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There's a certain expectation that comes with food at a bowling alley. But Pinstripes in Edina isn't that at all. Chef Nelson Pinos runs an all-scratch kitchen. They even make the pasta in house. "We're not [just] a bowling alley, you know," Pinos said.
Many of us over the next week will have backyard parties or picnics to celebrate the 4th of July. And while dining outside tends to be a bit more casual, how would you feel about serving boxed wine? For DeRusha Eats, Jason DeRusha is giving you show how boxed win has changed for the better!
For many of us in the Midwest lobster is a fancy, special occasion food. But that has changed in the Twin Cities, thanks to one food truck that's become one hot restaurant. This morning Jason DeRusha Eats in the busiest neighborhood for food, at one of the busiest restaurants: Smack Shack.
Old Country Buffet was in bad shape. Stores were closing, and the company was filing for bankruptcy. Then came new CEO Anthony Wedo. "We haven't done a facelift even for 30 years in this business," Wedo said. "If you wore the same clothes you wore 30 years ago, you'd be in trouble, right? I mean, you'd stand out in the wrong way."
They'll forgive you if you carry a stack of letters into The Postmark Grille in Hudson, Wis. "They love how we kept a lot of the characteristics of the building," said manager Erica Schletty.
Mark Reese of B-52 Burgers and Brew knew he made a great burger. But competing against The Nook, MyBurger and The Gold Nugget? "It was very intimidating," Reese said. But a panel of chefs and food critics judged the B-52 burger as the best in the Twin Cities Burger Battle.
It looks like every other grocery store from the outside. But for nearly 40 years, Valley Natural Foods has been doing things differently inside. Kirsten Shabaz is the co-op's "Fresh Food Educator." "You wouldn't be able to walk into a big-box store and find dandelion greens or even ramps probably for that matter," Shabaz said.
At Steven Brown's award-winning Tilia in south Minneapolis, you won't find mac and cheese on the "Cootie Catcher" kids' menu. The shrimp fried rice is good, real, scratch cooking. But Brown's making good kids' food inside and out of his restaurant.
You might not expect Executive Chef Brad Berg to be searing scallops at Pittsburgh Blue. "I guess sometimes I'm surprised we do sell a lot of seafood here," Berg said.
Inside a non-descript industrial building in Mankato, a snack that's thousands of years old is getting a new look. Angie and Dan Bastian started popping kettle corn as a couple in 2001. "It's amazing when you think about we started all of this by hand, we popped by hand, we bagged by hand, we did everything by hand," Angie said.
It was nearly ten years ago when Chef Jonathan Hunt opened an Italian restaurant in the Nokomis neighborhood of Minneapolis. The city has changed. "There's definitely a lot more restaurants and I think that [the] diner has changed as well," Hunt said. "We've been able to educate."
Inside a St. Paul commercial kitchen, two friends are forming more than just loaves of bread. Micah Taylor is a web designer, and Nate Houge is a songwriter. Together, they form Brake Bread. "Bread is all about, like, time and tension and finding out the balance between them," Houge said.
If the first thing you think of when you hear "Swedish chef" is the Muppets character, then maybe you need to start thinking of Paul Berglund. He has a picture of his felt counterpart in the kitchen of the Bachelor Farmer, the red-hot North Loop Minneapolis restaurant. "A liver pate is one of my favorite things," Berglund said.
The fire burns 750-degrees hot at Pizza Nea in northeast Minneapolis. But owner Mike Sherwood's carefully-crafted dough is really what makes his pizza special. "I probably went through 150 pounds of flour before we got the crust the way I wanted it to be," Sherwood said.
With names like "Naked Blues," "Sweet Potato" and "Simply Sriracha," the chips of Way Better Snacks are way different from anything you've tried before. Jim Breen graduated high school and college in the Twin Cities, worked on the East Coast for food companies and is now growing his own food brand in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis.
A Twin Cities family's burger chain is ready to really get cooking. My Burger started in the Minneapolis skyways almost ten years ago. Now there are three locations, with plans for even more. John Abdo, president of My Burger, says Americans have had a love affair with the hamburger for more than 100 years. "Everybody remembers burgers and fries as a kid," Abdo said. "When you're eating, it always harkens back to … backyard grilling."
