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Restaurant Week launches with several new eateries

Restaurant Week, the seasonal event hosted four times a year by Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, has proved itself to be a hit with both restaurants and diners. Chefs get to pick the dishes on their menus that highlight the restaurants' strengths, and diners get to branch out and try new places at accessible ... More >>

Mysterious naked man photos, plastered in parks and on utilities, baffle Bloomington PD [PHOTOS]

It's been going on for a year, and Bloomington police have finally had enough.Yesterday, the Bloomington PD reached out to the media and asked for help gathering information about who's responsible for the mysterious naked dude photos that keep appearing on utility poles, stop signs, and in area par ... More >>

Hotel Sofitel offers FREE macarons tomorrow

​Spring is nearly here! The birds are chirping, the garden is starting to bloom, and in perhaps the clearest sign that winter is behind us, the Hotel Sofitel in Bloomington (how fitting) will be giving away free macarons in its bakery.

Cheap dates and chocolate fill this first March Week in Food

A lot of weeks we see the same types of events (beer, wine, beer, wine), but March is breaking the mold with not only a decadent chocolate exhibition but a class about how to power your kitchen appliances with solar energy. Sounds like a promising start to the month.

Five pro lacrosse players arrested following 30-person brawl at Bloomington T.G.I. Friday's

The T.G.I.'s food fight may be the second most epic on record, behind this one from Animal House.​Lacrosse can be a violent game, but normally, as is the case with other physical sports, players check their aggression at the locker room door.That wasn't the case early Monday morning for members of ... More >>

Food fight leads to 30-person brawl at Bloomington TGI Friday's

​ Folks stopping by the Bloomington T.G.I. Friday's last night for a late-night bite were treated to a scene right out of Vince McMahon's imagination.A little before 1 a.m. (who knew T.G.I.'s stayed open that late!), a huge melee broke out involving as many as 30 patrons. Seven were arrested for r ... More >>

Last chance to eat for tornado relief at RedRossa Italian Grille

Debbie TallenRedRossa opened in June across from the Mall of America in Bloomington​RedRossa Italian Grille, which opened last month in Bloomington, has been donating $1 from the sale of every lunch and dinner entree to benefit victims of the North Minneapolis tornado since they opened their ... More >>

Ed Fong of David Fong's: Chef Chat, Part 3

Ed Fong of David Fong's in Bloomington​He's not the chef, but Ed Fong is in charge of all that happens at David Fong's, the Bloomington restaurant that has been around for over 50 years. He's cooked, he's cleaned, and he's emptied trashcans during his many years working at the storied Chinese eate ... More >>

Ed Fong of David Fong's: Chef Chat Part 1

Ed Fong at David Fong's​David Fong's first opened its doors in 1958 as a small takeout chow mein joint. In 1966, it moved to its present location on Lyndale Avenue in Bloomington. David Sr. and his wife Helen started the business, and when they retired, they turned it over to eldest son Ed Fong, k ... More >>

Purple Sandpiper RIP

One of the south suburbs' most interesting eateries shuts its doors.​One of the south suburbs' most interesting restaurants was recently forced to shut its doors. Bloomington's Purple Sandpiper closed due to "MUCH slower than expected sales and the lack of steady business," its owner, M. Haid ... More >>

37th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival

One of the south suburbs' most interesting eateries shuts its doors.​One of the south suburbs' most interesting restaurants was recently forced to shut its doors. Bloomington's Purple Sandpiper closed due to "MUCH slower than expected sales and the lack of steady business," its owner, M. Haid ... More >>

America's Next Great Restaurant now hiring in Bloomington!

Work for the folks you've seen on TV.​Are you a fan of America's Next Great Restaurant who's looking for employment? The forthcoming Bloomington location of the as-of-yet-undetermined winning restaurant is hiring cashiers, front of the house, prep cooks, and bakers.

