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Brats and More at Butcher and the Boar
Total brats. In the Twin Cities for a whirlwind couple of days, I found myself at Butcher and the Boar in Minneapolis. As a James Beard Semi-Finalist last year, I was expecting some good things. After...
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A Punny Situation The Wurst Bar
In a blue state of mind. When I visited a couple of friends in Ypsilanti, Michigan, they recommend we head to The Wurst Bar, which is a pun-filled name only made better by the fact that this is right...
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A Wicked Good Brunch at Wicked Spoon
Too many good things for one plate. I don’t know about other people, but when I tell someone I just went to Las Vegas, the first question is “Where did you stay?” The next question, though, is “Which...
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Straight Outta Compton at Bludso’s
Hot stuff. Bludso’s in Compton is very often hailed as the best BBQ in LA. Yet, for some reason, a number of people find it difficult to make it to that part of town. Thus, Bludso’s spun off into...
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A Torta at Tortugas
That’s some cheese porn. Torta is Mexican for sandwich and there is a sweet semi-new spot in Pasadena that deals pretty much exclusively in that hand food from south of the border. It’s called...
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Plattered Up at Zeke’s Smokehouse
All the things, please. What is Montrose? For the first 6+ years I lived in LA I probably would have answered that it is some sort of mythical creature composed of combining a mongoose with an...
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Exotic Tube Meats at Biker Jim’s Gourmet Sausages
Fried mac, sausage, can’t lose. Could there be a more inviting name for a sausage spot than Bike Jim’s Gourmet Dogs? You’d be hard-pressed to find one, but that only partly explains the rise of this...
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Street Food Spotlight: Taiwanese Sausage
So full and thick. I often find it amazing how universal sausage is. It seems like every culture has its own version of tube meat, like all humans have some sort of collective conscience that led us to...
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Tunneling to Legs Inn
Where? As you drive through the Tunnel of Trees in Northern Michigan, you get the feeling that it could go on forever, that there could literally be no end to the trees. And most likely that was...
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Minnesota State Fair 2018
Yes, please. State Fairs are often an afterthought. A relic of times past when most of us lived in rural areas and guessing the weight of a pumpkin was the best entertainment of the month. They offer...
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