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Cinco de Mayo, Great Waters cask dinner kick off May this Week in Food

It's (almost) May, and our week in food reflects this most welcome month: Cinco de Mayo cooking classes and a new chef at Gather just to name a few. Enjoy!

Amazing Thailand hosts Songkran Festival

Last Friday marked the start of Songkran, a three-day festival celebrating the Thai New Year. Minneapolis locals kicked off the holiday a little early on Thursday night at Amazing Thailand in Uptown, with traditional dance demonstrations, a display of elaborate fruit carvings, all-night happy hour, ... More >>

Top 5 ways to celebrate National Peanut Butter Day

At this point, anyone with a computer and a random craving could declare any day on the calendar to be National Pizza Day, or National Rhubarb Day, and social media being what it is, the world would believe it in a matter of hours. But when we learned that today is National Peanut Butter Day, we th ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: February 6 -February 10, 2012

This week at the Hot Dish the stories were extra hot to warm the coldest of days. Here are a few of the week's top reports. ​~We know many of you want to get your lovin' on for Valentine's Day; here's our picks for the most romantic restaurants for you and your snookums.~We also know tha ... More >>

Krungthep Thai is the real deal

Eat Street spot wins with authenticity

Ford plant closure symptomatic of capitalism's ills, writes World Socialist

​Weeks after the last Ford vehicle build in Minnesota rolled off the Highland Park assembly line, the World Socialist Website writes that the plant's closure is symptomatic of the decline of American manufacturing. The fact that one of the world's leading sources for left-wing news and analysis pi ... More >>

Month in Review: Open, Closed, Coming Soon January 2012

​NOW OPENColossal Cafe(2315 Como Ave, St. Paul)Rosa Mexicano (City Pages Review)(609 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis)Little Szechuan (City Pages Review)(5377 West 16th St., St. Louis Park)West Bank Diner(324 Cedar Ave S. Minneapolis)Five Guys Burgers and Fries(8360 3rd St N., Oakdale)Eat Street Pi ... More >>

Top 5 INDOOR food truck experiences

We'll miss you, sunny days of summer​Day by day our favorite street finds are dropping out of the game. A few intrepid souls like Nate of Natedogs and the vivacious ladies of Fork in the Road plan to stay out all winter long. Others, like Lisa Carlson and Carrie Summers of the Chef Shack, will lea ... More >>

JOY: A Holiday Cabaret

We'll miss you, sunny days of summer​Day by day our favorite street finds are dropping out of the game. A few intrepid souls like Nate of Natedogs and the vivacious ladies of Fork in the Road plan to stay out all winter long. Others, like Lisa Carlson and Carrie Summers of the Chef Shack, will lea ... More >>

Chrysanthemum juice at Bangkok Thai: Drink of the week

Flower-kissed.Chrysanthemum juice $2 Bangkok Thai 315 University Ave. W., St. Paul 651.224.4300 In an usual mosaic-covered building on University Avenue, some of the most mind-blowingly delicious and authentic Thai food is served. This place falls into that "hole-in-the-wall" category. The menu is ... More >>

Gai Gai Thai brings feisty street fare to the farmers markets

Try Gai Gai Thai's green curry rice and Thai iced tea. ​On some of these summer days when it's been hot as Bangkok at 9 'o clock in the morning, we figure, Why try to beat it, when we can join it? Such weather is just an excuse to indulge in the Southeast Asian street eats of farmers' market ... More >>

Hangover II: Didn't we already see this movie?

Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis star in dude comedy

University Avenue's best Asian restaurants

Restaurants worth fighting LRT construction.​This week's Dish review dubbed On's Thai Kitchen on University at Snelling in St. Paul as a restaurant worth enduring the hassle of LRT construction (Work is now being done between Emerald and Hamline, with the 'dozers moving on to the rest of Universit ... More >>

Naviya's and On's Thai spice up the Twin Cities

Two new Thai restaurants in Linden Hills and St. Paul

St. Paul's Hmong Village offers food galore! See our new slideshow.

