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April 10, 2013Lake Harriet has Bread & Pickle, Minnehaha Falls has Sea Salt, and Lake Calhoun has Tin Fish. Lake Nokomis is arguably just as popular and beloved warm-weather recreation destination, but somehow it had been overlooked as a site for a small waterfront eatery. That is, until last summer, when the ... More >>
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April 3, 2013Inside the Mall of America tundra, the knives will be sharp, the ingredients strange, and the chefs ready for an all-out throwdown. The annual Chef Challenge competition from Minnesota Monthly magazine pits many of the area's top chefs against one another to win the title and an oversized check. Thi ... More >>
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March 25, 2013As a countdown to the Best of the Twin Cities 2013, coming April 17, the Hot Dish is serving up 50 of our favorite local dishes. In Sweden, to fika is to break for coffee and a snack. You can fika midday, fika as a low-pressure date, or fika to delay getting started on your taxes, but rega ... More >>
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March 6, 2013Eater.com has released a list of 25 of the nation's most underrated restaurants, i.e., places that are on par with the top eateries in the country but don't always get the media attention they deserve or are overshadowed by their more-hyped or long-established peers. Two Chicago restaurants -- Near ... More >>
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March 4, 2013Young philanthropists getting together to help raise funds to support young entrepreneurs was the name of the game at this years Graze 4 Good event hosted in Midtown Global Market's kitchen space, Kitchen in the Market. The yearly event was put on by Fourth Generation, a program of the Minneapolis F ... More >>
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February 19, 2013Today the James Beard Award semi-finalists were announced. The food world's annual answer to the Oscars recognizes the best in the business. Winners carry the proud title throughout their career. Past local honorees include the likes of Isaac Becker, Alex Roberts, and Tim McKee. This year's list inc ... More >>
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January 18, 2013During the chilliest days of winter, nothing will keep you warm quite like stellar food and drink. Here's the latest Twin Cities gastro news from this week's Hot Dish. ~We visit St. Paul's rockin' east side to check out Ward 6, the latest neighborhood bistro with a strong chef-driven menu and c ... More >>
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January 16, 2013In the search for the Twin Cities' best culinary creations, we often come across dishes that stop us mid-bite and force us to reflect on the level of thought and artistry chefs put into their work. The efforts of the chefs are often laborious, and the end results are regularly consumed before the fu ... More >>
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July 30, 2012See also:Lake Nokomis calls for food vendorsIn early May, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation issued a request for proposals from potential food vendors who wanted to put in a bid to operate a new concession business on Lake Nokomis. After reviewing all the submissions, last week the Community Advisory ... More >>
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April 30, 2012After Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl defected for its direct competitor Mpls St. Paul Magazine, Minnesota Monthly put out a national call for food writers and critics to submit their work. They needn't have looked further than their own pages, where Rachel Hutton recently wrote a fascinating ... More >>
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April 3, 2012If the Food Network's two top-rated competition shows decided to set down in a nice Midwestern town, their spawn would have been the yearly Local Chef Challenge, which played out this weekend at the Mall of America. Some of the most talented toques were selected to go head to head with a box of s ... More >>
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February 21, 2012The James Beard award semifinalist list was announced today, and on the list were some familiar names. The awards were established in 1990 and named for chef, food writer, and celebrated lover of life, James Beard. The awards are the highest honor available to food professionals. Part of why the ... More >>
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February 17, 2012Doug Flicker, taste technicianMinneapolis's own culinary mad scientist is teaming with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the St. Paul Art Crawl to head up a class discussing, in their words, "the intersection of art and science." Piccolo restaurant's Doug Flicker is paired with Dr. Gary A ... More >>
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January 5, 2012Piccolo Chef and Co-Owner Doug FlickerTo kick off 2012, we're highlighting 12 of the best dishes under $12 the Twin Cities has to offer.
