In the skyway of Tri-Tech building in downtown Minneapolis There was an Asian restaurant whose name escapes me. The reason being that it was utterly unremarkable save for their take on Bi-Bim-Bap. But as it constituted the only Korean dish I could find in downtown, and was at the very least edible, I found myself [...]
My wife Susan and her good friend Rachel have a running debate (usually over/after drinks) regarding who makes better wings…Rachel’s a Monte Carlo gal, while Sue prefers Dolittle’s in Golden Valley. They’re really apples and oranges as Monte Carlo makes them deep fried with a crispy sugar and spice coating that’s heavy on the [...]
Former Minneapolitan, MNSpeak founder, digital bon vivant, narcissistic dilettante and dating overachiever Rex Sorgatz is the brains behind the social media reach of about-to-launch 4Food restaurant in Midtown Manthattan. 4Food is a fascinating (or superfluous, depending on your take) attempt to reinvent the fast food hamburger, and even restaurants as we know them, for the [...]
Healthy Fast Food is out there. No, really, it kinda sorta is.
Voila.
I stopped by the brand new Turkey-to-Go cart on Nicollet Mall & 8th Street (right in front of Mens’ Wearhouse… today and ordered one of their turkey sandwiches. It was disarmingly simple…coarsely chopped turkey meat (primarily white) on a white hamburger-style bun wrapped in wax paper. No pickles, no slaw, no secret sauce, [...]
I can’t say I’ve tried every item in the 7 or 8 games I’ve been to at Target Field, mostly because half those games have been in a suite where the food differs from what you find out in the concourses. I do, however, feel like I’ve tried enough items to have an every game [...]
Now that you’ve heard from my puritanical teetotalling amigo Shefzilla, I’d like to drop some truth on you. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum…restaurant kitchens are one of the last professional bastions of the pirate ship mentality (Francis Lam and his Bourdain-bashing ilk can go straight to hell). Drinking is, and always will [...]
Among the humblest of noble beef cuts, Tri Tip is the name that some creative butcher looking to offload some ugly spare cow parts gave to bottom sirloin. It’s an irregularly shaped cut and has a tough texture somewhere between brisket and flat-iron shoulder cut and is usually available in the $3 to $6 per [...]
I was in NYC visiting a client a few weeks back (pre heat-wave) and got caught in a sudden storm while walking through the Lower East Side one evening. We were running for shelter when we stumbled upon a mass of humanity crowding under the awning of a seemingly campy concept restaurant [...]
For as long as I can remember, there have been rumors of a “Detroit Comeback”. That somehow the city would return to, or at least toward, it’s pre-WWII peak when it competed with Chicago for regional dominance, was a Titan of Industry and was even referred to as the Paris of the [...]
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