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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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Marvel Bar, Bachelor Farmer Secret Total Cocktail Overhaul + Tastemakers Cocktail Ticket Giveaway

You do know about the upcoming Tastemakers event at the Ritz Theater on Wednesday, March 13, right? This is a new series we, the good people of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, are putting on. Imagine Inside the Actors Studio, but instead of one actor there are three or four important local folks working in a particular aspect of food or drink, and instead…

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Is Michelle “Salty Tart” Gayer Going to Star In CBS’s Great American Bake Off? Plus, Minneapolis Cakewalk, Feb. 28

Is Michelle Gayer, local superstar baker behind Minneapolis fave bakery Salty Tart, about to be launched into the reality cooking show stratosphere as a judge on the forthcoming CBS show the Great American Bake Off? This was the first question I needed to ask her when I called up to find out about her annual charity Cakewalk. The reason I needed to ask…

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

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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