Love Minneapolis’ Spoonbridge and Cherry? Now you can eat it

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden by scarfing an edible replica of the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture at Gather by D’Amico at Walker Art Center.

The dessert is available through the summer as a special item on the menu and includes a chocolate mousse dome on a chocolate shortbread, a chocolate almond cake filled with cherry cheesecake and a bittersweet-chocolate tart drizzled with cherry compote.

To finish it, a marzipan cherry is perched atop a spoon made of molded chocolate.

via TwinCities.com

America’s Best Cities for Pizza

No. 1 Chicago
No. 2 Providence, RI
No. 3 New York City
No. 4 Philadelphia
No. 5 Boston
No. 6 Minneapolis/St. Paul
Readers may have just discovered the Twin Cities’ array of classic and quirky pizzas: the metropolis climbed nine slots since last year. Punch Pizza, with several locations, has serious VPN (Verace Pizza Napoletana) street cred, while Pizza Luce interprets the dish more loosely, offering a “western pizza” with scrambled eggs, bacon, and peppers for brunch. The hottest newcomer is artisan-style Pizzeria Lola, opened by a Korean-American chef and featuring a short-ribs-powered Korean BBQ pizza.
No. 7 San Diego
No. 8 Savannah, GA
No. 9 Nashville
No. 10 Kansas City, MO
No. 11 San Francisco
No. 12 Portland, ME
No. 13 San Antonio, TX
No. 14 Portland, OR
No. 15 Austin, TX
No. 16 Houston
No. 17 Memphis, TN
No. 18 Los Angeles
No. 19 Baltimore
No. 20 Orlando, FL

Article via Travel & Leisure Photo by mosippy

James Beard Foundation: Kramarczuk’s is an “America’s Classics”

The James Beard Foundation has reaffirmed what Twin Citians have known for years. Namely, that Kramarczuk’s is worthy of joining the fraternity of “America’s Classics.”

The culinary foundation announced today that the northeast Minneapolis landmark is the recipient of one of five annual “America’s Classics” honors, which are given to restaurants “that have timeless appeal and are beloved for quality food that reflects the character of their community.”

What a fitting tribute to the source for cabbage rolls, dumplings, sauerkraut-smothered house-made sausages, savory crepes topped with horseradish-fortified sour cream, kielbasa, bratwurst (an iconic Target Field favorite) kolaches and other trademark menu items, all of which have been luring hungry Minnesotans to northeast Minneapolis for nearly 60 years.

via StarTribune

Supper with Shakespeare: The Evolution of English Banqueting

Thursday, December 13, 2012—Sunday, March 31, 2013
Tudor Room (325) and Gallery 332
Free Exhibition

via Minneapolis Institute Of Art’s flickr page

Dextrose truck parked on a Minneapolis street advertising candy as a delicious food. (1938) via Minnesota Historical Society

Candy Is Delicious Food, Enjoy Some Every Day!

Food Lovers’ Guide to the Twin Cities

Unbeknownst to him, James Norton started the research for his newest book, Food Lovers’ Guide to the Twin Cities (Globe Pequot Press), long before its recent publication. Norton, the editor of The Heavy Table and who also has written for City Pages, Minnesota Monthly, and Chow.com, drew on his five years of eating all over the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to develop a snappy yet comprehensive overview of the most noteworthy restaurants, markets, and unique culinary offerings.

Recipes, road trips, and recommended food blogs — Norton covers them all. Paging through the book, out-of-towners will be amazed at the variety of food-fueled experiences this area has to offer, while we locals can boast of the tasty bounty we get to enjoy any day of the week.

via Heavy Table.

Very cool, way to go James!

Went to Lions Tap this weekend

Made my first ever visit to Lions Tap in Eden Prairie over the weekend. If you’ve never been to Lions Tap, here’s the menu…hamburgers, french fries, pop & beer. That’s it. Don’t ask for a chicken sandwich, salad or dessert, they don’t serve that. I’ll say it again…hamburgers, french fries, pop & beer.

Lions Tap has been around forever and are quite famous for their hamburgers. I got the California Cheese with an order of their fries, and I will say it was a tasty little burger. The burger itself isn’t all that big, but it had good flavor and the price was fairly moderate. Not the greatest hamburger I’ve had, but if you have never been and are in the area, it is worth checking out.

Plus there is this awesome painting hanging in their dining room.

I could stare at it for hours.

Minnesota’s First Gastro-Poster Sale

via Heavy Table, click pic for deets

Tootie’s On Lowry

Today’s lunch was the Black & Bleu Burger at Tootie’s on Lowry. And let’s be clear about one thing, Tootie’s is a dive bar/restaurant in the North Side of Minneapolis (Lowry & Upton) that has somehow managed to survive for decades in a neighborhood that shifts from being “not bad” to “sketchy” depending on the year, and without any sort of cosmetic updates to their interior as other restaurants around North die off.

Why?

Their burgers are fantastic.

If Victory 44 or Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den are as far into the North Side that you travel, you need to correct this mistake and check out Tootie’s.

Like I said, nothing fancy, but damn good burgers can be found here.