Email Author Rachel Hutton

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 4, 2009

  "Slaughterhouse Live"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2009

  "The Urban Survivalist"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 21, 2009

  "Superhero Me"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 30, 2008

  "Manny's Attempts to Raise the Steaks"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 2, 2008

  "Honeycrisp's Patent"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 4, 2008

  "Spam: It's Not Just for Inboxes"

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2009 Stories by Rachel Hutton

• The best new Twin Cities restaurants of 2009

  published December 30, 2009

  Are you one of those people who reads the Cliffs Notes instead of the book? Procrastinates about studying and then pulls an all-nighter... More >>

• Can Good Day Cafe also serve great food at night?

  published December 23, 2009

  On a recent Sunday morning, an older woman in a long wool coat stood in the vestibule of the jam-packed Good Day Cafe and shouted into her cell... More >>

• Sweets Bakeshop and Sugar Sugar candy

  published December 16, 2009

  Growing up, I was always the weird kid at birthday parties because I never ate the cake. You know the cakes I'm talking about: the flat, white,... More >>

• Bar La Grassa: Trendiest table in town

  published December 9, 2009

  I had my first local sighting of "jeggings" the other night at Bar La Grassa. They are a confident fashion choice that recently arrived from... More >>

• Anchor Fish & Chips offers authentic Irish fare

  published December 2, 2009

  Unless you arrive especially early or late, there's a good chance that your evening at the Anchor Fish & Chips will begin across the street at... More >>

• Anonymous online reviews affecting Twin Cities eateries

  published November 25, 2009

  They gripe about their server tacking the gratuity onto their bill, without realizing that the sum was actually the valet parking charge. They... More >>

• Lyndale Taphouse and Sauce Soundbar bring just the right flavor to Uptown

  published November 18, 2009

  For all the diversity that Uptown accommodates—just the other day I watched a long-haired guy extract himself from a vintage Cadillac,... More >>

• Loring Kitchen and Ginger Hop: The hits and misses

  published November 11, 2009

  "It's a good life," the website of the Eitel Building City Apartments proclaims, as a synthesized Miami Vice-style soundtrack streams... More >>

• Om Restaurant serves up nirvana on a platter, Indian-style

  published November 4, 2009

  After the young, up-and-coming real-estate developer Vik Uppal bought the old Nate's Clothing Building at First Avenue and Fourth Street in... More >>

• Kings Wine Bar cooks royally tasty menu from scratch

  published October 28, 2009

  What does it take to be hip these days? Not long ago it was a mullet, a PBR tallboy, and a pair of tapered jeans. But after a few visits to... More >>

• A night with Galactic Pizza's Justice League delivery squad

  published October 21, 2009

  It doesn't take long to forget that you're wearing spandex, or at least that's what Captain Awesome tells me. And he's right. After about half... More >>

• D'Amico Kitchen follows up legendary era with chic Italian

  published October 14, 2009

  For quite a long stretch, in the restaurant world, at least, where time is measured in a ratio like that of dog years, D'Amico Cucina was the... More >>

• Sea Change's Tim McKee brings sustainable seafood to the Guthrie

  published October 7, 2009

  For the first few weeks after Sea Change opened, every time someone asked me about it, I found myself mentioning three things: The place was... More >>

• Manners 101: Etiquette queen Angelyn Davis gives it to us straight

  published September 30, 2009

  The St. Paul Hotel's Business Etiquette class hadn't even started and I'd already committed my first faux pas. I realized it—or rather,... More >>

• Restaurant Cru, the Kitchen serve the suburbs fresh gourmet

  published September 23, 2009

  At the Grand Garage building in downtown Stillwater, someone had hastily taped a homemade sign to the glass doors, right under the words... More >>

• The Bootleg: Minnesota's signature country-club cocktail

  published September 16, 2009

  I first heard about the Bootleg from Dean Phillips, of Phillips Distilling, who told me he'd served the drink at the Food & Wine... More >>

• Butcher Block in Minneapolis offers 29 different kinds of wings

  published September 9, 2009

  When the waitress at the Butcher Block brought me a plate of chicken wings coated in peanut butter and chocolate syrup, I couldn't help but... More >>

• How Minnesotan is the State Fair's fare?

  published September 2, 2009

  If it's served on a stick, does that make it Minnesotan? Take your sugarcoated fingers out of the mini-doughnut bag and think about it for a... More >>

• Gold Nugget, Galaxy Drive-In, and Red's Savoy replace old classics

  published August 26, 2009

  Who doesn't have a soft spot in her heart for a hole-in-the wall? A place that serves classic American fare as thick with nostalgia as it is... More >>

• Acqua Restaurant, Margaux's Table give foodies reason to visit White Bear Lake

  published August 12, 2009

  Chef Margaret Doran's new restaurant, the tiny, lunch-service-only Margaux's Table, has just three components: an open kitchen, a communal... More >>

• Tavern on France goes overboard with 400,000 menu options

  published August 5, 2009

  At Tavern on France the other day, I studied a notepad printed with a list of ingredients and check-boxes as I considered ordering a custom... More >>

• Food critic spends day living off the land in Minneapolis

  published July 29, 2009

  Even from the passenger seat of a car whizzing down the freeway, Teresa Marrone can't help foraging. Scanning the blur of vegetation, she picks... More >>

• Northeast Social values old-fashioned camaraderie and great dinners

  published July 22, 2009

  One warm summer evening not too long ago, I sat at one of Northeast Social's sidewalk tables and watched a man in a white linen suit pour a... More >>

• Victory 44 wins as North Side's own gastropub

  published July 15, 2009

  When Sauced opened in the spring of last year, it was the first restaurant to bring any sort of culinary chic to Minneapolis's North Side. Its... More >>

• Worm compost bin produces great garden, clear conscience

  published July 8, 2009

  About once a week, I toss whatever food scraps I've collected into a plastic bin in my kitchen, and in less than a month they disappear. That's... More >>