Panchero's Block E RIP

Block E is a ghost mall.​Slumping revenues have shuttered tenant after tenant in downtown's storied Block E, including Applebee's and Hooters. But the recent closure of Panchero's Mexican Grill was due to the fast food eatery's not fitting in with the new owner's redevelopment plans, according ... More >>

Cowboy Jack's rides into Bloomington next month

Giddyup! Another Cowboy Jack's is in the works.​For awhile, the After Midnight Group--the folks behind Cowboy Slim's, the Cabooze, and a few other rough-n-tumble food and beverage spots-has been planning on opening another restaurant in the former Steak and Ale in Bloomington, at 494 and Xerxe ... More >>

Panchero's offers $1 burritos tonight

Burritos for $1, today only!​Several metro area Pancheros Mexican Grills have recently closed, but fans can ease their sorrows at the restaurant's Dollar Burrito Night, which takes place today from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Bloomington location at 5200 West 84th St. Though Pancheros is an Iowa-base ... More >>

Fuddruckers returns to Bloomington

A top 3 burger​The Fuddruckers saga in Minnesota has more twists and turns than a Mexican telenovela, but the latest will please loyal fans: as of 11 a.m. today, the Bloomington location has re-opened as a legit Fuddruckers location.

Last farm in Bloomington tangled in court battle

photo from FacebookControversy surrounds this historic farm.​ It is a strange sight: a picturesque 60-acre farm at the end of a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport runway in Bloomington, near the Mall of America. On a bluff overlooking the Minnesota river, with pastures and barns, sheep and ... More >>

Ronnie from Jersey Shore to party in Bloomington

MTV​People who missed the opportunity to hang with the Situation last February will get another chance to drink in the presence of marginal celebrity when Ronnie Ortiz-Magro makes an appearance in Bloomington this weekend.

Purple Sandpiper now open in Bloomington

www.purplesandpiper.comPiping up pork belly and lemon ricotta pancakes?​Just when we were bellyaching about Bloomington's lack of a dining scene, along comes news of not only a south metro Majors transitioning to Poor Richard's Commonhouse, but word that the ambitious Ryan Aberle, late of Nort ... More >>

Inside Parma 8200: the tour

​If our recent review got you salivating for the food at Parma 8200,  now you can feast your eyes on their dining room. The space is tucked into a towering office complexes in Bloomington, a deceptively sleepy front for a restaurant that was bustling until closing time on a recent visit. ... More >>

Parma 8200 revives Bloomington's staid dining scene

D'Amico-owned Italian makes strides with modern dishes

ICE busts Sureno-13 and Vatos Locos gang members

Photo: ICESureno members were among those arrested​Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said today they've arrested 18 members from notorious gangs including Sureno-13 and Vatos Locos working the drug trade in Minneapolis, Bloomington and Richfield. The arrests came after a weeklong op ... More >>

Bloomington gangbanger drive-by yields 5 arrests

PhotoTony Webster​At least six shots were fired at a group of people standing outside a house on the 8000 block of Portland Avenue South in Bloomington last night. No one was injured, but bullets struck the house and two vehicles in the driveway. Bloomington police spokesman Mark Stehlic says shor ... More >>

Dakota Rey Kohler-Lander, of New York, was 3rd Mall of America falling death this month (UPDATE)

The man, who was trying to get away from security officers, climbed over the railing of the fourth floor.

2,577 arrested for driving drunk during December in Minnesota

The arrests are part of a federally-funded crackdown that will continue into 2010, the State Patrol says.

Gagne, accused of having sex with Cretin-Derham Hall teen, surrenders

Prosecutors say Gail Gagne engaged in unlawful sex with a student in the summer of 2008.

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Prosecutors say Gail Gagne engaged in unlawful sex with a student in the summer of 2008.

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Prosecutors say Gail Gagne engaged in unlawful sex with a student in the summer of 2008.

Man busted at airport with child porn in suitcase, police say

The chance of having your bag fully searched at the airport these days is pretty high. So you'd think someone who chooses to look at child porn might decide to leave his photos back at home while he travels.

Free root beer floats tonight at Sonic

Kick off summer, drive-in style, tonight from 8 to 9 p.m.

35th Annual MayDay Parade and Festival

Kick off summer, drive-in style, tonight from 8 to 9 p.m.

Five tips for enjoying 98 Pounds' Chinese/sushi buffet

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Your Dish Here

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Suburban World: The Norling Photos

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Cold-Blooded Critters

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Urinetown: The Musical

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Geek Squad: im in ur hard drive, steeling ur pr0n

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T.Q.D.: Not Yet

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Kids Don't Follow

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Gabby goes belly up

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St. Paul goes smoke free

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Bloomington to smokers: No dice

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Anti-abortion convention to be held in Bloomington

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