After spending five years at the helm at Wise Acre Eatery in south Minneapolis, chef Beth Fisher and general manager Caroline Glawe have moved on. The couple announced their departure on Monday evening. (That's Glawe, left, and Fisher, right, in a Star Tribune file photo from the restaurant's opening summer in 2011).
"It was an amicable parting of ways," said Glawe. "Wise Acre Eatery was a delicious five-year chapter in our culinary lives. We look forward to what life dishes up next. Food is in our blood, and service is in our hearts."
Owners Dean Englemann and Scott Endres got into the restaurant business when the frozen custard shop across the street from their Tangletown Gardens store and nursery went up for sale. They bought it, converted it into a full-service restaurant and hired Fisher and Glawe, caterers and Lucia's Restaurant vets, to run it.
The Wise Acre (such a great name, right?) is a Twin Cities original: the kitchen's meats, poultry and vegetables are raised on the Tangletown Gardens farm in Plato, Minn., about 30 minutes west of Chaska. Fisher did the cooking (see my three-star review here), and Glawe skillfully managed the beverage programs and supervised the service staff.
No word on Fisher and Glawe's replacements. "What's next for us?" said Glawe. "Stay tuned."
