In most years, Valentine’s Day is a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a bleak white frozen wasteland; this year, it’s a little island of joy surrounded on all sides by a dry bro...
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 ...
https://heavytable.com/a-first-taste-of-mi-mexico-querido-in-minneapolis/
Photos by James Norton / Heavy Table except Bryce Stevenson portrait (courtesy of Miijim) This story originally appeared in Heavy Table’s Tap newsletter on Sep. 1, 2023. To get the Tap and Heav...
https://heavytable.com/the-indigenous-food-of-miijim-of-la-pointe-wisc/
Heavy Table published a long retrospective interview with restaurateur and “Food Guy” Tobie Nidetz this January in our Tap newsletter. This week, he passed away after a long illness. If you c...
DULUTH, MINN. — Tom Hanson of Duluth Grill, OMC Smokehouse, Corktown Deli, and Goat Hill Marketplace is opening a new restaurant this Sunday, May 21: Burger Paradox. Located at 2113 West Superi...
https://heavytable.com/burger-paradox-set-to-open-in-duluth-duluths-best-bread-set-to-expand/
With hundreds of awards and an ambitious plan to expand, Wisconsin cheesemaker Marieke Penterman is on a roll.
https://heavytable.com/all-hail-the-dutchess-marieke-penterman/
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the Hearth, the Heavy Table’s newsletter about home cooking, cookbooks, farmers, and makers. You can get the Hearth b...
This seriously good chicken tikka masala recipes combines fire-charred protein or veg plus a punchy marinade.
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY / ILLUSTRATIONS BY WACSO FOR HEAVY TABLE The following review is one of five posted as the seventh installment of our Lyndale Avenue Checklist project, along with reviews o...
A collection of food experiences in Minneapolis-St. Paul including omakase, high tea, omakase dining, and more.
https://heavytable.com/are-you-experienced-twin-cities-food-thats-dinner-and-a-show/
"At Home," the debut cookbook by Minnesota chef Gavin Kaysen, is a clearly conceived and elegant manual for the serious home cook.
Red Table Meat Company, one of Minnesota’s best-regarded makers of charcuterie and a key tenant of Northeast’s Food Building, will call it quits at the end of 2022. We’ve followed founder M...
https://heavytable.com/red-table-meat-company-to-close-at-end-of-2022/
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.
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...
https://heavytable.com/jasmine-weiser-of-edwards-dessert-kitchen/
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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/