When Doug Flicker garnishes a plate, he does not mess around. A tray to his left is piled with yellow flowers and tiny greens, and one by one he's meticul ... More >>
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September 21, 2011Photo: Steve Neuharth, Michelle LeonReason No. 11: Chefs like Doug Flicker at Piccolo create food that doesn't just impress--it inspires. When Anthony Bourdain last year told his TV audience on No Reservations that his experience at Doug Flicker's south Minneapolis restaurant Piccolo was "far ... More >>
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June 20, 2011Michelle LeonBig island flavors, tiny space.What's nice about dining in a small space? The coziness creates the ability for the chefs and barkeeps to really take time to give you their attention, and, while it's not every Minnesotan's cup of tea, you can also visit with your neighboring tables. L ... More >>
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May 17, 2011The skies might not be friendlier, but things on the ground are tastierWhat began with Ike's and Surdyk's has expanded into a dramatically upgraded foodie experience at MSP International, with new restaurants from a veritable who's who of local star chefs popping up on Concourse G at the Lindberg ... More >>
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January 11, 2011dane brian via Flickr.comIf you've resolved to cook more in 2011, you're in luck: The Twin Cities boasts a wealth of chefs with advice at the ready, and they have more to say than just, "Eat out." (Though they wouldn't mind if you did, of course.)The Hot Dish took chefs' tips for home cooks f ... More >>
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December 29, 2010Piccolo, Travail, and more
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October 20, 2010Find out who took home first prize...In case you missed last week's Iron Fork and 4-Orange Iron Cocktail competitions at International Market Square, we've got the photographic recap for 'ya right here, right down to the presence of the 4-Orange vodka girls prancing around in some sort of ora ... More >>
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October 13, 2010Food as blood sport. Six of the Twin Cities' top chefs will engage in a culinary shootout tomorrow night at City Pages' annual Iron Fork competition--and you can win a pair of tickets for free.
Star chefs from Piccolo, Chef Shack, and Barbette, among others, will show off their skills in a ... More >>
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August 6, 2010 A.J. OlmscheidThis is the third and final part part of our chef chat with Piccolo's Doug Flicker. (Here's part 1 and part 2 if you missed them.) Read on to find out how Flicker transformed from a kid who ate ring baloney sandwiches to a chef who has cooked at the James Beard House in New Yor ... More >>
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August 5, 2010A.J. OlmscheidToday we return with the second part of our chef chat with Piccolo's Doug Flicker. Piccolo's "'mini-entrees" won the praise of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain when he visited the restaurant for the "Heartland" episode of his Travel Channel show, No Reservations, which aired in July. ... More >>
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August 4, 2010A.J. OlmscheidDoug Flicker, owner of the six-month-old restaurant Piccolo, sounds like a chef you wouldn't expect to see on television. He started working as a cook, he says, "because I didn't want to deal with going out on weekends." He says he's still more comfortable in the kitchen than ch ... More >>
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July 9, 2010In honor of Thom Pham's announcement that he'll be opening a new restaurant, Wanderers, at 555 Hennepin Ave.--a space notorious for its quick turnover of restaurant operators--Hot Dish decided to take a look at the Top 5 Jinxed Restaurant Locations.
Will Thom Pham have better luck in this downtow ... More >>
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March 17, 2010Servers' pay is often double that of chefs
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March 11, 2010You just threw out your Nalgenes and now you're eating food cooked in plastic?
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March 10, 2010Doug Flicker's new restaurant is pint-size, but not on taste
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February 18, 2010Doug Flicker plus Left Hand Brewing equals a delicious evening!
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January 19, 2010Doug Flicker's tiny eatery packs plenty of punch
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January 15, 2010Years in the making, Doug Flicker's new restaurant Piccolo opens today South Minneapolis.
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December 30, 2009Aquavit? Cafe un deux trois? Are you old enough to remember any of these?
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November 3, 2009Guess which local chef snapped up the former Agri site? We couldn't be more excited!
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August 19, 2009Guess which original Cucina chef is coming back to D'Amico Kitchen?
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November 7, 2007Acclaimed local chef Doug Flicker has finally rolled out his own menus at Mission American Kitchen
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July 25, 2007Steven Brown is back! After the '07 Massacre, Minneapolis is regrouping in other ways, too.
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May 2, 2007Got Champagne tastes and a Grain Belt budget? Welcome to the Minneapolis of your dreams.
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February 7, 2007What's on the menu board tonight? A heaping platter of regret—and recriminations
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January 31, 2007Auriga has closed—and so have Five and Levain. Is Minneapolis over?
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December 21, 2005Why all the taste-making top-tier kitchens in the Twin Cities are suddenly awash in plastic bags
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December 15, 2004If life gives you lemons, that's a start. But local chefs cook with a symphony of sour.
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December 31, 2003A top-10 list for a banner year
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December 24, 20032003: The year everything got Big, in both ambition and execution, but pandering lurked darkly in the background
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August 7, 2002Spanish cheese as a talent-retention tool?
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March 6, 2002Tasting menus near and far, or what I did on my Winter vacation
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January 28, 1998If I told you that Auriga is thoroughly congenial! charming! and very, very nice!, would you read any further?
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