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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 […]
MoreAmerica’s Test Kitchen Hits the Iron Range and Morning Roundup
America’s Test Kitchen heads to Hibbing in search of porketta; Zimmern trumpets the (as of yet unconfirmed) exodus of Dara from Minnesota Monthly to MSP Mag; photo outtakes from our Silver Whisk profile of Chef Alejandro Castillon of Sonora Grill; the almost invariably positive Southwest Journal writes that Eat Street Social “disappoints”; chefs from Travail, […]
MoreOvertaxed Minneapolis Restaurant Checks and Morning Roundup
Minneapolis restaurant checks come with a higher tax than in any other major city in the US, a record-sized eelpout is caught (and here’s how to cook it if it’s too ugly to wall-mount), the Angry Catfish will give out free doughnuts on Saturday, there’s an event at Spoonriver today to raise money for better […]
MoreZimmern vs. Charlie and Morning Roundup
A look at the Caribbean-themed San Pedro Cafe in Hudson, a review of Big Daddy’s BBQ in St. Paul, the ins and outs of wheatberries, the Well Fed Guide to Life heads to Pig & Fiddle, Tricia Cornell guest stars over at City Pages and writes up Pat’s Tap, Andrew Zimmern struggles heroically to seem […]
MoreOutstate Dining Highlights and Morning Roundup
Andrew Zimmern is picking up a contributing editor gig at Food & Wine (per the press release: “Zimmern will bring exclusive recipes to foodandwine.com in a new weekly column, ‘Andrew Zimmern’s Kitchen Adventures,’ inspired by the recipes he makes at home in Minnesota”), some leaf watching-inspired outstate eats, a pie crust baking and taste test, […]
MoreThe New Urban Bean and Morning Roundup
A tasty selection of local cheeses, Trout Caviar breaks down the details of smoking a duck breast, Omar from Surly makes the cover of Beer Advocate, a sneak peek at the new Urban Bean on Lyndale, and Andrew Zimmern wears a disguise and promotes CASCAL soda (which, incidentally, is great stuff).
MoreZombies, Morels, Doughnuts, and Morning Roundup
Zombie Pub Crawl is back for more (with two locations), Victory 44 racks up a passionate service complaint on par with those aimed at sorta-sister restaurant Travail, some gorgeous shots of Masu Sushi and Robata, morels morels ramps morels and ramps and morels and berries, Trattoria da Vinci impresses a blogger with “one of the […]
MoreCommunity Ed Cooking Classes and Morning Roundup
Rachel visits the world of community ed cooking classes, Zimmern’s poignant holiday wish, and a smart and detailed analysis of that bedeviled and beguiling appetizer, the terrine.
MoreCookie Reveal Day and Morning Roundup
It’s cookie contest reveal day at the Star Tribune (featuring the stellar food photography of Tom Wallace), Rick’s dining diary (featuring Blackbird, Amici Pizza, and more), Winterfest sells out in less than a minute, Zimmern interviews Stewart Woodman, and there will be a big tea sampling this weekend at Mrs. Kelly’s Tea’s warehouse.
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