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In a major development for the North Loop dining scene, the former Bachelor Farmer space will come to life once more. Prodigious restaurateurs Daniel del Prado and Ryan Burnet have bought the spa...

https://heavytable.com/daniel-del-prado-and-ryan-burnet-purchase-former-bachelor-farmer-space/

An index of all the content published in the Heavy Table's three food newsletters, published every Friday morning.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the June 10 edition of Heavy Table’s Tap newsletter. Back the Heavy Table on Patreon to subscribe to exclusive food a...

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARAH MCGEE / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the June 17 edition of Heavy Table’s Churn newsletter. Back the Heavy Table on Patreon to subscribe to exclusive food ...

https://heavytable.com/a-quad-cities-food-tour/

Two bits of bad news hit our inbox late yesterday and early this morning. The first: the six-year-old Longfellow Asian fusion spot Dumpling is calling it quits this weekend. As per their email, f...

https://heavytable.com/closing-soon-dumpling-and-grand-catch/

It seems to go without saying: the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro lacks a late-night dining culture. Even 112 Eatery, a wonderful restaurant that we got to know as the place where chefs ate after get...

https://heavytable.com/minneapolis-st-paul-late-night-dining-guide/

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF UW-PRESS / CHRIS HYNES EXCEPT AUTOR PORTRAIT BY MAUREEN JANSON HEINZ Whenever I want to know what’s going on with food and restaurants in my hometown of Madison, Wiscons...

https://heavytable.com/a-portrait-of-madison-chefs/

After more than five years of operation, the Northeast Minneapolis Japanese street food restaurant PinKU will be shutting its doors at 20 University Avenue. The restaurant is calling it quits aft...

https://heavytable.com/pinkus-new-years-eve-celebration-will-be-its-swan-song/

The first time in my life I received useful information from a random wrong number was a few days ago, when I got a mysterious text. It contained a dim camera phone photo of an intriguing recipe ...

https://heavytable.com/cranberry-cream-cheese-pico-de-gallo/

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE When you step onto the production floor of Milk and Honey Ciders, the aroma of apples drapes itself across you like a weighted blanket. With the possible...

https://heavytable.com/fall-apple-pressing-milk-and-honey-ciders/

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY AND VICTORIA CAMPBELL There are many, many, many challenges involved in trying to launch a food hall (or food court, or artisan marketplace, or whatever nomenclature y...

https://heavytable.com/the-market-at-malcolm-yards/

PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY This review originally appeared in the July 16 edition of the Churn newsletter. The newly opened Sanjusan in the North Loop promises guests (through its menu, location, and...

https://heavytable.com/sanjusan-in-the-north-loop/

To say that Birchwood Cafe is a Minneapolis institution is no exaggeration – the Seward neighborhood stalwart has been in business for a quarter century, and has become synonymous with farm-to-...

https://heavytable.com/hard-times-at-birchwood-cafe/

PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY For 23 years, Star Tribune food writer Rick Nelson has covered food and restaurants for the Star Tribune, serving as the unofficial dean of culinary journalism here in Minn...

https://heavytable.com/exit-interview-rick-nelson/

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...

https://heavytable.com/deconstructing-side-chick/

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MR. PAUL’S SUPPER CLUB In yet another sign that restaurants and diners are looking forward to a feel-good, post-pandemic boom, Chef Tommy Begnaud (Butcher and the Boar, Coup ...

https://heavytable.com/coming-this-autumn-mr-pauls-supper-club/

PHOTOS COURTESY OF AREPA BAR / SCREENSHOT FROM INSTAGRAM There’s no avoiding the fact that Midtown Global Market is facing a challenging time right now, between the pandemic and destruction on ...

https://heavytable.com/arepa-bar-opens-at-midtown-global-market/

I don’t often open a story with a disclosure, but here it is: Matt Kenevan used to be my boss. As owner of the Beer Dabbler and publisher of The Growler, he was the guy who signed my checks for...

https://heavytable.com/to-build-a-fire-matt-kenevan-and-the-firewood-project/

If you haven’t yet resolved your Thanksgiving turkey cooking method of choice a) WHAT ARE YOU THINKING and b) OK, good news, we have an answer for you that is absolutely tremendous and will cha...

https://heavytable.com/a-hard-pitch-for-smoked-turkey/

Peace Coffee, a major player in Minnesota’s fair-trade coffee business, is exiting its retail shops and pivoting to a focus on wholesale accounts. The shops are currently shuttered due to the C...

https://heavytable.com/peace-coffee-shuttering-its-retail-locations-wildflyer-taking-over-in-longfellow/

This column is adapted from an essay that ran in the Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 edition of the Heavy Table Tap Newsletter. After 41 years of publication, City Pages is gone, and I for one am profoundl...

https://heavytable.com/on-the-death-of-city-pages/

Back in the Sep. 11 diner’s edition of our subscription newsletter, we ran a recipe for pannekoeken. If you don’t know the dish, it’s the oven-baked apple pancake that happens to power a no...

https://heavytable.com/the-breakfast-miracle-of-pannekoeken/

In today’s debut edition of our Tap culinary industry-focused newsletter, you’ll find a robust round-up of Minnesota’s most notable restaurant openings, closings, and planned projects. Youâ...

https://heavytable.com/todays-newsletter-chef-tory-miller-alemar-cheese-and-more/

PHOTOS BY BRENDA JOHNSON On Thursday morning, I asked one of the Heavy Table’s photographers, Brenda Johnson, to go to downtown Minneapolis and document some of the damage from the night before...

https://heavytable.com/on-the-looting-of-restaurants/

Photos by Becca Dilley / Heavy Table The newly opened Okome House, a project led by Chef Hide Tozawa (formerly of Kyatchi), is a welcome rarity. It’s a Japanese restaurant that proudly steers c...

https://heavytable.com/the-nine-onigiri-of-okome-house-ranked/

After a two-year hiatus, The Heavy Table is back. The Minnesota food scene is challenged as it never has been before. The Heavy Table is dedicated to covering the culinary side of the pandemic an...

https://heavytable.com/eating-the-apocalypse/

As the Covid-19 pandemic mounts, we walk through seven South Minneapolis supermarkets and observe wildly varying precautions and a community in crisis.

https://heavytable.com/walking-the-markets-seven-minneapolis-grocery-stores-in-a-time-of-pandemic/

The final installment of Heavy Table's popular weekly Hot Five feature brings together Iraqi flatbread, mangonadas, strawberry pie, and more.

https://heavytable.com/heavy-table-hot-five-may-25-31/

The Hot Five gets all the way out to Wahpeton for a new spin on poutine and keeps it close to home with a terrific Sicilian pizza at Al Vento, plus three more dishes you shouldn't miss.

https://heavytable.com/heavy-table-hot-five-may-18-24/

We've had nine glorious years of feasting upon the bounty of the Upper Midwest here at the Heavy Table. This June, we're clearing the table and putting the site to bed.

https://heavytable.com/clearing-table-saying-farewell-heavy-table/