Hmong Village, now open.​Walking through the new Hmong Village in St Paul's East Side is truly a unique experience. Like the Hmongtown Marketplace on Como and Marion, the sheer volume and variety of food is astonishing with 35 produce vendors and 17 restaurants. Endless bubble teas, medicinal herb ... More >>

The Melting Pot celebrates boobs this Week in Food

Tschadi & ZehntnerEat this. ​We're all over the board this week, from pasta to Asian wine pairings to roaches and rodents to fondue for boobs. It's a lot to take on, but we know you're up to the challenge of this Week in Food. Monday 10/25 Get your eatin' pants on--it's World Pasta Day. The ... More >>

Sen Yai Sen Lek vs. Taste of Thailand: Who has the best pad thai?

A.J. OlmscheidA taste of Taste of Thailand's pad thai​This week Food Fight went for another top takeout dish, pad thai. Between our two competitors, Taste of Thailand and Sen Yai Sen Lek, we found that while the main ingredients are fairly uniform--a heaping pile of noodles, a sprinkling of c ... More >>

Best new patios

Michelle LeonUptown Cafeteria's new Skybar is king!​We all have our favorite standbys for outdoor drinking and dining--W.A. Frost's lush garden patio, the busy sidewalk seats at French Meadow, or the Dennis Rodman-drawing roofdeck at Stella's. But have you checked out the breezy surrounds at t ... More >>

Top ten memorable celebrity twins

​This weekend twins, triplets, quads, and their families will make a pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio for the Twins Days Festival. In deference to this celebration of multiples, we've put together a list of some of the most memorable twins. Some are famous because they're beautiful, others for th ... More >>

Chef Shack debuts at 5th and Hennepin

Donuts for breakfast, tacos for lunch​The smell of Indian-spiced mini-doughnuts in the steaming core of downtown Minneapolis is not a trick: The Chef Shack has set up shop at the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue and is offering its trademark doughnuts, tacos, Arnie Palmers, and even ... More >>

Forced repatriation of ethnic Hmong raises state senator's ire

Mee Moua joins the international outcry over the fate of 4,000 Hmong forced to return to Laos.

Loring Kitchen and Ginger Hop: The hits and misses

Add these two to the long list of new Twin Cities restaurants

Hmong Stories: Yesterday & Tomorrow

Add these two to the long list of new Twin Cities restaurants

Roat Osha replaces Uptown Thai staple Sawatdee

Name translates to "food for a king"—so is it?

DIY-On-The-Fly: Banana leaf fish

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Hmong find BK's 'burger virgins' ad hard to stomach

Teens charged in nursing home abuse, Hopkins text threat grammar

Tuesday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Sen Yai Sen Lek: the family behind the food.

Tuesday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

The Hot Dish Preview: 7/4/08

Tuesday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Where to buy the mysterious mangosteen

Tuesday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

An Amazing Moment

Tuesday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Various Artists

Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics 1918-1955

Final Refuge

Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

4/23 Morning Communiqué

Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

2/7 Morning Communiqué

Karen immigrants describe their harrowing journeys from the brutality of Burma to sanctuary in St. Paul

Nasty, Brutish, Shortish

Anthony Bourdain's newest, The Nasty Bits, is perfect summer reading: Riveting to pick up, easy to put down

Savage Love

Anthony Bourdain's newest, The Nasty Bits, is perfect summer reading: Riveting to pick up, easy to put down

Free Will Astrology

Anthony Bourdain's newest, The Nasty Bits, is perfect summer reading: Riveting to pick up, easy to put down

The Last Place on Earth

After the final remaining Hmong refugee camp in Thailand closed, Minnesota greeted five thousand new residents with warm words and closed doors. Now many are homeless and struggling to survive.

Rattawut Lapcharoensap: Sightseeing

After the final remaining Hmong refugee camp in Thailand closed, Minnesota greeted five thousand new residents with warm words and closed doors. Now many are homeless and struggling to survive.

The Accidental Tourist

Surveying China with Hero cinematographer Christopher Doyle

Heartland Cooking, With Fish Sauce

Cooking instructor Supatra Johnson connects the dots from southeast Asian farmers to you

Living in America

Meet the neighbors

True Thai Story

A decade in the making, an Asian gem that's neither dumbed down nor sugared up

Great Noodles, Hold the Poetry

A decade in the making, an Asian gem that's neither dumbed down nor sugared up

Baht of Course!

A decade in the making, an Asian gem that's neither dumbed down nor sugared up

Spice of Life

A decade in the making, an Asian gem that's neither dumbed down nor sugared up

Welcome To The Jungle

A decade in the making, an Asian gem that's neither dumbed down nor sugared up