Pizza

Hello Pizza is a slice of heaven

The new Edina pizzeria boasts excellent toppings, flavorful sauce, and an A+ crust

Hello Pizza in southwest Minneapolis: A first look

Ann Kim knows her way around a pizza pie. Now that her Pizzeria Lola has become a bit of a phenomenon, she has moved into a new location with a new concept. Say hello to Hello Pizza. We stopped by for a first look at the new Linden Hills/Edina-area pizzeria. See also: Primebar closed Twin Citi ... More >>

Twin Cities ranked 6th best pizza in the country by Market Watch

On Sunday, Market Watch (published by the Wall Street Journal) ranked the Twin Cities as the sixth best city in the country for pizza. This is the second time this year that a national publication has cited Minneapolis-St.Paul as among the best pizza in the nation.The article calls out by ... More >>

Butcher & the Boar, Prairie Kitchen make best new Midwest restaurants list

And the good news just keeps on rolling in for Minneapolis restaurants. In their latest bout of regional attention, Midwest magazine named both Butcher & the Boar and the Prairie Kitchen & Bar to its list of best new Midwest attractions, hotels, and restaurants. The list is a  ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: January 7-11, 2013

It has been another week of scrumptious food and drink news here at the Hot Dish, as the Twin Cities dining scene continues to blossom. Here are a few of the week's top stories. ~We pay a visit to Union, the happening new place in downtown Minneapolis where craft cocktails and chef-dr ... More >>

Pizzeria Lola makes Food & Wine's list of 50 Best Pizza Places in the U.S.

Food & Wine magazine has called out Pizzeria Lola as one of the 50 best pizza joints in the U.S. Pizzeria Lola has become a quick Twin Cities classic for thin-crust, wood-fired, Neapolitan-style pizza.Here's where the restaurant ranked on the national list, and what local food personality Andrew ... More >>

Top 15 places to eat with kids in the Twin Cities

For parents who love good food, finding a restaurant that they and their kids will enjoy is like finding gold. The criteria can be formidable: The atmosphere should be fairly casual and noise-tolerant, so kids and adults can relax; the menu should offer simple and familiar food for kids but sophis ... More >>

Hello Pizza: Is this the pie you're looking for?

Yesterday on the Pizzeria Lola Facebook page, it was confirmed that they will be opening another restaurant, heralded by the above picture. In what may be the greatest preview campaign of all time, the picture quickly began circulating through social media and planting earworms citywide.

Fat Lorenzo's makes list of 51 great American pizza parlors

See Also:Top 10 pizzerias in the Twin CitiesFat Lorenzo's blood orange gelato: 100 Favorite Dishes, no. 13As part of its Great American Bites series, USA Today issued a list of 51 (one selection for each state, including D.C.) great pizza parlors. Thanks to a recommendation from James Norton, e ... More >>

The Munchies food awards include several local nominees

The recipe-swap, dinner-inspiration, and food-porn website Tablespoon, recently announced nominees for the Munchies, their first ever People's Choice-style food and restaurant awards. They're  judged by an expert panel that includes hometown star Andrew Zimmern, and the nominees include well-kn ... More >>

Pizzeria Lola's Ann Kim shines on 'Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives' [VIDEO]

In case you missed it, Minneapolis's own Pizzeria Lola was featured on an episode of the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives last night. Host Guy Fieri paid a visit to the south Minneapolis pizzeria along with local food celebrity Andrew Zimmern to get a peek at the kitchen and chef Ann Kim' ... More >>

Pizzeria Lola to be featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives tonight

Fans of Pizzeria Lola (City Pages' top-ranked Twin Cities pizza joint) can tune in to the Food Network tonight at 9 p.m. Central time to catch the acclaimed restaurant on an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The episode, called "Triple D All-Stars," follows host Guy Fieri to Georgetown, Texas ... More >>

Zamboni's Pizza catering to the Xcel crowd

A more straightforward approach to pizza

Fire and Ice

Top 10 pizzerias in the Twin Cities

Eat your heart out, Dominos​The Twin Cities is bursting with killer pizza. Some of the pizzerias on our Top 10 list are cultural institutions that staked out their place in the pizza hall of fame years ago. Others are newcomers, bursting onto the Twin Cities dining scene with all the fury of a ... More >>

Element Wood Fire Pizza opens in northeast Minneapolis

Gourmet pizza is crowded territory around here

Mesa Pizza coming to Uptown this fall

The popular Dinkytown shop expands to Uptown.​Mesa Pizza is opening a third location in Uptown, in the former home of the Ivy clothing shop at 1440 W. Lake Street, reports the Southwest Journal. The business recently leased the space and hopes to have the pizzeria open by October.

Marine on St. Croix destination dining

Brookside Bar & Grill, Olive's, and other must-visit places

Rachel's: a first look at the long-awaited NE restaurant

Michelle BruchWhat's behind the Rachel's sign? ​We'd been waiting for years--what, four of them?--for John Rimarcik to open the East Hennepin restaurant's doors. Finally, this spring, it happened. We were very curious to find out how Rachel's would fit in with other other nearby restaurants. ... More >>

A to Z's farm-raised pizza lures urbanites to the country

​Who in their right mind would drive 90 miles for a pizza? The expense! The time! The carbon emissions! There's probably a pizza joint two blocks from your house! And yet, right-minded people seem willing to drive to Stockholm, Wisconsin, from all over the Midwest, just to have a pizza at A to ... More >>

Did Red's Savoy Pizza "joke" go too far?

