick @MinnStateFair, @Northern_Brewer offers 10% off wine-making supplies, and @MCFarmersMkt hosts a fall harvest dinner and promises fresh lamb this weekend from Braucher’s Sunshine Harvest […]
MoreRyan Aberle, chef of ex-Cargill exec Jim Ringo’s restaurant in St. Louis Park, is out, save the date for the Furthermore Shitty Barn Party, how to make ricotta, a rundown of Taste of Minnesota food options, an overview of the new out-of-state brews to appear in the metro, Bull Run opens a standalone outpost in […]
MoreRachel reviews Ringo (“I’d rather see a restaurant do fewer things and do them well”), Well Fed Guide to Life interviews the Gastro Non Grata guys about their upcoming Vagabond Vacation show, WCCO’s list of 10 best pizza spots near the U of M includes Domino’s and Papa John’s (raising the question: What didn’t make […]
MoreAn abridged love letter to pie, the New York Times writes up Holy Land and its creative hummus, P.O.S. visits an NYC-based food videocast, Brewing TV visits Summit, the brewery list for the St. Paul Summer Beer Fest, South 12th drums up some good non-tonic-based gin cocktails, a friendly write-up in the Strib for the […]
MoreThe joy of a serious lamb roast on the farm, a splash of tart bloggy venom for Ringo, Rachel loves the fried chicken at Willy D’s (née Derrick’s) and thinks Mango Tango is mondo trashy, Well Fed Guide to Life hits the Tea House, and a pretty excellent looking Lift Bridge cigar dinner in Stillwater.
MoreThings Chef Chris likes about his job, Stubb’s BBQ and Great Big Cheese Cookbook giveaways, a brief note on Seward’s excellent bratwurst and other sausages, Ringo is in Belgium mode this month, deets on the next Furthermore Shitty Barn Party, MPLS.TV rages against the margaritas at Taco Bell, a farm dining roundup, Localicious documents a […]
MorePerennial Plate covers the contentious issue of Native American fishing rights, Zimmern rattles the Measuring Spoons of Highly Probable Doom for Ringo and the Forum, Rachel on the Aster Cafe reboot, Adam Platt sizes up the good sausages and bad pizza at Target Field, and Aaron weighs in on Red’s Savoy Pizza in Uptown (“I […]
MoreMecca gives Ringo a hearty thumbs down (“None of it was very well executed or presented”), Kim Ode on madeleines (in print and video), a CSA provided by “Minnesota’s only Jewish organic farmer,” urbanfoodie strikes a thoughtfully cautious note vis-a-vis street food, Fair Food Fight looks at Pastureland Dairy Cooperative and the ongoing dairy pricing […]
MoreLots of good stuff by Strib food writer Rick Nelson this week: An exploration of a few robust local gastronomic methuselahs (David Fong’s, Lindey’s Prime Steak House, and the Lowell Inn), an awesome directory of local restaurants aged 40 years and older, and a trip to the nascent food scene in West End (where 394 […]
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