Piccolo's small plates enable chef to flex creative muscles

Alma Guzman

At Piccolo, small plates are created with big-plate sophistication.

The chioggia beet terrine.

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Piccolo Restaurant

4300 Bryant Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55409

Category: Restaurant > Small Plates

Region: Kingfield

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Piccolo Restaurant
4300 Bryant Ave. S., Minneapolis
612.827.8111; www.piccolompls.com small plates $6-$14

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• Doug Flicker
• James Andrus
• Tim Niver
• Foods
• Food and Cooking

I don't think that cultivating a "hot" foodie restaurant was really Flicker's intention—remember, this is a guy known to cook in a sock-monkey stocking cap! He may be using hip, millennial cooking techniques, but he is also thinking holistically about food production and social justice and engaging in the less-glamorous, patience-testing parts of those processes. Using a grow light in the restaurant's basement, Flicker is already raising microgreens and sprouting artichoke seeds; this summer he hopes to put some raised beds out back and maybe get a few chickens. As for the rest of the winter, he'll likely be doing more shoveling.