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Twin Cities best new restaurants of 2010

Piccolo, Travail, and more

A A A Comments (11) By Rachel Hutton Wednesday, Dec 29 2010

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Piccolo's small plates pushed the culinary envelope

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Piccolo Restaurant

4300 Bryant Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55409

Category: Restaurant > Small Plates

Region: Kingfield

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Travail Kitchen and Amusements

4154 W. Broadway
Robbinsdale, MN 55422

Category: Restaurant > American

Region: Robbinsdale

Il Gatto

3001 Hennepin Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408

Category: Restaurant > Italian

Region: Uptown/ Eat Street

Haute Dish

119 Washington Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN 55401

Category: Restaurant > American

Region: Minneapolis (Downtown)

Patisserie 46

4552 Grand Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55419

Category: Restaurant > Bakery

Region: Southwest Minneapolis

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PICCOLO
4300 Bryant Ave. S., Minneapolis
612.827.8111; www.piccolompls.com

TRAVAIL KITCHEN AND AMUSEMENTS
4154 West Broadway Ave., Robbinsdale
763.535.1131

IL GATTO
3001 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
612.822.1688, www.ilgattominneapolis.com

HAUTE DISH
119 Washington Ave. N., Minneapolis
612.338.8484; www.haute-dish.com

PATISSERIE 46
4552 Grand Ave. S., Minneapolis
612.354.3257, www.patisserie46.com

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PATISSERIE 46
4552 Grand Ave. S., Minneapolis
612.354.3257; www.patisserie46.com

In France, the term "patisserie" may only be used by a bakery that employs a licensed maître pâtissier, or master pastry chef, and at Patisserie 46, that role is filled by John Kraus, who was most recently an instructor at the nation's top pastry school in Chicago. The Twin Cities are home to many fine bakeries, but this cute Kingfield shop brings a new level of refinement to the local pastry craft. While other artists work in oil paint or jade, Kraus's medium is flour, butter, and sugar—and he turns it into edible gold. Patisserie 46 offers the usual delectable chocolate croissants and gemlike petites gateaux, as well as such hard-to-find sweets as canelé, a spongy rum cake with a lovely, caramelized crust that looks as if it sprang from a tiny bundt pan; and gibassier, a delicate, Provencal bread that's fragrant with anise seeds, orange peel, and olive oil. But Patisserie 46 also has a savory side, with lovely artisan breads sliced for sandwiches including the croque monsieur or used to sop up soups such as bean stew.

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Mpeterson34578 01/23/2011 1:14:00 AM

It's hard to believe Gorkha Palace did not make it to this list. Eveyone who has been there admires what this restaurant provides to their customers.

Rachel Hutton 12/31/2010 6:51:00 PM

Hi Oilcan, To clarify, "gained" is referring to the recent arrival of Parasole's Cafeteria restaurant, just a block off the Lake/Hennepin intersection. The company now owns three restaurants on Uptown's prime corner.

PIERRE PARRANT 12/31/2010 6:11:00 PM

Minneapolis is a city with it's middle class spread throughout Hennepin county. In fact I refer to Mpls as Hennepin County and it's residents (all of Hennepin county) as the "mall people" From Southdale ( First enclosed mall ) to MOA to Downtown and Uptown the West metro's "best" area's mainly are representations of Consumption patterns of the fetish class, and therefore are really mall-like, intentionally devoid of history, and character. Saint Paul is more of a self-contained city. It still has a large middle class ( for better and worse ) and therefore is trying to please a different audience. However, St. Paul has history and character aplenty, because it's audience (st. paulites) demand so. When I explain the difference to friends in NYC I explain the difference as one of urban vs. urbane sensibilities. "Tuck", in his post demonstrates the urbane mpls attitude perfectly. That said Piccolo and Haute Dish are Mpls restaraunts that would most likely fail in St. Paul ( save for maybe Lowertown ) and there is nothing wrong with that, I've thoroughly enjoyed both. These lists (especially in City pages) should be mpls dominated, or else something seriously bad has happened to mpls, but I must remind my mpls neighbors whom never challenge there negative assumptions of St. Paul that bigger, cooler cities have both mpls (characteristics) and st. paul (characteristics) in one city, and it's the characteristics that are st. paul-like that make nyc'ers, and chicagoans, and San Franciscoans love their cities--- the mpls characteristics tend to be the parts of the city that change according the fetish of the moment.

Vanessa479 12/30/2010 8:15:00 PM

The url for Haute Dish is www.haute-dish.com

Nathan 12/30/2010 7:42:00 AM

I havent been to Piccolo, nor Haute Dish. But have tried Travail and Il Gatto. Il Gatto seems, to me to be average food, in wrapped in a fancy atmosphere. Went their with my family recently, and all of the dishes were less than exciting. (we even tried the swordfish, which they claimed to be their best dish!) Travail, on the other hand, is honest to goodness, fantastic food. I may be biased due to the fact that I live in Robbinsdale, but Travail is making some of the best food that I have ever tried, created in a casual atmosphere that allows anyone, (even those who aren't sure what good food is) to enjoy fine cuisine.

oilcan 12/30/2010 2:27:00 AM

"Parasole gained a majority stake at Lake and Hennepin" Hmmmmmmmmmm..they already owned Figlio so GAINED is not the right verb. And she acknowledges that she already knew this later in the article..."When the Parasole restaurant group replaced its old workhouse, Figlio,"

Tuck 12/29/2010 7:03:00 PM

Westvanson, as a former citypages reviewer pointed out many years ago, in this area there is "good," and "st. paul-good," with the latter generally being a sad iteration of the former (with the exceptions of heartland and maybe meritage). So far as Piccolo, Doug, I guess there is no accounting for taste. There is however, accounting for money. By my impression, Piccolo is making a lot of it despite the small space. Why? Because they have delicious food in a concept that is unique to Minnesota, and probably the five state area. If it is wierd to you, might I suggest you try Perkins?

Sara 12/29/2010 5:33:00 PM

Travail is in Robbinsdale actually.

Westvanson 12/29/2010 5:21:00 PM

I see all your "best new restaurants" are in Minneapolis. Why don't you change the name of your "magazine" to Minneapolis Pages.

12/29/2010 5:10:00 PM

uh...Piccolo is amazing.

East Coast Doug 12/29/2010 3:03:00 AM

PICCOLO food is wierd. If you like wierd, overly worked, wierd ingredients, I guess you'll be pleased - once. This guy is some sort of loser

Twin Cities best new restaurants of 2010

Piccolo, Travail, and more

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Piccolo Restaurant

Travail Kitchen and Amusements

Il Gatto

Haute Dish

Patisserie 46

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