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Layoffs, Kimchi, and Morning Roundup
A Minnesota craft beer show called Beer Geeks launches Sunday, Dec. 11 on KSTC-TV, Channel 45, deep thoughts on woodcock (don’t you dare laugh, it’s a serious bird with serious flavor), Schwan’s will lay off employees in its Marshall and Bloomington offices, Lift Bridge is playing around with a kimchi-infused Farm Girl called Chi Girl, […]
MoreTriple D Heads to Pizzeria Lola and Morning Roundup
MSP wins a couple national awards for its concessions (including Surdyk’s Flights — Best New Food and Beverage Concept), a tale of being on the set of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives at Pizzeria Lola (here’s our story from when the show went to Colossal Cafe and Kramarczuk’s), Tricia writes up the booming trend of Kickstarter […]
MoreEating at MSP and Morning Roundup
Rachel rounds up the best eating that MSP (the airport) has to offer, a blogger sounds off on some restaurants’ bewildering and pricetag-free oral recitation of nightly specials, a long-form interview with cheesemaker Andy Hatch (of Pleasant Ridge Reserve fame, and maker of the new Rush Creek), Cannon River Winery is producing a special dessert […]
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A New Sample Room
The Sample Room (2124 Marshall St., Minneapolis) has promoted Matt Paulson from Sous Chef to Executive Chef and overhauled its menu. New items include braised bison on mashed potatoes ($7), roasted squash risotto with rainbow chard, blue cheese, and toasted pumpkin seeds ($14), and wild mushroom ragout on polenta with truffle oil ($7.25).
MoreSeptember 14 Morning Roundup
The Sample Room adds a late night happy hour [PDF], the fight to save Bena’s Big Muskie Drive-In, Locally Grown Organic Vegetables from Outer Space, oh man a recipe for chocolate cinnamon rolls and, elsewhere, plum galette, Anna from True Thai meditates on alcohol and abstinence, and Mecca hails the east St. Paul Dari-ette.
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