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So .. Who Bought The Lex?

It’s interesting how much buzz has been garnered for the mysterious new owners of The Lexington just by the small act of not revealing themselves.

I don’t even know why I was so intent on doing the digging, usually I just let that stuff play out, but I reached out to A LOT of…

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F3: Congradulations

The burden of being the food girl is expectation. For the upcoming grad party, I’ve changed the menu more than a few times based on everyone’s arched eyebrows when they ask, “What are YOU GUYS doing for food?” This is asked as we are happily noshing at someone else’s grad party on trucked in Mexican restaurant…

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A CRONUT? In Town?

If you’ve paid any attention to national food media lately, you’ll know that New Yawkers have gone cuckoo crazy for something called a CRONUT. Basically, the kids at the little Dominique Ansel Bakery decided to toss some croissant dough into the fryer in donut form and, voila, a new gender of fried dough was…

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F3: Graduated

Done and Done. My third-of-four kid is done with high school. I’m not really done with him yet. He still claims to hate cheese. Not like bleu cheese or the stinky cheese that I have for cheese happy hour every day, but just the general category of “cheese”. It’s kinda hinky, he’ll eat pizza and port…

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NOW CLOSED: Birdhouse

Just got off the phone with Heidi Woodman who called to tell me that today she has closed the doors at Birdhouse.

The second effort from Heidi and husband Stewart Woodman aimed to bring chef-driven everyday eating with a healthy beat to the rehabbed house on Hennepin.

On the restaurant’s Facebook, Heidi posted:

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Summer Eating Vacation

It’s time to start planning your summer get-a-way so that when you file your What I Did On Summer Vacation report with your lunch-room buddies and cubicle co-horts, you will have something brag-worthy. Stay tuned to us all summer for the goods on making it a tasty one, but I think I’m going to lead off…

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F3: In or Out

So the big question this Fresh Forkin’ Friday is: Are you IN or OUT? Are you staying IN town or getting OUT of town? Do you plan on staying IN and hosting or going OUT and whooping it up? Will you hunker down IN the tap room or will you score the last table OUT on…

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F3: Mayday, Mayday

I think it’s the simultaneous winding down and cranking up that makes May so insane. School/kids are winding down and the fever for Summer Fun is cranking up … I want to get to every event, every food truck rally, soccer game, choir concert, backyard barbecue that I can. I see this wild need in everyone’s…

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Taste-A-Whirl

That’s right, it’s time for Art-A-Whirl up in the Nordeast neighborhoods and many of the local bars and restaurants are putting on their posh frocks in celebration. I like art, but art makes me peckish (I know, everything makes me peckish) so I do all the digging of where to find food and art…

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