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Too Early Review: World Street Kitchen

By: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Posted: November 29, 2012

Lemongrass Meatball Wrap

It’s here. It’s clear. It’s a force to be reckoned with.

Those are my first thoughts after a couple of visits to just-opened…

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Bachelor Farmer Catastrophe!

By: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Posted: November 28, 2012

Did you hear the one about The Marvel Bar and the faulty shelf? Bartender Pip Hanson is remarkable in a crisis, watch this security cam footage and watch to the absolute end—then share! If we’re smart about it this could be the Minneapolis’ artisanal cocktail scene’s best chance to get on America’s Funniest Home Videos

 

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Union Countdown: Open 11/19, Complete With Millennium Falcon Area & Hay-Smoked Cream Cheese

By: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Posted: November 20, 2012

What’s Minnesota’s best new restaurant of 2012? Whatever it is—Butcher & The Boar? Icehouse? Birdhouse? The Lynn?—the running just got tighter, because Union, believe it or not, is about to open.

The details: Union, of course, is the project by the folks behind the Crave-pire, helmed by rising-star chef Jim Christiansen, formerly of Il Gatto in its unknown excellent phase, and protégé of…

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Thanksgiving Transformed: Jim Kyndberg Bolts Crave for FireLake!

By: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Posted: November 1, 2012

Big changes in downtown Minneapolis: Chef Jim Kyndberg has left the Crave empire. (Crave-pire? Craveocracy? Cravenation? If you live here you have to know what a big thing it is, right?). But oh yes, Kyndberg, former chef-owner of the famed and lamented Bayport Cookery, and recent chef-in-residence at the locally spawned, now national powerhouse, Crave, where he masterminded the awfully good, and best-happy-hour-with-a-view Urban Eatery,…

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