Whether it is the first date or the 200th, sometimes staring at each other over a plate of ubiquitous Brussel sprouts can be awkward and a bit, well, ordinary. Put some zip into an evening out by ...

Compared to 2024, two more chefs and restaurants from Minneapolis and St. Paul made it to the final round of the prestigious awards ...

Stacy Brooks is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist who has been covering food and travel since 2015. Nothing kicks off the day like a solid cup of coffee. With hidden gems on University Avenue, ...

Nylah Iqbal Muhammad is a James Beard Award-nominated food and travel journalist with work focusing on hunting, food sovereignty, and Black and North American Indigenous foodways. Walking into ...

From dive bar institutions pouring shots and distributing pull-tabs to nationally recognized natural wine bars serving funk by the glass, these are the tried-and-true bars of the Twin Cities.

The official James Beard Restaurant and Chef nominees will be announced on Tuesday, March 31, followed by a ceremony reveal of the winners at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on Monday, June 15. In the ...

It’s been seven years of evolution. When Doug Flicker announced he would open Piccolo, it was on his terms. The kitchen would serve what he wanted to cook: small plates that defied cuisine ...

University Avenue, dubbed “Green Line District” thanks to the light rail transit system that runs through it, is dotted with restaurants of every ethnicity. While the stretch between the State Capital ...

The Minnesota State Fair’s annual new food list is reliably huge (there are 34 official new dishes this year, down from last year’s 38) and peppered with delightfully wacky, cheesy, skewered, melty, ...

Moua is no stranger to restaurant openings — she’s a veteran of La Belle Vie, Solera, Spoon and Stable, and Bellecour, where she became known for her dexterity, her speed, and her subtly sweet pastry ...

Yeh and her husband, Nick Hagen, opened Bernie’s in East Grand Forks last fall. They rehabbed the former Whitey’s Wonderbar, a speakeasy that served bootlegged liquor and Coney Island hot dogs during ...

When Parasole, who owned Figlio inside of Calhoun Square in Uptown, shuttered the eatery, they assured fans it was only a temporary closing. A billboard sporting an aging drag queen promised there ...