Red posts a joke more offensive than sauerkraut pizza.​If you enter the front door at Red's Savoy Pizza on E. Seventh Street in St. Paul, it can take several moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim, windowless, blue-collar pizzeria, which is known for its gruff schtick--a sign warns that th ... More >>

Domino's burglar leaves trail of sauce, sausage, and chips

To find the crook? Just follow the sauce. ​California police found themselves following a trail of pizza sauce, sausage, and potato chips from the site of a break-in at a Domino's pizza straight to their prime suspect. And we thought leaving your cell phone charging at the house you robbed was ... More >>

Do you go for dining deals?

Punch Neapolitan PizzaIs this a deal or a deal breaker?​Earlier this month, Punch Neapolitan Pizza posted on its Facebook page, Your ideas needed. We have gotten feedback that big promos make it hard for 'regulars' with long lines. What would be nice, fun smaller scale deals to try out [?] P ... More >>

Mozza Mia Pizzeria gets fresh

Gourmet pizza for mozzarella lovers

Pizzeria Lola serves up a slice of class in south Minneapolis

Pizza joint opens in former Xerxes Market space

Pizzeria Lola opening this month in South Minneapolis

Pizzeria Lola aspires to be "a neighborhood institution that fosters joy, beauty and friendship"​The corner of 56th Street and Xerxes Avenue in Southwest Minneapolis is about to get tastier. Ann Kim, an actor turned restaurateur, and her business partner Conrad Leifur are set to open Pizzeria ... More >>

Punch Pizza's big cheese, John Puckett, on the secrets of his success

Punch Pizza​John Puckett recoiled when I referred to him as the most prolific restaurateur in the Twin Cities, "Let's hope not." But the founder of Caribou coffee and partner in Punch Pizza can claim a hand in opening over 400 stores, easily eclipsing Famous Dave and his BBQ joints at 175. The ... More >>

Cossetta will change--and stay the same--in big St. Paul expansion

Renovations will bring a pastry shop, gelateria, menu changes, and more to St. Paul's beloved market and pizzeria​St. Paul recently announced that one of its oldest and most storied restaurants, Cossetta Italian Market & Pizzeria, will receive $2 million in loans from the city for a renovation ... More >>

Swede Hollow Cafe's new chef plans more local fare

Andrew Ciscel via Flickr.com​ St. Paul's Swede Hollow Café, best known for its cinnamon rolls and verdant patio, has a new man in the kitchen. Ali Koroglu, most recently the sous chef at Café Barbette in Minneapolis, took over the one-burner kitchen at Swede Hollow earlier this summer. He h ... More >>

Shakey's pizza returning to Minnesota

www.shakeys.comShakeys stages a comeback and will reopen in Minnesota next summer.​After nearly a decade-long absence, a pizza chain that once operated 16 locations in the state will return to Minnesota, with five new restaurants slated to open in the metro area. The franchise was launched b ... More >>

Broders vs. Cossetta in a pizza pie fight

Lisa Gulya​For the quick lunch crowd, this week's food fight takes on pizza by the slice. Read on to find out whether Broders' or Cosetta won us over, in a competition where the only thing greasing the judge's palms was the pepperoni.

Streetzza fire truck starts fires, puts out pizza

Monica WrightEatcha some Streetzza pizza​Seeing a fire rage on the back of a fire truck seems wrong...until a delicious pizza emerges from the flames. Nate Lane, owner of Minneapolis-based Thyme to Entertain catering, stumbled on a Craigslist ad for a 1972 East Bethel fire truck last year, a ... More >>

Mozza Mia: Coming Soon

​The Business Journal reports that Parasole has some big growth plans in store. The restaurant group's estimated 2009 revenue is about $60 million, and management has set a goal to grow to a point where they're making $100-$150 million in annual sales by adding multiple locations of existing c ... More >>

Cooqi: RIP

​Remember when gluten-free bakeries were cropping up like dandelions a couple of years ago? Mpls/St.Paul mag reports that the owner of Cooqi, on Marshall Avenue in St. Paul, has given up the shop to focus on baking mixes. Minneapolis's gluten-free bakery, Madwoman foods on Nicollet, remains op ... More >>

Lola's: Coming Soon

​ The Southwest Journal reports that the old Xerxes Market space (btw, how many decades had that space been a convenience store?) at 5555 Xerxes Ave. S. will become a pizzeria called Lola's. Don't confuse it with Lola's Lakehouse in Waconia: the owners plan to create a spot that's a mix betwee ... More >>

Pizza Nea offers free 'za

​The battle for best Neapolitan-style pizza in the Twin Cities rages on. If Punch Pizza can put out a bunch of awesome free pizza coupons, so can Pizza Nea: To encourage diners to try their Spring Pizza, Nea is offering a two-for-one special through May 15, so print this coupon and enjoy! The ... More >>

Now Open: Stadium Pizza and Diner

Expect to see more new restaurants--like this one--open up near the new Twins stadium.

Punch Pizza's gift that keeps on giving...

Punch offers gift certificates that give to the giver, too.

Now open: HomeMade Pizza Company

HomeMade Pizza Co. in Calhoun Commons is giving away free pizza and other treats for its grand opening today.

Coming soon: HomeMade Pizza Co. - Calhoun Commons

They make it, you take it and bake it. HomeMade Pizza Co. is coming to Calhoun Commons.

At Black Sheep, the Pizza Crust Can't Be Topped

Pie-Eating Contest

Who makes a better pizza—Solos or Latuff's?

Fast, Cheap, Great

Is there anyplace to get a great, cheap meal in this town anymore? Boy howdy, is there—here are six

Space Cadets

A new Lyn-Lake pizza joint combines do-gooding, fun, and pizza to charming effect

Punch Drunk Love

The Twin Cities' original neapolitan pizza purveyor is almost as hard to top as one of its top-flight pies

Crust Clobbers Snobbery

Details, Details

What the Tuscan kitchen at Arezzo really specializes in is botching the details

Ode to a Stinking Rose

Minneapolis's Prized Patrons of Pizza