Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Hold the Cream of Mushroom Soup

From Bismarck to St. Paul to Madison, new high-end restaurants are embracing such local cuisine as fried walleye and wild-rice porridge. Call it the birth of northwoods chic.

Canned Beer That's Actually Good

Craft brewers see sense in cans.

A West Sonoma Road Trip

Tasting rooms and dining rooms in our favorite slice of Northern California wine country.

’m increasingly finding restaurants offering “heirloom tomato salad” and what I get is a green salad with a few tomato slices. I don’t know why they call it heirloom tomato salad at all. They should call it arugula salad with...

of great restaurants and food finds out there. The year-round farmer’s markets alone are making me salivate. However, here’s my question. If you had just a few months left in Minnesota, where/what would you want to eat...

the right shot, started oyster shooter rounds, and convinced more than one restaurant owner to concoct a special menu item. I do travel to try road food in a small RV with over 6,500 miles of mostly back roads under my belt...

Since the top 10 list thread started to run into a little trouble why don’t we leave that one for restaurants and start another for Minnesota and surrounding area originals. The dishes or ingredients that started here, are...

(612) 331-1781 - 313 Oak St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

Rogers herself for that now famous Caesar salad dressing. We settled, as I often have, on Nook Bistro and such was her reaction that another post was warranted. We entered the improbable location amazed at the unassuming mini mall...

(612) 378-0467 - 606 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

(612) 870-3800 - Minneapolis, MN 55401

Anyone interested in getting a glimpse of the excitement and anxiety of opening a new restaurant should peak into this hidden potential gem in W.L.A. on the southeast corner of Barry and Santa Monica Blvd., one block east of...

Looking for a place for lunch with a friend that is open on Mondays we chose The Nook; was going to try Literati 2 but mineful that a Hound had previously incurred a hefty $62 lunch plus parking recently, we chose the Nook with...

I just got back from a wonderful meal at Nook Bistro, and wanted to share it with everyone. My wife and I got there, and it turned out it’d be about a 20 minute wait for table, or we could be seated at the counter/bar...