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Second Helping

Hazellewood Grill

Hazellewood Grill

With food and service that often exceeds expectations, Hazellwood Grill, now a couple years old, has grown into one of, if not the best, dining options around Lake Minnetonka.

Second Helping

Jax Cafe

Videos

Critics' Picks 2008: Best Restaurants

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VIDEO

Check out our restaurant experts' picks for the 2008 best restaurants in the Twin Cities. These are the places they'd spend their own buck on any day.

Best Bakeries: A Guided Tour

Cupcake

VIDEO

Bakery guru Beth Dooley tours some of her favorite Twin Cities sweet shops.

Zimmern on Steak

Andrew Zimmern

VIDEO

Andrew Zimmern visits the meat case at Byerly’s to talk steak—from choosing your cut to cooking it, this video series covers the basics you need to know.

Wine 101

Bill Coy

VIDEO

Watch and learn as Mpls.St.Paul Magazine wine columnist, Bill Coy, explains wine basics. From how to store it to how to smell it, this video series will leave you vino savvy.

Recipes

Recipes

More than 300 recipes from your favorite restaurants, chefs, and local celebrities.

Foie Gras Mousse by Andrew Zimmern

Foie Gras

Controversial?  Yes.  Delicious?  Oh yes. Andrew Zimmern shares his recipe for Foie Gras Mousse.

Birchwood Cafe's Apple Parsnip Soup

The Birchwood Cafe's Parsnip Apple Soup delivers a smooth, garlicky punch whether served hot or cold.

Baked Corn-Stuffed Tomatoes by Birdwing Spa Cookbook

Try this baked corn-stuffed tomato recipe from the Birdwing Spa Cookbook.

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All American Food 42 All-American Foods and Where to Find Them.
Foodie File

Foodie File

blog by Mpls.St. Paul Food + Dining Editors

F3: Low and Slow
by Stephanie March
on July 25, 2008

Stephanie MarchI'm playing it low and slow this weekend. Maybe some market action, maybe some dim sum brunch. Thinking of making some popsicles or possibly just...

Breakup Cake
by Stephanie March
on July 24, 2008

Stephanie MarchWhat do you do for one of your best girls when she's been dumped by the guy she thought she might marry? You make her...

Andrew Zimmern

Chow & Again

blog by Andrew Zimmern

On the Hunt
on July 24, 2008

No disrespect to all the Ethiopian restaurateurs in town, but injera and wot only goes so far, and after eating my way across East Africa,...

Float Me
on July 21, 2008

This post keeps popping up on Craigslist, so if anyone wants to be in Rocco’s new show, have at it. This show sounds fantastically boring...

The Hot List
 

July 2008 Hot List
Restaurants that sizzle this month.

1 Sonic Real crushed ice is more popular that we imagined.
2 Seven (rooftop) This is where it is happening people. And my, what a big TV.
3 Salut St. Paul It was quite a wait, but there’s a happening restaurant on Grand again.
4 Porter & Frye Doug Flicker is cooking on the line, people. Who’s next, Escoffier?
5 Lake House It’s a lot of gas to get there, but Joan Ida and dockage? We’re in!
Features
Doug Anderson

Q&A with Doug Anderson

Anderson has opened and closed two restaurants himself, the Bakery on Grand in Minneapolis and Au Rebour in St. Paul, gaining an eccentric reputation in his own right. His latest venture, Nick and Eddie, is an attempt to bring the weird back to Loring Park.

Ginger Roasted Duck

Chai's Thai

The prices at Chai's Thai take cue from the teeny-tiny restaurant, but the dishes in this Minneapolis restaurant, such as the fried crab and avocado spring rolls, are ample and delicious.

empanadas

Otho

Otho's chef has found that the locals prefer restrained spicing and pricing, and the result is a compromise that leaves those with a discerning palate wishing for more.

Half Price at Full Price

In the wine world, price does not always connote quality and there are often great value wines that taste just like the high-buck stuff.

roasted bone marrow

Red Stag Supperclub

Chef Bill Baskin of Red Stag—formerly a sheet metal shop, now environmentally aware restaurant—creates a menu featuring pleasures of the hunt.

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Juice Box

Are you a busy parent looking for great information fast? Every week get our quick picks, ideas for meal time, our favorite goodies and gear, plus useful, inside news just for parents.

» All-American Food

The August issue of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine on All-American Food is a critic's tour of 42 icons of red-white-and-blue cooking in the Twin Cities. Get a video glimpse and take the All-American Food poll!

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Best Restaurants 2008

Our Picks of the Best Restaurants in the Twin Cities

Watch highlights of our critics' 2008 picks, read about their faves, and more.

» Taste! 2008

Taste! 2008

Dive into succulent goodies and fine wine at Mpls.St.Paul’s ultimate wine and dine!

» Readers Poll

2008 Readers' Poll

See who's changing the Twin Cities' dining scene in 2008 with this year's Readers' Poll Ten Best Restaurants.

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