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How to Swear Like a Minnesotan

Sample Buffalo Sweat and Italian classics this chilly Week in Food

We know -- it's hard to muster the strength to leave your house when there's a minus in front of that all-important temperature digit. But trust us that it's worth it this week, whether you're rallying to go to the (outdoor) beer festival in St. Paul on Saturday or just driving over to the Four Firk ... More >>

Downtown Mpls water main break: No poop in the North Loop

Around 2:30 this afternoon, contractors working on a development project at Hennepin Avenue and North 2nd Street nailed a 36-inch water main responsible for bringing water to much of the City of Lakes, disrupting water service and rush-hour traffic and flooding a portion of the North Loop.SEE ALSO: ... More >>

Mill City Oktoberfest

From pho to homemade pie this Week in Food

This Week in Food begins with pho and ends with pie, the ideal bookends to the final week in September. 9/27 Mississippi Market offers the chance to meander through Southeast Asian cooking in an entirely gluten-free fashion at Thursday night's class "Cooking Southeast Asian Flavors." The distinct ... More >>

Festa Italiana arrives this Week in Food

It's a packed Week in Food, with a wine-tasting club, Festa Italiana on Harriet Island, and a lesson in Argentine cooking. Luckily it's all spread out over the week, so if you're dedicated, there's no reason not to hit up each and every one. 9/18 Just because you're young doesn't mean you can't b ... More >>

Taste of Stillwater and cold soups crowd this Week in Food

Summer means your Week in Food events can be indoors (like the excellent farmers market exhibit at Mill City Museum) or in the great wide open (the second annual Taste of Stillwater), so you can mend your sunburn or enjoy a frosty beer in the sun -- your call. 7/9 If you haven't checked out the Mi ... More >>

Fourth of July Celebrations

Fall into the Beermuda Triangle this Week in Food

Baseball, beer, chocolate, charity...we're hitting all the major marks this Week in Food, and it's not even officially summer. 6/5 Start your week off right with the Wedge's class Chocolate Heaven, where students will enjoy a light meal before watching demos of ultimate chocolate chip cookies, bit ... More >>

Paired dinners for all this Week in Food

Beer. Cigars. Wine. This week we've got paired dinners for pretty much every interest, plus Kim Ode slinging rhubarb in all its sweet and savory forms. A fairly unique week in food if we do say so. 4/24 If you're the type who appreciates having a stogie with your meal, then Tria is the place for y ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: April 16-20, 2012

It's the time of the lilacs, when all things are fresh and new--which is why we love bringing you the freshest of food news here at the Hot Dish. Here are a few of a week's top stories.~The long awaited "Best of the Twin Cities" issue is now on newsstands and online. Tell us what you think ... More >>

Mill City Museum kicks off farmers market exhibit tonight

With its idyllic location next to one of the best farmers markets in the Twin Cities, perhaps no museum is better suited to hosting an exhibit on "the unique confluence of community aspiration, cultural exchange, and economic activity popularly known as farmers markets" than the Mill City Museum. T ... More >>

Gastro Non Grata and CSA selections this Week in Food

We're inching toward farmer's market season, and the proof is in this week's events: from a CSA fair at Seward Co-op to the opening of Mill City Museum's new "Growing Strong: How Farmers Markets Nourish People, Communities and the Planet" exhibit, the veggies are in the air this Week in Food. 4/17 ... More >>

Recover from Thanksgiving with more eating this Week In Food

Still have your eatin' pants on after Thanksgiving's annual gorging? Because we've got plenty of food-centric happenings on tap this week, and in the lead-up to Christmas you can expect an increased intake of sweets and booze. Win/win.

North Star Bartenders Guild book release party

Joy SummersWhy hello there, you Handsome Devil​The Mill City Museum was filled with the sounds of cocktail shakers vigorously agitating booze and ice cubes Thursday night as fans of fine liquors converged to celebrate the release of Johnny Michaels's North Star Bartenders Guild book, Northstar Coc ... More >>

Johnny Michaels, La Belle Vie mixologist, opens up about his past, his craft, and his new book

MNHSJohnny Michaels ​Johnny Michaels has been a fixture in the Twin Cities cocktail scene for as long as I can remember. He has maintained one of the coolest and most interesting cocktail lists in town at La Belle Vie since it moved to its current location at 510 Groveland. He has written for seve ... More >>

Mill City Bread Festival this weekend

Mill City Farmers Market and the Mill City Museum are joining forces to celebrate the Bread Festival, sponsored by Gold Medal Flour. This will be the first of an annual event celebrating the traditions of American bread-baking. The festival will include demonstrations and a bread-baking contest. He ... 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 >>

Fringe Festival 2011: A preview of your best bets

Theater fans can pick from 168 shows

Gather by D'Amico opens in the Walker

Featured local chefs rotate through the kitchen

Mill City Live resumes tonight due to resolution of state shutdown

​The government shutdown affected a few live music events in the Twin Cities, namely the series Mill City Live at the Mill City Museum in downtown Minneapolis and 9 Nights of Music at the History Center in downtown St. Paul. With the shutdown finally resolved, Mill City Live will resume/kick-off t ... More >>

