The new, larger Travail location should help break the massive waits and return it to neighborhood restaurant status (pictured above, a beet foam-driven dish; read about Travail’s anti-griddle here). The story behind the locally legendary Lindquist family Christmas sausage. An autopsy of the long-closed Viking Bar on the West Bank. Rare as a unicorn: an unambiguously negative local food review, by the PiPress, of the Bullpen in St. Paul. A look at Jack Pine Brewery in the Brainerd Lakes area. A taste of the eight-course banquet menu at Pagoda (Tangentially related, but always worth mentioning: “A dog… a plan… a canal… Pagoda!”) And Tracy’s Saloon gears up to celebrate Festivus.