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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cult pizza, it’s in full flower in Minnesota now. And it’s all due to Ann Kim, and her Cinderella story—or rather, her Cinderella’s…
Sit down, Minneapolis. And Robbinsdale, get smelling salts. We all know that Minnesota’s hottest restaurant, little molecular-gastronomy budget performance-arthouse Travail, has been trying to line up a bigger, snazzier home. Well, it’s aligned. And the old Travail is closing April 6. Yes, in two weeks!
When it closes, it will go dark for a bit, and, as soon as a pizza oven can…
I caught up with Dermot Cowley, owner of Minneapolis’ second-best known Irish Bar empire, now four-strong, all under the umbrella of the company named Irish Born Hospitality, and currently including O’Donovan’s in downtown Minneapolis, Jake O’Connor’s in Excelsior, Lola’s Lakehouse in Waconia, and JJ Murphy’s in Blaine. The best-known Minnesota Irish bar empire is of…
What happens when two Burnsville best friends and vintage-shopping fiends go on a road trip? Stuff that puts a whole lot of heavy…
How many truck-to-bricks-and-mortar restaurants can one metropolitan area hold? Don’t answer that question before factoring in one more: Sushi Fix, the sushi truck sensation of last summer is about to open in Wayzata.
But first: Sushi in a truck? If you weren’t one of the many converted-skeptics of last summer, truck sushi is a very good thing. At least it is, from…
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