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Food & Wine’s Local Tour and Morning Roundup
Food & Wine lauds local restaurants including Travail, The Bachelor Farmer, and HauteDish (plus: Andrew Zimmern’s local picks and photos from our own Becca Dilley in the print edition); Howl at the Moon closes (alternately: The Shout House wins the piano bar duel); details on the Lynn; 2012’s farm families of the year; an early […]
MoreBirdhouse Preview and Morning Roundup
A knoephla soup quest, the Wedge co-op begins bargaining with its warehouse workers union, tasting notes for Millstream Brewing’s German Pilsner, a preview of Birdhouse, a chef’s guide to shopping the Hmongtown Marketplace (here are five tastes from that market), and the Wild Onion loses an appeal to overturn a rejection of its patio liquor […]
MoreTrouble at Homi and the Morning Roundup
A visit to Old Sugar Distillery (read our profile here), the USDA’s Rural Cooperatives magazine profiles the Wedge’s warehouse / distribution system, the Mankato food guide to end all Mankato food guides, trouble at Homi leads a fan to urge more people to stop by, and the Dari-ette Drive-in held a party for their 60th […]
MorePrairie Breeze and Morning Roundup
Tomorrow is the Wedge Co-op’s 3rd annual plant and garden sale, Bill Roehl buries Burger Jones in Burnsville with faint praise (“an incredibly expensive burger joint ripping people off is way better than an empty Blockbuster”), Cheese and Champagne writes up Prairie Breeze cheese from Iowa (here’s our own story), DeRusha presents five must-drink summer […]
MoreBlack Sheep STP Now Open and March 8 Tweet Rodeo
@CommonRoots plans to tap one of @Peace_Coffee + @FultonBeer’s four firkins of War+Peace this Thursday, @BlackSheepPizza’s new St. Paul location opened yesterday at 4:30 following some mechanical issues, @The_Wedge emerges unscathed from yet another commercial peanut butter recall (it seems there are more advantages to buying better peanut butter than just taste), and @Smack_Shack still […]
MoreTweet Competitions and July 29 Tweet Rodeo
@The_Wedge revamps their croissants, @Scott_Pampuch competes with @DeRushaEats, @Untiedts unveils their first canteloupe of the season, @WeeklyDish polls for best cupcakes, and @StephMarch rants about poorly capitalized menus.
MoreThe Cheese World Cup and June 30 Tweet Rodeo
@France44Cheese continues their world cup cheese-off; @FoxyFalafel will make an appearance at the @WalkerArtCenter next Sunday, July 11; @The_Wedge offers discounts on “pun-ny” smoothies; @SorellaWines discusses “efficient wine-making”; and @YoungChef2 makes foie gras hot dogs.
MoreMay 12 Morning Roundup
The Wedge Co-op is having a Compost & Garden Truckload Sale, The Well Fed Guide to Life heads out to Namaste Cafe and brings along Mom, a reported 1,000 kinds of beer at the upcoming downtown St. Paul Vines and Steins shop, and Rachel profiles Kevin Doyle (the man behind Forest Mushrooms).
MoreMay 5 Tweet Rodeo
@Amy_Boland revels in #Rampstravaganza, @France44Cheese offers fresh Italian burrata, @The_Wedge has the first local strawberries of the season — “from Farmington to table,” @FourFirkins samples Great Lakes today, and @BryantLakeBowl provides buy one get one bowling during happy hour through tomorrow — just say “Twitter.”
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