After running around the Twin Cities for the better part of a month eating tacos, I can’t do it. I just can’t put old-school, traditional tacos in the same category as the new-school, anything-goes Millennial tacos that have come to define the last decade’s food as surely as quiche defined the 1980s and tall food defined the 1990s. So if you want old-school, traditional, homeland-connected…
Kalimotxo: Spain’s Summer Sipper
(Sponsored) Kalimotxo is a perfect and extremely easy alternative for probably my most favorite summer quaff, Sangria. Here’s what you’ll need…
Top Dogs—The Best Hot Dogs in the Twin Cities!
Chef Mike DeCamp spends his nights leading the ultra fine dining kitchen at La Belle Vie — and his days off sampling the Twin Cities best encased meats. He contributed a fantastic, personal top hot dog list to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine’s June issue, our Best of Summer. There are some great things in the magazine, including Steph March and my insider’s look at Tiki Bars, Pizza…
Best Food With a View: My Top 5 Minnesota Dining Spots
The holy grail of the Minnesota summer: A spot with a staggering view, and fantastic food. Does it exist? Yes! Of course, we all know of the summer hot spots with great views and average, to be kind, food. And we know the places with cozy green patios and good food—but they’re not ‘Wow, look at that!’ tourist destinations. Is there anywhere you can you…
Big News: Chef Jim Christiansen Departs Union, Announcing: Heyday!
Who wants some big news? Here’s a doozy: Jim Christiansen, chef of one of 2012’s hottest restaurants, Union, the giant place with the retractable roof, has departed, in preparation of opening his new place, Heyday.
Hey-oh! Christiansen is one of the most talented of the younger generation of chefs, a protégé of Tim McKee’s. Christiansen did brilliant work at Uptown’s failing Il Gatto…
Thomas Keller Comes to Minneapolis?!
How glad are you that Thomas Keller, American treasure, founder of French Laundry and Per Se, has a new cookbook, Bouchon Bakery? You’re soooooo glad, because holy cow, he’s coming to Minneapolis for a once-in-a-lifetime reception at La Belle Vie! All the deets in the press release below, and keep these numbers in mind—only 125 tickets, each $250, on June 18. Whoa!
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Fair State Brewing—The Return of Craft 3.2?!
Does anyone in this beer-mad state remember three-two? That would be beer at or below 3.2 percent alcohol, which is all that used to be permitted in south Minneapolis, south of 31st street, in the benighted days before 1997. Friends of mine who grew up here used to call them “whizzy bars” because of the biological side effects of how much you’d have to drink to…
Official Preview: Pig Ate My Pizza Opens Friday!
We’re all up to speed on the fact that Travail, the nationally acclaimed molecular gastronomy garage band, has closed, right? Closed so that it could split into three new restaurants, namely a new, snazzy Travail, a cocktail bar and small plate spot called The Rookery, and a pizza spot, Pig Ate My Pizza. The first of those two are slated for a fall…
Top Five Sustainable Seafood Restaurants in the Twin Cities
You know that the passenger pigeon is extinct—but do you know why? Because they were delicious—in pies, roast, potted, broiled, stuffed, pan-seared. And where were the passenger pigeon rescue societies when Midwesterners were netting passenger pigeons by the thousand, and sending them off to New York piled on the decks of ships? Nowhere. I found this out while I was researching a jaw-dropping fish story,…
Top 5 Drive-In Restaurants—Is Spring Here Yet?
Anyone remember spring? Long revered as a snow-free season, many older Midwesterners recall “spring” as a time of year when trees sprouted “leaves” and people rolled down their car windows to admit air warmed by the “sun.” We’ll see.
But should this blessed season ever arrive—and should you want to go out and see it for yourself—how about a drive-in restaurant? The drive-ins are open!…
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is a senior editor at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. See bioHeard It Here
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