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The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
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For 10 years, 612Brew was a core tenant of the Broadway Building at the busy intersection of Broadway and Central in Northeast Minneapolis. But last summer, 612 sold their business to new owners, Pat Carey, Jason Myrold, and Steve Wankewycz, who have rebranded as Padraigs Brewing. When a new business takes over an existing location ..read more
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1M ago
I accidentally walked past the entrance to TokiDoki Burger twice. It’s located a couple of doors down from one of chef/owner Yuichiro Matthew Kazama’s other restaurants, the Minneapolis location of Ramen Kazama. His newest venture opened on March 1 and there isn’t a sign up yet, although some dangling wires seem to indicate that it’s ..read more
The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
2M ago
Many brewery’s mark their birthday with a big, unique barrel-aged beer or two. But Town Hall does barrels differently, dedicating their taps to the specialty style for two weeks each February in an event called Barrel Aged Weeks. The brewpub, established in 1997, has a special facility for aging a wide variety of beer styles ..read more
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2M ago
Photographs by Becca Dilley / Heavy Table This story originally appeared in the Feb. 16, 2024 edition of the Tap newsletter supported by Heavy Table’s Patreon backers. Subscribe on Patreon to keep the Heavy Table and get the newsletters. Getting Karl Gerstenberger to talk about meat is easy, especially if you agree to meet him ..read more
The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
2M ago
In most years, Valentine’s Day is a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a bleak white frozen wasteland; this year, it’s a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a dry brown mostly thawed out wasteland. Either way, it’s a time to reboot, connect, and relax, and the local food ..read more
The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
3M ago
I forget how I heard about it, but somehow, I found out about an opera concert in Nairobi. This might sound unusual – and it is – but one of the things you learn pretty quickly about Nairobi, is that you can find anything there – anything – if you look hard enough. At one ..read more
The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
4M ago
Since Hanukkah commemorates a small quantity of oil miraculously lasting for eight nights, the holiday is traditionally celebrated by consuming foods fried in lots of oil. Popular choices include latkes, or potato pancakes, and sufganiyot, doughnuts filled with jelly and dusted with powdered sugar. Fascinatingly, sufganiyot became associated with Hanukkah in large part due to ..read more
The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
5M ago
When I mentioned to James Norton that I was getting a take-and-bake Thanksgiving dinner from Animales BBQ instead of making a meal from scratch, he asked if I’d write up a story about the value proposition, and I thought, sure, that’d be easy enough. Was what I paid ($180 plus tax, etc.) worth what I ..read more
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6M ago
This story originally ran in the Heavy Table’s Churn newsletter on Oct. 10, 2023. If you’d like to read a lot more stories about the food and drink of the Upper Midwest, and support our writers and photographers as they document the scene, please back us on Patreon. For several years, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen has ..read more
The Heavy Table | Twin Cities Food Magazine
6M ago
We had our doubts about Mi Mexico Querido. This Mexican spot looked set to move into the former Dumpling space on Minnehaha last October when its lovely floral facade went up … and then a year went by. Its perpetual non-open status became a running joke for our family, and a symbol of Longfellow’s many ..read more