When you hear the sound of slot machines, you can't help but look to see the buffet. It's almost Pavlovian. Executive Chef Richard Fisher says Mystic Lake has been planning a remake of their Casino's buffet. "We have new pans, all small format," Fisher said. "We actually have people in the food and beverage business from Vegas come out look at our buffet."
Diane Yang may be small in stature, but she's a big force in La Belle Vie's kitchen. "This is my corner of the kitchen. It's nice because we have the window," Yang said. "We're the only place in the kitchen that has a window, so it keeps us sane." As executive pastry chef of the top restaurant in the Twin Cities, Yang and her team are setting the standard for desserts.
No one's ever thought of eating at the airport as being anything other than fast and expensive. That is changing at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, especially in Concourse G, where Delta Air Lines hired a company to completely re-do all of the restaurants.
The jukebox in the corner of Wally's Roast Beef is loaded with oldies, including the 1969 classic, "The Beat Goes On" by Sonny and Cher. It's appropriate, since Wally's first started serving their legendary roast beef in Bloomington in 1969.
The Super Bowl is unquestionably the biggest weekend of the year for chicken wings. This week in DeRusha Eats, we want you to meet a local chef who's turned the humble wing into a culinary piece of art. Tucked away near 3M in Maplewood, D-Spot offers some of the best wings in town.
When Francine Weber opened Milton's Vittles, Vino and Beer in suburban Crystal, Minn., she thought she'd open a fast casual soul food spot. Somehow the space she found and the response from the community changed things.
Throughout the month of February, DeRusha Eats is taking it to the suburbs. This week in DeRusha Eats, we take you to a Minnetonka restaurant to check out the signature dishes of the Gold Nugget.
This week, DeRusha Eats is heading to the east Twin Cities metro to find a popular restaurant that stands out from its typical strip mall setting. Jason DeRusha heads to Woodbury to check out Cravings Restaurant and Wine Bar.
This week in DeRusha Eats, Jason cooks at Chefs Night off at Kitchen in the Market. Every month in Minneapolis, a cooking school gives you the tips to help you cook like a pro.
Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has received a one-game suspension due to the number of flagrant fouls he has accumulated this season.
Tuesday will be a mild January day, with highs near 40 in the Twin Cities.
With Eric Ramsay gone, on Monday the Minnesota United announced they have promoted former assistant Cameron Knowles to be their new head coach. It coincided with the first day of training camp.
ICE is making arrests in Minnesota right next to shoppers grabbing groceries. The tense encounters are happening at places like Target, Walmart and other private businesses.
Jesper Bratt and Ondrej Palat each scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2 to snap a four-game skid.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office has received a "substantial" number of submissions to the evidence portal her office launched last week after the FBI took over sole authority of the investigation into the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
With all the ICE activity happening in Minnesota, people are asking: Where are federal agents taking the people they detain? WCCO Investigates is digging in to share who's working with ICE and what we've learned.
"If you can't properly differentiate between a U.S. citizen and a foreign national, you need to be in a different position," Eric O'Denius said.
The UDA College Nationals, dubbed "the Super Bowl of dance," is this weekend in Orlando. And for the second year in a row, WCCO has exclusive coverage of the competition, which features the University of Minnesota's dance team.
Plaintiffs' attorneys are asking a federal judge to intervene after three Democratic members of Congress were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota over the weekend.
With all the ICE activity happening in Minnesota, people are asking: Where are federal agents taking the people they detain? WCCO Investigates is digging in to share who's working with ICE and what we've learned.
The sound of whistles and shouting drew attention to a mall at Third Street and 33rd Avenue in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Monday.
Best of the Best showcase brings together college and high school dance teams from Minnesota and neighboring states to celebrate the sport, but also debut routines ready for UDA College Nationals in Orlando, Florida.
Minnesota's relatively mild run of weather will be briefly interrupted by some snow showers, gusty winds and frigid wind chills over the weekend.
Police in Moorhead, Minnesota, are asking for the public's help to find 17-year-old Neeshka Lafromboise, who has been missing since Monday.
A Wisconsin man accused of sending the state Supreme Court's chief justice intimidating emails has been sentenced to probation.
