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…
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…
New Artisanal Tiki Bar + Another Tastemakers Ticket Giveaway!
Minnesota, are you tired of drinking of the same old, same old tiki drinks? Do you wish somebody would finally apply the from-crazy-scratch, all-killer no-filler ethos of top cocktail spots such as Eat Street Social to the tiki bar tradition? Well somebody is! And it’s Eat Street Social.
This summer the patio to the west of the building is going to…
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…
Bachelor Farmer Catastrophe!
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
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…
Warm, Weak, Watery Drinks at The Bachelor Farmer & Marvel Bar? Plus: Who Needs a Weekend Getaway? Bluefin Bay Wine Weekend
For my whole drinking life, warm, watery drinks were considered the worst possible drinks—but Pip Hanson, head bartender and guiding light behind the…
Super Seminar on the Twin Cities Beer Scene—Tuesday! Plus, Ticket Giveaway
Hey, what are you doing Tuesday night? At 6:30? Want to come and have a beer with me and four of…
Dara’s Surdyk’s Picks: Irresistible Whites
This round (which is part four of my wine picks at Surdyk’s) is for the budget-minded wine-snobs in the house: Think you can’t afford real German Riesling and white Bordeaux? Don’t think like that! You can. You really, really can.
Chateau Pailhas Blanc, 2010, $12.99
White Bordeaux is something of a mystery to most Americans—why would the world’s most renowned red wine region…
Dara’s Surdyk’s Picks: Rich & Irresistible
In this round of the fulfillment of my dream in which I help you actually buy wine in life, I present three sensuous options—two great reds, and a stunning dessert wine.
Domaine De La Roque, 2011, $12.49
Sensuous and rich, this 100 percent Cabernet Franc from the banks of the Aude river in southwestern France is a wine to fall in love with, if…
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