Ben Pratt shares tales of food and family. Ever wonder what chefs at your favorite restaurants cook at home for the holidays? Ben Pratt, chef at the...
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Local Wine Expert Shares Perfect Pairings
Cindy Cotroneo Fix, co-owner of Cotroneo’s along with her husband Guy, knows wine. Here are a few of her favorite pairings. Dolcetto means “little...
Valerie’s Asian Cuisine Offers a New Take on Take-out
Valerie Thao brings fresh Asian cuisine to Willernie. Looking for a perfect dessert to chase your take-out? Pop in to 106 Wildwood Road in Willernie...
Entertain Your Friends and Expand Your Palate with an In-home Wine Tasting
An in-home wine tasting makes for a great party. The vocabulary used to describe wine can be as evocative as poetry—references to “notes” aromas,...
Try This Irish Coffee Recipe This St. Patrick’s Day
I had never tasted an Irish coffee until a business trip to Napa Valley, We were meeting other people who were there from different parts of the...
Order a Retro Root Beer Float or the ‘Best Ever’ Carrot Cake at the 4 Seasons
Need a little something sweet to go with that takeout? The 4 Seasons is within easy walking distance of Valerie’s Asian Cuisine, and it’s a...
These Twin Cities Chefs and Restaurants Are 2019 James Beard Award Semifinalists
The James Beard Awards are among the most prestigious prizes for chefs and restaurants in the United States. It’s common for a few Twin Cities names...
Taste of the Quad Cities
QC Pizza brings unique taste to Mahtomedi. Search “Quad City–style pizza” on Wikipedia, and 28 results will come up. There were 27—and not a single...
Urban Forage Winery & Cider House’s Unique Offerings Will Warm You Up This Winter
Pick up some of Urban Forage’s cider at Elevated. Among all the eminently drinkable goods at Elevated, there’s one that’s unique. Urban Forage...
Michael Twitty Serves Up Food History Lesson at Fort Snelling
Resident Kevin Maijala brings food historian Michael Twitty to Fort Snelling. Behind an exciting exhibit that took place this past July at Historic...
From Mahtomedi to Morocco, Family Gets Creative in the Kitchen
The Wolfson family cooks up American standards and Moroccan stew. Mahtomedi resident Lee Wolfson is a retired architect turned enthusiastic home...
The Battleground Café Is Not Your Typical Coffee Spot
The Battleground Café in Vadnais Heights offers café goodies and welcomes gamers to convene, play games and just have a good time. A cafe that not...
Drinks: Perfect Fall Flavors Courtesy of Elevated Beer, Wine & Spirits
Tom Boland of Elevated Beer, Wine & Spirits offers drink recommendations for fall. Fall isn’t simply a change in the weather. It brings a...
French-trained Personal Chef Greg Knothe Shares Favorite Recipes and Cooking Tips
Greg Knothe hasn’t always been a French-trained chef, but he’s always enjoyed making good food. In 2004, after working as a machinist for many...
Big Wood Brewery Offers a Tour of Their Space with the Folks Who Brew the Beer
Big Wood Brewery invites all intrigued by beer and the brewing process to tour their space with one of their brew-masters on the first Friday of the...
Black Sea Restaurant Offers Authentic Turkish Food in White Bear Lake
Step in to Black Sea restaurant any day at lunch or dinner time, and you’ll see tables packed with happy diners. The first Turkish restaurant to...
Sam Supunniam of Sam’s Thai Cuisine Shares Some of His Flavor secrets
When he first opened his restaurant 17 years ago, Sam Supunniam featured Chinese food rather than food from his native Thailand. “People weren’t...
Eco-learning Legacy Creator Spreads Awareness for Eco-intelligent Eating
“Eco-intelligent eating” isn’t a term as mainstream as vegetarian or even vegan, but removing chemicals from your diet and reducing your own...
Belly Up to the Burger Bar
Father-son duo Len and Ben Pratt launched their second White Bear Lake restaurant concept this past spring. It’s hard to ignore the crowd on Fourth...
Happy in a Cup or Cone
Hot summer days mean it’s time for ice cream. “It’s always been in the family.”—This is probably true for many more people than just Rick Johnstone,...
