Scusi set to open in two weeks
The Blue Plate Restaurant Company is about to give an amazing gift to the residents of Mac-Grove in St. Paul (where I also happen to live). Sucsi, the new Italy meets Chicago meets Sicily meets San...
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Wine Bars: Surdyk’s Flights in MSP
I had been trying to get to Surdyk’s Flights, the new wine bar, deli, and wine shop inside Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport, for months. I’d flown out of town about five times in the previous...
View ArticleAn incredible wine bar … in Rapid City, South Dakota!
Here’s a story about finding a nearly perfect wine bar in the most unexpected of places. If a wine bar like this opened in the Twin Cities, it would be packed every night, guaranteed. Last August and...
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Spoon and Stable: The Prog Rock of Wine Lists
Let’s start with Steve Hackett. Who? I doubt if many of you know who he is (and if you do, we should be friends). Steve Hackett is a guitar virtuoso. He’s a musical philosopher. Inventor of the...
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Finally, a west-coast style wine bar for MSP: Troubadour on Hennepin Avenue
Wine lovers rejoice! After the elimination of the stupid 70/30 law in Minneapolis, the doors have now been opened to having a wine scene more akin to that of Portland, L.A., Seattle, or San Francisco....
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What the closing of La Belle Vie means to MSP wine lovers
Sad day. Very sad. The closing of La Belle Vie came out to the blue. Maybe people on the insider track knew it was coming, but a casual post by a friend on Facebook tipped me off to the news....
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Bar Brigade in St. Paul is the perfect neighborhood restaurant
There was a time about ten years ago that we rented a house in a little French villages called Pelissanne, located near Salon-de-Provence and the Southern Rhône Valley. Pelissanne is a perfect little...
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The final night of Toast Wine Bar
On the morning of Tuesday May 30th we got a phone call from the management of Toast Wine Bar that they would be closing after service that evening. I asked if I could announce it to the Twin Cities...
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