Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
@HeidisMpls visits and talks up Salt Spring Island goat cheese, @SwedeHollowCafe hosts a photo contest, @ChefShack1 justifies the street food movement (and comments on the influx of mobile corporate outposts), @Organic_Valley sweetens the pot for its latest contest by donating $1 for each entry, @DearDara and @DeRushaEats speak highly of Smack Shack (despite the drug pusher-esque […]
MoreBrothers Deli will hit the streets, win a terrific-looking cheese plane, Rick likes the food at Forum but decries its lack of gastronomic identity, Shefzilla (the book!) is available for pre-order and it features fantastic photos by our own Kate NG Sommers, and a look at the cheeses of Sartori.
More@BlackCatNatFood warns against “line cook” as a career goal, @HeidisMpls is unimpressed by the stadium dugout dog, @FourFirkins carries gluten-free pear cider, and @CooksCrocusHill invites one and all to their upcoming shrimp boil.
MoreToday is Twins opener day on Target Field! In honor of the occasion, @GreenMill001 offers free wings for the duration of today’s game, @Princetons, @SurdyksLiquor, and @LongfellowGrill look forward to upcoming visits from the Deschutes “Woody Wagon,” @GoldenFig quotes Alice Waters, @BullRunCoffee troubleshoots bitter coffee, and @HeidisMpls gives Black Sheep pizza high marks.
MoreChef Stewart Woodman of Heidi’s offers his first post-fire thoughts on his blog, Shefzilla. “I feel OK in reality what happened yesterday was that a building burned, but what remains is what we always had. It was a great honor of my life to be your cook these years at Heidi’s.” UPDATE: Chef Woodman has […]
MoreStewart “Shefzilla” Woodman plays a variation on one of his themes (journalists = bad) and mauls Landon Schoenfeld in the process, Adam Platt turns up and trumpets the circulation numbers of MplsStPaul, and someone who may or may not be Steve Marsh (the “white CJ”) notes: “Dude, that’s mucked up. You take the one pot […]
MoreBill Roehl disembowels Molly Cool’s Seafood Tavern (“disgusting,” “a huge disappointment,” “ruined by sauces and blackening spices,” and more), a new fro-yo place called Frulala is on the way, arctic char is hot right now, a photo of the new Barrio truck, Hungry in SW tackles the topic of local restaurant marketing and offers praise […]
MoreBill Roehl has the scoop on the Black Dawg biker bar’s upcoming relocation, a good list of this month’s openings and closings over at City Pages, a full-on Vietnamese style meal at Chez Charles (including three recipes), the always illuminating Philip Dorwart explores the fish chop, Lenny Russo salutes Beard Award winner Tim McKee and […]
MoreShefzilla makes the following point: It’s “disappointing” when a restaurant is reviewed after being open for “only a few months.” Here’s a proposal: Restaurants should enjoy a review-proof grace period for as long as they give food away for free.
MoreStewart “Shefzilla” Woodman pays homage to Rick Nelson and backhands Chino Latino, Metro rounds up some high-end bargains (Barbette, Meritage, etc.), The Stillwater Gazette covers the silver anniversary of the Lake Elmo Inn, it’s hard to believe the 25 Friday fish fries listed over at the PiPress are actually “favorites,” but nice job on the […]
MoreMetro Magazine presents thirteen of the best bakeries in the Twin Cities, a rundown of Friday fish fries by Stephanie March over at Mpls.St.Paul, Stewart “Shefzilla” Woodman Dee Wayne tears into the Mpls.St.Paul readers’ picks for best restaurants with righteous and well-founded anger (Best Seafood… #4 Red Lobster… Christ!), and Dear Dara wimps out by […]
More