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Indigenous cuisine restaurant Owamni hasn’t been afraid to tweak their James Beard award-winning formula, with an evolving seasonal menu, a summertime snack stand, and last winter’s 13-course Waníyetu tasting menu (covered in the January 19, 2024 edition of the Tap). Owamni’s latest venture is the Turtle Island Dinner Series, an eight-course tasting menu the Heavy Table was invited to experience free of charge on opening night.| Heavy Table
It’s always tricky to write about a brewery that takes over an existing space. (I wrote about it earlier, if you follow The Tulip and Schooner closely.) Brühaven opened in Loring Park in June, in the building that formerly housed Lakes & Legends. And if you ever went to Lakes & Legends, you’ll immediately make comparisons when you step into the taproom, which has been touched-up but still feels familiar. But it’s another story behind the bar and inside the brewhouse.| Heavy Table
Minnesota breweries are all in with the legalization of THC This story was originally published in the August 18, 2023 edition of the Tulip and Schooner newsletter, supported by Heavy Table’s Substack and Patreon subscribers. It won second place in the 2024 North American Guild of Beer Writers awards in the “Best Local Reporting” category. […]| Heavy Table
This story was originally published in Heavy Table’s Substack newsletter for Sep. 13, 2024 and was made possible by its paying subscribers. Three of the four corners at Lake and Hennepin – the center of Uptown in Minneapolis – are vacant retail storefronts. The fourth is a mostly empty urban mini-mall that has been slowly […]| Heavy Table
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It’s been a number of years since the last iteration of Chef Camp, the wild gathering of chefs and campers in the north woods of Minnesota, but we thought it might be nice to share one of the tangible products of those magical late summer days and nights: The Chef Camp Cookbook.| heavytable.com
A lot has happened in the discourse surrounding the name and branding of the newly opened Lyn-Lake Justin Sutherland-fronted restaurant Side Chick over the past week. One on side: critics, mainly women (many of whom have worked or are working in the hospitality industry) attacking the concept (which includes menu items such as “Nashville Hottie” and “Legs for Days”) as out of place for an industry facing a reckoning for misogyny. | Heavy Table
This story originally appeared in the Heavy Table Tulip and Schooner newsletter for beer, wine, and spirits published Friday, June 21, 2024. To receive new Heavy Table culinary newsletters every Friday morning, subscribe on Patreon. Heti is a new startup from Dana Thompson, a co-creator of Owamni restaurant, NĀTIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems) […]| Heavy Table
This story originally appeared in the Heavy Table email newsletter for June 14, 2024, and was made possible through the support of our subscribers on Patreon. Back us on Patreon to receive four-to-six newsletters a month with news, reviews, and interviews telling the culinary story of the Upper Midwest.| Heavy Table
People have been drinking mead nearly as long as they’ve been harvesting honey. While mead has a storied history, it’s not nearly as popular as beer and wine, despite some similarities. But that hasn’t stopped mead makers from pursuing their passions in a competitive beverage marketplace. The wine-like drink has always had an appeal to those who want something a little bit different, and that whimsical spirit drives Noah Stein and Skot Rieffer, who cofounded and opened Bumbling Fools me...| Heavy Table
Sarah Bonvallet wonders if the brewery she and her husband Rob Miller (pictured above) began 11 years ago during the nascent, rapid-fire opening of Minnesota taprooms, is no longer meant to exist. Dangerous Man recently shut down brewing at their original Northeast Minneapolis location, a critically lauded hotspot for the community for 11 years. Owning […]| Heavy Table
Part five of Heavy Table’s five-part crawl through 79 independent restaurants on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, Richfield, and Bloomington, Minnesota.| Heavy Table
Part four of Heavy Table’s five-part crawl through 79 independent restaurants on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, Richfield, and Bloomington, Minnesota.| Heavy Table
Part three of Heavy Table’s five-part crawl through 79 independent restaurants on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, Richfield, and Bloomington, Minnesota.| Heavy Table
Part two of Heavy Table's five-part crawl through 79 independent restaurants on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, Richfield, and Bloomington, Minnesota.| Heavy Table
Welcome to the online home of the collected Lyndale Avenue Checklist! This collection of 79 reviews was created over the course of 18 months by writers M.C. Cronin (atmosphere/people) and James Norton (food/drink), and illustrated by photographer Becca Dilley and the artist WACSO. We’ve broken this review out into five distinct posts so the load time is a little less massive – this feature includes about 45,000 words of text and hundreds of photos and illustrations. Part one starts at the...| Heavy Table
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.| Heavy Table
I accidentally walked past the entrance to TokiDoki Burger twice.| Heavy Table
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. […]| Heavy Table
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 […]| Heavy Table
Go big on citrus and gift some seriously refreshing fruit at Eastside Coop, which stocks a wide variety ranging from pomelos to Algerian clementines. (Price varies, budget $10-20) Is there a better way to say “Valentine’s Day” than a box of deliciousness from Honey & Rye (pictured at top)? We don’t think so; place your order 48 hours in advance and gift (and maybe share, if you’re lucky) anything from classic (and custom) conversation heart cookies to chocolate sourdough, to a straw...| Heavy Table
I forget how I heard about it, but somehow, I found out about an opera concert in Nairobi.| Heavy Table
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 a 1920s trade union campaign—latkes could be easily made at home, but sufganiyot were typically produced in bake...| Heavy Table
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 got?| Heavy Table
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.| Heavy Table
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 nearly-great but not-quite-there restaurants and bakeries.| Heavy Table
This story originally appeared in the Heavy Table’s Tulip and Schooner newsletter, which tells the stories of beer, wine, and spirits in the Upper Midwest. Get the newsletter (and three others) by backing Heavy Table on Patreon.| Heavy Table
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE; ILLUSTRATIONS BY WACSO / HEAVY TABLE| Heavy Table
This story originally ran in the Heavy Table Tap newsletter for August 18, 2023. To get the Heavy Table newsletter 4x a month (or 6x, including the Tap), back us on Patreon.| Heavy Table
Photos by James Norton / Heavy Table except Bryce Stevenson portrait (courtesy of Miijim)| Heavy Table