Palmest 2011: Full lineup and set times

City Pages file photo​If you don't make it down to the Mill City Museum tonight for Spider John Koerner and Tony Glover, you'll have another chance to catch Koerner this weekend when he plays Palmfest, the celebration of West Bank music that takes over Palmer's Bar each summer. This year's lineup ... More >>

Wise Acre Eatery is true farm-to-table dining in south Minneapolis

Try the Royal Brie & Bacon Burger

Minnesota History Center's '9 Nights of Music' canceled tonight, Mill City Live in limbo due to government shutdown

​The effects of the government's failure are still rolling out this week, as Governor Mark Dayton and the GOP continue their contentious budget negotiations today and Minnesota enters its fourth day of statewide shutdown. The Minnesota History Center has announced that tonight's "9 Nights of Music ... More >>

Mill City Live will showcase 'Minnesota Legends' for 2011 season

​The Mill City Live series, which presents bands in the stunning setting of the Mill City Ruin, is getting ready to kick off its first event of 2011 next Thursday, July 7. This season, Mill City invited guest curator Jim Walsh to help them book a lineup of "Minnesota Legends" that span five decade ... More >>

Mill City Farmers' Market

Scandinavian Classic Baking teaches lefse making and more

Your Scandinavian grandmother substitute.​Are you lacking a Scandinavian grandmother and tired of waiting for church bake sales to get your hands on some sandbakkels? A new book, Scandinavian Classic Baking, by local cookbook author Pat Sinclair, rounds up recipes for the best baked goods from ... More >>

20.21 closing, D'Amico confirmed for Walker Art Center food service

D'Amico ousts Wolfgang Puck from the Walker. ​"It's true," says Richard D'Amico, when asked about Heavy Table's anonymous report that his restaurant group would be ousting 20.21 from its prime digs at the Walker Art Center. D'Amico says he was recently approached by a Walker consultant, alon ... More >>

Plank Road reopens as a concrete slab

Photo: gesika22Plank Road gets the wood out.​That admirable but boneheaded move - in hindsight -- by the City of Minneapolis to "pave" part of River Road with wooden boards has now been consigned to the scrap heap. The one-block stretch of "Plank Road" between Portland Avenue to 11th Avenue, ... More >>

The Minneapolis Horror: Tales from the Night Shift

Canning tips from Ana Micka of 'The Fresh Girl's Guide to Canning'

Now is the season to can like crazy.​This being the zenith of the canning season, the Hot Dish spoke with Ana Micka, author of  The Fresh Girl's Guide to Easy Canning and founder of the the Food Preservation Network, community educators on canning and preserving, who had sage advice for the n ... More >>

Oktoberfest, Lyn-Lake Block Party: Freeloader Friday

covilha via Flickr.com​ As the seasons change, so do the types of events happening around town. This weekend we have two different Oktoberfest festivals, a block party (bring an umbrella), and free films.

Simple, Good, and Tasty teams with Barbette this Week in Food

Dinner with a little history at Nicollet Island Inn. ​It's a big week, eaters. Meet your neighbors, support some charities (and your wine habit), and do a little cooking with tea this Week in Food. Monday 9/20 Bust out your inner sommelier at Crave's weekly wine class. Tonight sample wines from ... More >>

Mill City Farmers Market celebrates fifth anniversary

The Mill City Farmers Market celebrates five years of bounty for the senses​It all started back in June 2006, when Brenda Langton (chef-owner of Spoonriver restaurant) founded the Mill City Farmers Market on the banks of the Mississippi River, between the Mill City Museum and the new Guthrie ... More >>

Street food takes over the Twin Cities

In search of the best meal on wheels

Spider John Koerner gives us a reason to whiskey tonight and tomorrow

photo via Red House Records​Seeing Spider John Koerner live is a lucky thing, something we get treated to more often than, say, we deserve. Memories or wishes of north woods hootenannies and smoke-filled parlors in the sixties as all those jubilantly drunk revelers stomp and squall towards sunrise ... More >>

Mill City Live performance schedule announced

Photo via MillCityMuseum.org​The Mill City has announced its lineup for this year's Mill City Live series, which is a great, low-key way to catch local musicians in downtown Minneapolis at the end of the workday. Tickets to the shows are $5, and include admission to the Mill City Museum from 4-9 p ... More >>

Mill City Oktoberfest

Mill City Oktoberfest

Failed wood-beam road on W. River Road to be replaced for $435,000

If you've ever driven on the Minneapolis West River Road behind the Mill City Museum, you've probably noticed the strange stretch of wood-beam road that is obnoxiously loud and now causing more problems than it's worth.

Caroline Smith tonight at the Mill City Museum

Another promising show in the Mill City Live series.

Twin Cities songbird Caroline Smith finds the sweet spot

Singer-songwriter fulfills dream of playing at First Avenue

Five Questions For... Marie Wolf of breadbasketcase

Mill City Museum's 5th Anniversary

What's New at Mill City Farmers Market

Fall Arts Movies

The Show Must Go On... and On... and On

Not Reviewed Here: Another 140 Fringe Plays. Sorry.

I'm Special

Put on the pancake makeup and the monkey suit, superstar. It’s time to act out Fringe Fest-style.

River City Rebirth

Minneapolis's restaurant scene is reborn—again!—This time with big money and farm-positive ideals.