Eat & Drink
May 15, 2020
Italian lamb sausage pizza from Lyn 65.

5 best things our restaurant critic ate in the Twin Cities this week

Rick Nelson highlights the favorites of his recent dining schedule.
Local
May 14, 2020
Jackie Slinger and her daughter, Sammy, shopped at Wise Acre Eatery, which is selling fresh food from its Plato, Minn., farm.

Struggling Minnesota restaurants are selling what's in their pantries

"Here is a way to get somebody a product they can't get anywhere else, and give them a small experience they can't get anywhere else."
Eat & Drink
May 13, 2020
Isolation BIZingo Provided photo

At 80-plus Twin Cities restaurants, takeout includes a game of 'Isolation BIZ-ingo'

The cards for the game of bingo are handed out for free, and each game has a prize of about $200 to $300 in gift cards.
Taste
May 13, 2020
Vegetable curry.

A colorful meal of curried vegetables

Either fresh or frozen work well with this dish.
Taste
May 13, 2020
Herb-Roasted Cod with Tomatoes and Potatoes

Catch a meal of fish tonight

This no-fear seafood dish is easy to make.
Variety
May 13, 2020
At Wise Acre Eatery, Shellee Floyd rings up an order for Sammy Slinger, who purchased honey, bacon, eggs and granola from the restaurant's Tangletown

10 Twin Cities restaurants and food purveyors that will let you shop their pantries

Minnesota restaurants, farms and bars are opening their pantries directly to consumers while dining rooms remain closed.
Local
May 9, 2020
Safety first! Neighborhood Roots Farmers Market stocked up on cleaning supplies, made some cool masks and installed a plexiglass screen at their info

No more samples: What you can expect at Minnesota's farmers markets

Consumers will find the farmers market experience to be altered due to social distancing guidelines.
Eat & Drink
May 8, 2020

5 best things our food writers ate in the Twin Cities this week

Food writers Rick Nelson and Sharyn Jackson highlight the favorites of their weekly dining experiences.
Taste
May 8, 2020

Sweeten your menu with maple sugar and syrup

Maple sugar brightens up the twice-baked Italian cookie called biscotti.
Eat & Drink
May 7, 2020

Some of our favorite brunch recipes for celebrating Mother's Day

Celebrate the day with good food and, when necessary, social distancing.
Eat & Drink
May 7, 2020
Bottles of India Pale Ale move down the production line at Summit Brewing Co. of St. Paul.

Is trouble brewing on the Minnesota beer scene?

It's much harder now than it was 10 years ago for beer newcomers to immerse themselves in the depth and variety of the beer world.
Eat & Drink
May 6, 2020
Savory waffle at the Birchwood

15 Mother's Day takeout suggestions from our restaurant critic

Make Mom's big day easy by having someone else do the cooking. All you have to do is plan ahead, order online, make the pickup and set the table.
Local
May 6, 2020
After all the food was gone and there would be no more take out orders, Chef Rory Marino comforted co-owner Sarah Schrantz on Muddy Waters' last night

Muddy Waters, Lyn-Lake bar and restaurant, closes its doors for last time

A couple hundred people came by on Sunday to stay goodbye to the Uptown Minneapolis bar and restaurant known as a "real melting pot."
Eat & Drink
May 5, 2020
Demi, chef Gavin Kaysen's North Loop newcomer, is one of 10 restaurants in the nation in the running for the James Beard Foundation's Best New Restaur

5 Minneapolis chefs and restaurants make finals for James Beard awards

This year's awards were delayed due to the coronavirus.
Variety
May 3, 2020
Sisters Sarah Dan Bee Tulius and Megan Koh Eun Tulius of St. Paul.

700 Minnesota families sat for a photographer's project celebrating how they look alike

In Eric Mueller's St. Paul studio, he takes photos that reveal the uncannily overlapping physical traits of biological kin.
Variety
May 2, 2020

With restaurants on pause, Twin Cities chefs host online cooking lessons

As Twin Cities chefs turn to home videos, mainly on Instagram, anyone can attend "culinary school."
Variety
May 2, 2020
With the help of her son Charlie, Zoë François, a baker/cookbook author, and seasoned cooking class instructor in online videos has started

Our guide to the best cooking videos with your favorite Twin Cities chefs

Learn to cook with these videos from chefs' home kitchens.
Eat & Drink
May 1, 2020
Elote corn Danish from Patisserie 46

5 best things our food writers ate in the Twin Cities this week

Food writers Rick Nelson and Sharyn Jackson highlight the favorites of their weekly dining experiences.
Eat & Drink
April 30, 2020
Restaurant of the of the year, Bachelor Farmer Exterior and front door. [ TOM WALLACE ¥ twallace@startribune.com _ Assignments #20020475A_ Decemb

Four-star restaurant Bachelor Farmer has closed in Minneapolis

Co-owner Eric Dayton said he did not see a viable path forward.
Eat & Drink
April 29, 2020
Chef Tim McKee at the bar in the dining room of his Octo Fishbar in St. Paul's Lowertown.

8 Twin Cities chefs share their favorite cookbooks

The chefs and restaurateurs share the sources of the recipes getting a lot of use in their kitchens.

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