Some schools in Minnesota and Wisconsin are delayed or closed on Tuesday as early morning rain makes the roads slick.
A western Wisconsin town is reveling in the national spotlight.
When he's not playing zone or man, Hall is carving it up at local hills. He has qualified for multiple professional snowboard competitions.
Two people were killed and another hurt in a crash in western Wisconsin Tuesday afternoon.
Many people who serve in the U.S. military find it hard to ask for assistance when they've been trained to help and serve others.
Food Bank Eatery in North Minneapolis provides free meals for children, who may have little to eat after the pause of SNAP benefits for many in the community.
Firefighters are continuing a 44-year tradition that happens every year north of the Twin Cities.
It was a scary moment in the Twin Cities over the weekend, as a trailer hauling sled dogs turned over on Interstate 494 in Minnetonka.
On Sunday, members of Minnesota's Somali community spoke out against President Trump's social media post calling for an end to temporary protected status.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is making arrests in Minnesota right next to shoppers grabbing groceries. Tense encounters are happening at private businesses. That has some people wondering what authority ICE agents have at places of business. WCCO Jeff Wagner gets answers from an immigration lawyer.
A legal battle has begun to try to force out federal agents out of Minnesota. The state, Minneapolis and St. Paul are working together to sue the Trump Administration. The next step could happen as soon as tomorrow. Minnesota is not the first state to fight back against federal enforcement. WCCO's Ashley Grams talked to an expert to find out whether this suit stands a chance.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office has received a "substantial" number of submissions to the evidence portal her office launched last week after the FBI took over sole authority of the investigation into the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
On Monday afternoon, WCCO's Esme Murphy sat down with Bovino to discuss the ICE crackdown, the widespread backlash and what the future holds in the Twin Cities and beyond. Here is their full conversation.
With all the ICE activity happening in Minnesota, people are asking: Where are federal agents taking the people they detain? WCCO Investigates is digging in to share who's working with ICE and what we've learned.
It's a business model picking up steam across the Twin Cities. For instance, all the major sports venues in town, like Target Field and U.S. Bank Stadium, no longer accept cash.
WCCO gathered data on core staple items from Aldi in Apple Valley, Target in Fridley and Cub Foods in north Minneapolis.
Minnesota drivers have something to celebrate this holiday — a price drop at the pump.
With costs still high and budgets stretched, getting smarter with money matters more than ever.
There were 584 vehicles towed during this week's snow emergency in Minneapolis. That number stands at 352 and counting in St. Paul, where parking restrictions are in place until 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 2.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office has received a "substantial" number of submissions to the evidence portal her office launched last week after the FBI took over sole authority of the investigation into the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
On Monday afternoon, WCCO's Esme Murphy sat down with Bovino to discuss the ICE crackdown, the widespread backlash and what the future holds in the Twin Cities and beyond. Here is their full conversation.
With all the ICE activity happening in Minnesota, people are asking: Where are federal agents taking the people they detain? WCCO Investigates is digging in to share who's working with ICE and what we've learned.
A large crowd gathered outside the Richfield Target over the weekend, just days after ICE agents took two employees into custody, as community members implore the corporation to speak out about what's happening in the Twin Cities.
The St. Anthony Police Department says officers were called to Equinox Apartments just after 5 a.m. for a reported stabbing.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development says it began distributing payments on Friday to over 2,600 Minnesotans.
Just one day after dropping his bid for reelection, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the state's paid family leave program is one of the most transformational bills the state has ever passed.
Roughly 12,000 Minnesotans have already applied for the state's new paid family leave program, according to an update by the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
It's a beauty technique that's exploding. Depending on your age, you might not have heard of it. It's called micro-needling.
The clock is ticking to snag a few more gifts and prepare for that holiday trip to visit family. As the pressure builds, so does the stress.
Here is everything you need to know about how to watch and stream the 2026 Golden Globes.
Bob Weir wrote or co-wrote and sang lead vocals on Grateful Dead classics including "Sugar Magnolia," "One More Saturday Night" and "Mexicali Blues."
Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.
Isiah Whitlock Jr. is perhaps best known for his role as state Sen. R. Clayton "Clay" Davis on HBO's "The Wire."
