Zen Box Izakaya in downtown Minneapolis to close
Zen Box Izakaya, a Japanese restaurant that's served food in downtown Minneapolis for over 20 years, is set to close.
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Zen Box Izakaya, a Japanese restaurant that's served food in downtown Minneapolis for over 20 years, is set to close.
A St. Paul restaurant has a tradition of home-style Italian cooking that goes two generations and fifty years. This mid-morning DeRusha Eats on University Avenue at Caffe Biaggio. WCCO Mid-Morning – July 25, 2019
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It's hosted a president, vice president and first lady. Now one of Minnesota's most awarded and critically acclaimed restaurants has decided to permanently close.
Holy Land is far more than just the restaurant: It's a one-of-a-kind butcher shop and grocery store, bringing Middle Eastern flavors to the Midwest. It's also a production facility, where every day they turn 2,500 pounds of dry chickpeas into the now legendary Holy Land Hummus.
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The deli roast beef isn't from a package, it's eye of round, sliced in the school cafeteria. Pizzas aren't frozen either, the kitchen hand-makes sauce and rolls out dough for 300 pizzas a day.
On an early Tuesday morning, the only real sound in Rockford High School's cafeteria is the sizzle of a large pan loaded with vegetables. Chef Harlan Adelman is preparing mirepoix for soup and sandwich day.
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They are the busiest restaurants in the southern Twin Cities suburbs -- 10 Prior Lake–Savage schools serve around 4,500 lunches every day.
It is hard to overstate how big a risk it was in 2010 to open a chef-driven restaurant, focused on local sustainable produce and proteins, in a strip mall in the southern suburbs of St. Paul.
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Michelle Courtright's dream is as atypical as her path to becoming a Minneapolis restaurant owner.
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