For people I know who are closer to it than I am: 1183 Selby Ave St Paul, MN 55104 No tag for this post.

It looks like King Kong devastating a nice area rug, but tastes much better than that sounds. – Dara Moskowitz describing a dish at Los Ocampos at the Midtown Global Market Tags: dining, lunch

The East Lake St upswing continues it’s stratospheric ascent with this news in the Strib that the owner of Azia (and a few other noteworthy local restaurants) is putting in two new restaurants in the area. The former Ember’s/House of Lalibela/Molly Quin’s Irish Pub at 33rd and Lake is going to be a pan-asian place, [...]

In the last two weeks I’ve run into something a little different at two places that I’ve been for dinner. It appears that both the new Chatterbox Pub location in Highland Park and Signature Cafe in Prospect Park are serving sodas from The Shamrock Group. So far, the cola and the root beer flavors that [...]

Just in case any body else is keeping track, but the Twin Cities has reached critical mass as far as high end ice cream shops go. The latest to open is PumpHouse Creamery, which I’m thinking I might try and drop by tomorrow afternoon to give a try. One of the reasons is that I’m [...]

Dara’s new column has a bit of a zinger about the possible new Hooter’s in Block E: “Yes, there may be hope for downtown. True, non-inebriated mainstays like Chez Bananas and the New French might have left, and Hooters might be fast on its way in the coming Block E development–oh no! I feel a [...]

After a half month hiatus, Dara Moskowitz’s weekly restaurant musings are back. Just what I needed, yet another place to add to my growing list of places to try. Tags: restaurant