DeRusha Eats: Double Take Salsa
If you asked Bernie Dahlin five years ago if he thought he'd be devoting his work life to salsa, he'd say you were crazy.
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If you asked Bernie Dahlin five years ago if he thought he'd be devoting his work life to salsa, he'd say you were crazy.
When you think great barbecue, you might think Texas or Kansas City. But chef Louis Hanson wants you to think: Duluth, Minnesota.
St. Paul Bagelry provides bagels for the company's own locations, as well as wholesale bagels to co-ops and grocery stores all over the Twin Cities and outstate.
Lord Fletcher's Old Lake Lodge provides a party outside on the wharf, elegant finer dining upstairs, and something in between in the middle.
When you've been making iconic candy for more than 100 years, it can be hard to innovate. There are only so many things you can do to a Nut Roll, or a Mint Patty. So Pearson's decided to launch a new product line. And it's delicious.
The Minnesota Zoo is adding a taste of the Australian Outback in a brand new exhibit, and also in their concessions operations.
It is Minnesota's mushroom: prized by hunters who go to great ends to protect their secret spots. Morel hunting is an annual tradition not just by home cooks, but by some restaurant chefs too.
It is the epitome of elegance, down to the doorman wearing a top hat and tails. The St. Paul Grill has been the place in the heart of Minnesota's capitol city since 1990.
When Fred and Stacy Navarro opened George and The Dragon in 2012 the space was empty and new, their son was just five and they weren't sure if anyone would show up.
It was a unique challenge: A beautiful St. Paul building, right on the river, but in danger of flooding. For decades, it remained empty. That is, until a hometown restaurant guy had a clever idea.
One of the Twin Cities most celebrated chefs, who once owned his own 4-star fine-dining restaurant, is now running a restaurant that's attached to a hotel in south suburban Bloomington.
Fermentation is the process that turns fruit into wine, grain into beer, and flour into sourdough bread.
Erin Rolek is the first sommelier from Minnesota ever named to that list.
When he's not at his day job at the Motorwerks BMW shop, Tony Stoy is probably in a St. Paul commercial kitchen, tinkering with his latest flavor of Isabel Street Heat hot sauce.
Caribou Coffee is cleaning up its drink menu. The company is banning a laundry list of artificial colors, dyes, preservatives and other ingredients, such as high-fructose corn syrup and MSG, from entering the its cups.
The setting: the lower level of a luxury mall in Edina, Minnesota. The plot: a struggle for survival. The characters: a bookstore in a world where half-off bestsellers are easy to buy online, and a sit-down restaurant: when many of us are eating on the run.
The road to Minnesota Pure and Clear ice starts 30 miles south of Minneapolis in a building that sure doesn't scream artisanal.
Standing at the corner of 9th Street and Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, only a minor change to the awnings hint the major change inside. Zelo looks new.
Beautiful to eat, and gorgeous to look at, this bread is a combination of art and science.
As an agriculture student at the University of Minnesota, Ian Silver-Ramp dreamed of starting a facility like Mississippi Mushrooms -- local, high-tech, eco-friendly. He had no idea it would become such a favorite of Twin Cities chefs.
When it comes to success at the top of the restaurant world, three Minneapolis chefs want you to know that a women's place is in the kitchen.
From the music to the bottles, one step inside St. Genevieve and you know you're about to be taken far from home.
There is something about breakfast, a freshly cracked egg – a fluffy pancake, thick-cut slice of bacon – which sets the table for the day.
It is a deceptively simple menu with just ten items, but what John Sugimura and Xiaotung Huang are doing with their Minneapolis restaurant PinKU Japanese Street Food is far from simple.
It's become an empire: a more than $10 million expansion in 2013 created more than 1,000 seats inside.
