German Food and Cooking

Winterfest mit Euro Dance Party

Heartland serves local, sustainable, organic for $12 or less

What's in Heartland's basket for less than $12?​We should all be so lucky to live in Lenny Russo's neighborhood. As the executive chef of Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market, which he co-owns with his wife, Mega Hoehn, Russo focuses his efforts locally--on the people who live and work cl ... More >>

Top 10 hot dogs in the Twin Cities

Who has the best Twin Cities tube steaks?​While the Twin Cities may not exactly be Chicago where hot dogs are concerned, we've still managed to establish a pretty diverse sausage scene. There are a few familiar faces on this list of Top 10 best places to grab a wiener, including past City Pages Be ... More >>

St. Nicholas Day (Nikolaustag) & Holiday Open Haus

Who has the best Twin Cities tube steaks?​While the Twin Cities may not exactly be Chicago where hot dogs are concerned, we've still managed to establish a pretty diverse sausage scene. There are a few familiar faces on this list of Top 10 best places to grab a wiener, including past City Pages Be ... More >>

Technique offers student-prepared three-course meals for $10

Le Cordon BleuTechnique serves halibut with a side of tomatoes, peas, and corn and fava bean succotash.​Formerly the Minnesota Room, Technique is a restaurant staffed by students at the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Mendota Heights. Technique offers a three-course lunch for $10, o ... More >>

Oktoberfest has arrived this week in food

Everyone is German at the Black Forest Inn​Fans of all things German and sausagey will be pleased with this week's offerings, which skew heavily toward a meat-and-beer theme thanks to Oktoberfest activities. 9/25 If you made it through the weekend without attending the Black Forest Inn's Okt ... More >>

Black Forest Oktoberfest offers 10 days of Deutsch-style fun

Don't be caught like a deer in the headlights: plan your Oktoberfest celebration!​The Black Forest restaurant kicks off its famous 10-day Oktoberfest celebration this weekend. On Friday, they'll host their annual Prost! Night (with celebrity keg tapper and KARE 11 meteorologist Sven Sundgaard). Sa ... More >>

Mill City Oktoberfest

Don't be caught like a deer in the headlights: plan your Oktoberfest celebration!​The Black Forest restaurant kicks off its famous 10-day Oktoberfest celebration this weekend. On Friday, they'll host their annual Prost! Night (with celebrity keg tapper and KARE 11 meteorologist Sven Sundgaard). Sa ... More >>

Metrodome's new food offerings look lame compared to Target Field's

The collapsed Metrodome makes a comeback.​Centerplate, a concessions provider for entertainment venues, convention centers, and sports stadiums, announced its new menu items for the 2011 NFL season at the Metrodome. If you're looking for Vikings-watching fuel, here's what you can expect:

Kramarczuk’s Kielbasa Festival

The collapsed Metrodome makes a comeback.​Centerplate, a concessions provider for entertainment venues, convention centers, and sports stadiums, announced its new menu items for the 2011 NFL season at the Metrodome. If you're looking for Vikings-watching fuel, here's what you can expect:

Kramarczuk's gummi bear brats: the taste test

Guess which brat contains gummi bears?​After hearing about a Hugo, Minnesota, meat market that started making gummi bear bratwurst, Orest Kramarczuk decided to make a 25-pound test batch at his own sausage shop, Kramarczuk's in NE Minneapolis. The Hot Dish picked one up for a taste test. Chec ... More >>

Beer dinners, caveman diets on this week's food calendar

Awash in tasty German brews​The lead-up to a long weekend of Fourth of July tomfoolery is heavy on beer events, which will be handy for stretching out your stomach in anticipation of hot dogs and potato salad. Embrace it.

Veggie sushi, new Twins concessions, Free Bacon Wednesday, and more this week in food

DIY veggie sushi at the Wedge this week​It's technically April, but the weather hasn't cooperated enough to officially declare patio season open for business just yet (remember last year when we hit 81 degrees on April 1? Sigh.) Luckily there are plenty of food-related activities to distract y ... More >>

Schmeckfest: South Dakota's Mennonite "dinner theater"

Photos by Nikki MillerGerman kuchen​The scene is a community center basement in rural South Dakota. Your ticket in hand, you wait in line as one after another, satiated women and very pregnant-looking men, suspenders stretched over their stuffed bellies, exit the dining room, freeing up space for ... More >>

The Black Forest Inn's roasted, infused vodka drink of the week

House-infused, Black Forest style​Roasted Walnut Infused Vodka$6The Black Forest Inn1 E. 26th St., Minneapolis612.872.0812After many months of doing the high brow thing, the Hot Dish wanted to take a walk on Eat Street and do the unthinkable -- have some vodka. So we slipped into The Black Forest ... More >>

Winterfest mit Euro Dance Party

House-infused, Black Forest style​Roasted Walnut Infused Vodka$6The Black Forest Inn1 E. 26th St., Minneapolis612.872.0812After many months of doing the high brow thing, the Hot Dish wanted to take a walk on Eat Street and do the unthinkable -- have some vodka. So we slipped into The Black Forest ... More >>

