Eat + Drink Features

From learning to boil water to perfecting your flambé, here's three places we like for sharpening your cooking skills.

This little porky spread is a potted meat, made by chopping pork, salting it heavily, and cooking it in fat until it is shreddy.

There's an awesome selection of egg dishes (the perfect protein!) alongside worthy salads and giant wraps in sprouted tortilla.

A veteran chef delivers an extensive Peruvian menu that’s a crowd pleaser.

The Twin Cities has been utterly transformed—by the pint.

Nicely rounding out the scene on Minnehaha and East Lake is Mosaic Cafe, the smart and slick evolution of Glaciers Café.

Chef Don Saunders is making an effort to win over the locals by offering a full day’s worth of eating.

 

Where to enjoy Oktoberfest in Minnesota throughout September and October 2012.

Derived from wild celery, its real name is celeriac and it’s a small, knobby, edible root that turns silky smooth when cooked.

If you've overdosed on food trucks but dread the usual skyway fare, how about a walk down to the river for a little Spoonriver lunch?

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.