Why all the taste-making top-tier kitchens in the Twin Cities are suddenly awash in plastic bags

Stewart Woodman's long-awaited solo venture is stylish, costly, and absolutely unique

Dear Dara confronts the French-fry issue

Fugaise has sky-high ambitions and the kitchen skills to match

Fine-dining northern lights open affordable annexes

City dwellers can finally taste a non-European version of Minnesota while positively affecting life on the rez

The real bargain sushi in Minnesota isn't in grocery stores; it's hiding in plain sight

Now run by cooks, Bakery on Grand has emerged as one of the nicest restaurants on the south side

New Lowertown restaurant caters to everyone and no one--in the same place

If 40 distributors each work with between 30 and 200 chateaus, bodegas, collectives, estates, wineries, or what have you--how many separate bottlings are available in Minnesota?

Minneapolis is a-changin', and the restaurant scene will never be the same

20.21, the Walker's hotly anticipated Wolfgang Puck restaurant, is very good in many ways, but not great

A South Minneapolis newcomer with lots of haute cuisine skill and not one drop of attitude

Your clip-and-save guide to the best specialty butchers in the metro

The only place you'll find Schumacher's famous Czech-German cuisine today is twixt the mighty Midway and Ye Old Mill

Stella's Fish Café turns a notoriously popular location into fishy, family-friendly gold

An Italian deli in Eagan makes subs fit for a Jersey cop

Live long and prosper

A trifecta of impending restaurant openings, and one departure

Tum Rup has one thing a neighborhood really needs: Good food at reasonable prices for the people who live there

Liberty Frozen Custard offers a chance to stop and smell the roses, child-style

With two fancy new brunches, you can finally prove to your mom that you really do have a job

Twin Cities bagels, revealed, celebrated, or mocked mercilessly, depending on which paragraph you read

Car-seat country scores a family-friendly wine bar with a serious education mission

What a difference a chef makes: Marianne Miller, newly established at Bobino, turns an old reliable into a new joy

Kobe Beef--the legend, the steak--Hits Minnesota, and Dear Dara dives in

Controversial documentary 'Mondovino' just might drive you to drink

The most extravagant cookies in the Twin Cities revealed, devoured

Taste-testing the best real dry-aged steaks for sale locally reveals a lucky, lucky, steaky, steaky metropolitan area

A terrific bar lurks within East Lake Street's newest fine-dining restaurant

Party your way to an unshakable understanding of what "dry" wine really is

Homegrown shortbread and scone baker Amy Goetz makes her mark with sugar, spice, and everything nice

The metro area's three greatest takeout chickens are revealed

Light- or dark-roast? Far more intriguing choices--like booze!--await at a new generation of coffeehouses.

With nothing in common but uncommonly good food, two far-flung wonders are revealed

Downtown Minneapolis's new 112 Eatery conquers, serves the Holy Grail: Cozy, cheap, charming fine dining till 1:00 a.m.

Two new restaurants reinvigorate what was a seriously depressing local Indian food scene

South Minneapolis's newest bakery inspires, with crust

Likable new Tryg's redefines comfort food--and brunch!--for the west metro

Legacy Chocolates, the newest of the St. Paul chocolatiers, proposes that great taste can heal us all

Three of the best lunch options in the Minneapolis skyways prove you can get restaurant quality on the run

Southern Italian food goes over gangbusters in Southern Minneapolis

Sweet compliments all around, except for one big spoonful of medicine to make the sugar go down

If you read this list and subsequently eat your newspaper and/or hat, don't come crying to me