Christmas cookies from the Black Forest Inn

Kate N.G. Sommers​ December is here, and that means holiday treats. As a society, food is as traditional as it comes, provoking the digital onslaught of latke recipes, how to cook a turkey in 2,341 different ways, and of course, holiday cookies. Being a traditionalist, I bake the same cookies ... More >>

My Cousin Roy to bring the Wurst to TML

Photo courtesy subMercer​Sausage-obsessed DJ My Cousin Roy, aka Roy Dank, has been super busy lately. Actually, it's kind of unfair to refer to him only as a DJ, since Roy juggles spinning records all over the world, throwing parties, making tracks, and running both a record and clothing label out ... More >>

Twin Cities Oktoberfest

Photo courtesy subMercer​Sausage-obsessed DJ My Cousin Roy, aka Roy Dank, has been super busy lately. Actually, it's kind of unfair to refer to him only as a DJ, since Roy juggles spinning records all over the world, throwing parties, making tracks, and running both a record and clothing label out ... More >>

Wurst Night of Oktoberfest: Black Forest dishes up heart, tongue, and more on Monday

from BFI's Facebook pageYou can eat the rest of this deer.​For this year's Oktoberfest, the Black Forest Inn is bringing a little something special to your table. With a renewed interest in eating all the parts of the animal, BFI' is adding tongue, heart, liver, and kidneys to their Oktoberfest br ... More >>

Top 5 spots to celebrate Oktoberfest

It's not yet October, but it's time to fest!​What do desperate hausfraus, meter-long bratwurst, and dachshund races have in common? They're all part of upcoming Oktoberfest celebrations in the Twin Cities. So squeeze into your lederhosen and polish your steins: Here are several German-beer-d ... More >>

Mill City Oktoberfest

It's not yet October, but it's time to fest!​What do desperate hausfraus, meter-long bratwurst, and dachshund races have in common? They're all part of upcoming Oktoberfest celebrations in the Twin Cities. So squeeze into your lederhosen and polish your steins: Here are several German-beer-d ... More >>

Schell's Brewery's 150th anniversary is on tap for next month

Courtesy of Schell's BreweryIn 150 years, Schell's never inflicted habanero beer, maple syrup beer or peaches and cream beer on an unsuspecting public, but the brewery did make these beers for another company during the 1980s.​After 150 years, Schell's Brewery  continues to brew its beer from ... More >>

The Best of Hot Dish: August 16-20

tiki-kiliki/flickrTo wash down all the meat.​Meat. This week the Hot Dish was all about carnage. Big meat sandwiches, bratwurst, steak, charcuterie: roasted, fried, BBQed, and boiled. Read all about some of this week's meat-filled highlights here: ~Teddy Hobbins takes on a truly epic sandwich: ... More >>

National Bratwurst Day--we visit the very best place for wurst

Tj's Country Corner, a place of bratwurst dreams.​For National Bratwurst Day, which is unofficially Monday, August 16 (there is another school of NBD that celebrates August 3), we wanted to praise the brat by visiting the place that calls itself "The Best of the Wurst": TJ's Country Market in Maht ... More >>

Black Forest Inn wants YOU to design its Oktoberfest menu cover

​As a second tribute to National Bratwurst Day, here's an unusual opportunity at one of our favorite places to get wurst--Black Forest Inn:Do you fancy yourself an artist who really loves Oktoberfest? Then you should check out Black Forest Inn's Oktoberfest menu contest. The winning design will be ... More >>

Easter bunny, medium rare: Chefs discuss serving rabbit

Br'er Rabbit, we hardly knew ye.

Mill City Oktoberfest

Br'er Rabbit, we hardly knew ye.

Mill City Oktoberfest

Br'er Rabbit, we hardly knew ye.

Velvet Davenport and Dante and the Lobster tonight in the Clown Lounge

As if the Clown Lounge wasn't trippy enough.

Man vs. Food Minneapolis airs tonight

Will Adam polish off a metric yard of meat, or will he go home red-faced?

Drink of the Week: Apple Strudel

Will Adam polish off a metric yard of meat, or will he go home red-faced?

The Hot Dish Preview: 8/01/08

Will Adam polish off a metric yard of meat, or will he go home red-faced?

Road Trip: Target Bluff German Haus

Will Adam polish off a metric yard of meat, or will he go home red-faced?

Meritage: superb brasserie dining

The downtown St. Paul establishment has that touch of class

Critic's Notebook: Hyderabad House

The downtown St. Paul establishment has that touch of class

Critic's Notebook: Hyderabad House

The downtown St. Paul establishment has that touch of class

Elsewhere in Europe

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Take Me Out

Two hundred years of history as experienced in Minnesota's bars and restaurants

Sample Sale

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The Head Cheese Stands Alone

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The Fort Knox of Meat

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Haunted Haus

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Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit, Dem Gasthof

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