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 hotspots 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 go for off-the-charts…
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!…
Too Early Review: Morrissey’s Irish Pub; And the Top 5 Minneapolis Fish and Chips!
The strangest restaurant in the history of Minnesota, in my humble opinion, has got to be the performance-art-for-dinner bizarre Miami, a Scarface-themed restaurant that lived a brief, incomprehensible, but truly memorable life at 913 W. Lake Street, just outside of the throbbing heart of Uptown. Once it closed, taking its white table telephones, its endless loop of Scarface, and it’s profanity-riddled drink list, its sunset…
Burch: A Too-Early Review, and How to Succeed, With your Wife
All of Minneapolis is giddy about Burch, the magnificently airy and urban bistro and steakhouse, and basement pizza grotto, which is also the third, and largest restaurant, from Isaac Becker, the James Beard Award winner for best chef Midwest in 2011. His first two restaurants, of course, were 112 Eatery and Bar La Grassa, each of which opened and…
The Rookery Details: Sandwiches, Fun Microplates, and Molecular Crazy Travail-Style Cocktails
Everywhere I go people keep asking, “How is it possible Travail could close?”
“Will it be the same? And what is up with the new locations? Sure, the coming pizza place, Pig Ate My Pizza, which will serve pizza topped with house-made pork products such as sausage and pepperoni makes intuitive sense, but they can’t really be opening a sandwich shop called The…
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