The band announced Perry Bamonte's death on their official website on Friday.
Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has received a one-game suspension due to the number of flagrant fouls he has accumulated this season.
With Eric Ramsay gone, on Monday the Minnesota United announced they have promoted former assistant Cameron Knowles to be their new head coach. It coincided with the first day of training camp.
Jesper Bratt and Ondrej Palat each scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2 to snap a four-game skid.
The UDA College Nationals, dubbed "the Super Bowl of dance," is this weekend in Orlando. And for the second year in a row, WCCO has exclusive coverage of the competition, which features the University of Minnesota's dance team.
Best of the Best showcase brings together college and high school dance teams from Minnesota and neighboring states to celebrate the sport, but also debut routines ready for UDA College Nationals in Orlando, Florida.
The shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE agent has raised several legal questions.
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent has raised many legal questions. Constitutional law professor David Schultz, who has taught a class on police, criminal and civil procedure, has some answers.
The DFL race pits two prominent party leaders, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Rep. Angie Craig, against each other.
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is calling for answers about the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. She is also denouncing the president's attacks on the Somali community and herself. In Talking Points, Esme Murphy shows us how, for Omar, this is a familiar position to be in.
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is calling for clarity about the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.
On Dec. 9, 1965, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" debuted on CBS, and it became an instant classic. Lee Jenkins' home is proof that the show is still a hit six decades later.
Holiday lights are on full display across the state right now, and just south of the Twin Cities you'll find a Christmas light show that's been around for more than half a century.
The story begins years ago when the city acquired one of the T-38 Talon Thunderbird jets from the Air Force.
The holidays are upon us, and in the town of Kellogg, Minnesota, you'll find a toy store unlike any other.
With the holidays fast approaching, and lutefisk on the menu for many families, one Minnesota town has the distinction of being called the "Lutefisk Capital of the Country."
ICE is making arrests in Minnesota right next to shoppers grabbing groceries. The tense encounters are happening at places like Target, Walmart and other private businesses.
It's a question many people have been asking: What is the cost of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota? WCCO was able to get some numbers.
It's a business model picking up steam across the Twin Cities. For instance, all the major sports venues in town, like Target Field and U.S. Bank Stadium, no longer accept cash.
From the frozen ponds and lakes to the packed indoor rinks serving as community hubs, hockey is uniquely celebrated and cherished in Minnesota like no other state in the country.
Have you ever wondered how the actors memorize so many lines? A neurologist says everyone could strengthen their memories by taking cues from actors.
Minnesotans got a great view of the northern lights Tuesday night.
A look at the newest addition to the polar bear population at St. Paul, Minnesota's Como Zoo.
From food shelves to school programs, our team is proud to serve where it matters most.
The Minnesota State Fair has unveiled its new food, drinks and vendors for 2025.
A suspect was taken into custody after an attack on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on June 1 in which there were 15 people and a dog who were victims. The suspect threw Molotov cocktails that burned some of the victims, who were part of a march for Israeli hostages.
Tuesday will be a mild January day, with highs near 40 in the Twin Cities.
In Minnesota, weather can be all over the place. Here at WCCO, we want to give you what you need to prepare for what's happening next.
Tuesday will be a mild January day, with highs near 40 in the Twin Cities.
Tuesday will be a mild January day with highs near 40.
NEXT Weather Meteorologist Chris Shaffer says northeast Minnesota could see freezing rain or light snow early on Tuesday. Temperatures in the Twin Cities will hit 40 degrees by the afternoon.
Tuesday will be a mild January day, with highs near 40 in the Twin Cities.
Minnesota's attorney general and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul filed a federal lawsuit to try to get ICE activity halted, plus more of the day’s top stories.
Tuesday will be a mild January day with highs near 40.
The Minnesota United announced they promoted former assistant Cameron Knowles to be their new head coach on Monday, coinciding with the first day of training camp. The announcement comes a day after the departure of Eric Ramsay. Ren Clayton reports.
NEXT Weather Meteorologist Chris Shaffer says northeast Minnesota could see freezing rain or light snow early on Tuesday. Temperatures in the Twin Cities will hit 40 degrees by the afternoon.