Eat + Drink Features

Sip on local craft beer in a one of a kind setting. Check out our guide to Minnesota breweries and taprooms.

Fall in Minnesota can mean 80 degrees or snow. Having a wine that fits with our crazy change of season can be tricky.

Erica Strait's new Foxy Falafel shop is offering salads, turkey shawarma, housemade soda, and of course falafel in a casual, fast, and friendly setting.

LoveTree Farmstead’s Mary Falk makes some of the world’s best cheese. What does it taste like? Genius.

We drink-makers go to great lengths to balance a cocktail, to offset some sweet element with bitters, citrus, or sparkling wine.

These hand-formed Salvadoran snacks have started an off-the-radar invasion of the Twin Cities, and the newest lair is Pupuseria La Palmera in south Minneapolis.

Icehouse dazzles in the unlikeliest genre of American cuisine—bar food.

Stewart and Heidi Woodman, the chef-owners of the much-lauded fine-dining Heidi’s, brought on chef Ben Mauk to run the kitchen, and the menu is focused on healthy, good-for-you food.

Want to smash a few grapes between your toes? Check out these Minnesota fall wine harvests.

Panzanella is a perfect hot August dish, light but filling, and it’s making a comeback.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine food and dining editor Stephanie March heads to the Minnesota State Fair to see the judging for this year’s Ghirardelli Chocolate Championship.

You can find pork belly on nearly any chef-driven menu, the trick is finding the one you love. Here's five Twin Cities restaurants's take on this fatty, salty, rich morsels of pig.

For a quick and delicious bloody, pick up locally made Spooky Bloody Mary Mix, an all-natural concoction that comes in three heat levels: horseradish, original, and “friendly.”

We're not going to apologize for eating popcorn and gelato for lunch, especially when it’s popcorn from Amy’s, which is the sweetest spot in the Minneapolis skyway.

Birdhouse is the food duo Stewart and Heidi Woodman's new venture that focuses on everyday healthy food for the whole family.

The new Asian restaurant boom is run by cooks who are redefining their particular cuisines in light of their personal, Minnesota-touched stories.

When picking the wine for a wedding, family reunion, or company picnic, keep it simple.

We send Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl to a cocktail brunch where you make the pickle garnishes for your drinks and take some pickles home, too.

Mouth-watering dishes from our 2012 Critics' Picks of Twin Cities Insider Eats.

The best food nobody knows about from 57 restaurants across the Twin Cities. Our dining team reveals its black book of foodie secrets.

You’ll find that global theme throughout much of the menu, as owners Fernando Silva and Alain Lenne intend a Brazilian-French-American whirl of influence.

The meatball-centric menu offers chicken, beef, pork, salmon, or falafel balls before picking a sauce to pair them with such as pomodoro, pesto, mushroom, gravy, and yogurt.

Prairie Kitchen & Bar in the newly rehabbed Hyatt is a worthy lunch escape downtown Minneapolis.

If you haven’t heard of them yet, you soon will. Orange wines are made with white grapes that have been crushed and left with their skins for an extended time.

You can now have expertly brewed growlers of cold press beverages in your fridge morning, noon, and night.