2023-01-16 13:00
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRENDA JOHNSON / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the Churn newsletter, one of three published by the Heavy Table on Fridays via Patreon. Back us on Patreon to ge… Read More
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2023-01-09 17:12
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNMARIE GENIUSZ This story was originally published in the Tap newsletter, available to our backers on Patreon. Hundreds of hooves simultaneously pounding the ground. A… Read More
2023-01-09 14:00
The pita baking process at Mara in downtown Minneapolis is half ballet, half factory floor Read More
2023-01-03 20:22
Prima in Minneapolis may feel like a culinary time capsule from 1999, but its Italian food hits a great many warm, delicious notes Read More
2022-12-12 17:00
A collection of food experiences in Minneapolis-St. Paul including omakase, high tea, omakase dining, and more Read More
2022-12-12 13:00
This story originally appeared in our subscriber-only newsletter, available by backing the Heavy Table on Patreon. From festive food to servingware to local treats and intoxicating (or sobri… Read More
2022-12-05 17:40
The following two reviews are from the third installment of our Lyndale Avenue Checklist, an 18-mile trek through more than 70 independent restaurants on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, Bloom… Read More
2022-11-21 13:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY / ILLUSTRATIONS BY WACSO The following review comes from the November 18, 2022 edition of the Heavy Table newsletter via Patreon. It ran alongside four other revi… Read More
2022-11-16 17:14
Amy Rea reviews Bernie's, the new East Grand Forks, Minnesota restaurant from author and Food Network host Molly Yeh Read More
2022-11-08 18:27
"At Home," the debut cookbook by Minnesota chef Gavin Kaysen, is a clearly conceived and elegant manual for the serious home cook Read More
2022-11-02 16:17
Ask a brewer about hop aroma and you will receive a passionate explanation of the melon, citrus, pine, orange zest, bubble gum, and other smells that hops can exude. Bring up Phantasm Powder… Read More
2022-10-24 17:33
Heavy Table’s Lyndale Avenue Checklist will include reviews of all 70+ independent restaurants located along Lyndale Avenue’s full 18-mile length. All reviews will be emailed in… Read More
2022-10-20 15:00
Red Table Meat Company, one of Minnesota’s best-regarded makers of charcuterie and a key tenant of Northeast’s Food Building, will call it quits at the end of 2022. We’ve f… Read More
2022-09-28 17:27
So, there’s a theory that you’re probably familiar with, that every time you make a decision – whether to order an extra side of bacon with your omelet, or a dish of Hollan… Read More
2022-09-06 12:00
In the mid-00s, I dined at the restaurant on the 16th floor of Duluth’s Radisson Hotel with my boyfriend at the time. Back then the restaurant was called the Top of the Harbor, a… Read More
2022-08-29 12:00
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY AND BRENDA JOHNSON / HEAVY TABLE The following is a sneak peak from last Friday’s newsletter content from the Heavy Table’s Churn newsletter. To subscribe… Read More
2022-08-26 12:00
PHOTOS BY BRENDA JOHNSON / HEAVY TABLE The following is a sneak peak from this morning’s newsletter content from the Heavy Table’s Churn newsletter. To subscribe, back us on Patr… Read More
2022-08-24 12:00
PHOTOS BY ZOE PRINDS-FLASH, BERIT JOHNSON, AND COURTESY OF COURT BLOM This story originally appeared in the July 22, 2022 edition of The Tap newsletter. To get the newsletters and support th… Read More
2022-08-22 12:00
Some people have a grandpa who can teach them how to fold dumplings, or an auntie who can share the secrets of her incredible kimchi. For the rest of us, there’s Hot Wok Academy… Read More
2022-08-15 12:00
One of the things we men in late middle age miss – one that we will go on about at some length, given the opportunity – are cassette mix-tapes. Most of you aren’t old enoug… Read More
2022-08-05 14:40
In a major development for the North Loop dining scene, the former Bachelor Farmer space will come to life once more. Prodigious restaurateurs Daniel del Prado and Ryan Burnet have bought th… Read More
2022-08-01 12:00
PHOTOS BY AMY REA / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in Heavy Table’s Churn Newsletter on July 15, 2022. Back us on Patreon to receive newsletters packed with original storie… Read More
2022-07-08 15:26
This story was originally published for Heavy Table subscribers in the Tap newsletter on July 8, 2022. Back the Heavy Table on Patreon to subscribe. “I want people to be happy.”… Read More
2022-07-05 12:00
An index of all the content published in the Heavy Table's three food newsletters, published every Friday morning Read More
2022-06-22 12:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the June 10 edition of Heavy Table’s Tap newsletter. Back the Heavy Table on Patreon to subscribe to exclusi… Read More
2022-06-20 12:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARAH MCGEE / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the June 17 edition of Heavy Table’s Churn newsletter. Back the Heavy Table on Patreon to subscribe to exclus… Read More
2022-06-08 13:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARIIM CHARLIER / HEAVY TABLE One look at the menu of the two-month-old Jamaican Caribbean Cuisine in Roseville and I was smitten. Cow’s foot soup? Saltfish and liver fo… Read More
2022-06-01 00:00
PHOTO BY IVY VAINIO I was recently asked to give a talk on “Ojibwe gardening practices” to schoolchildren in the United Kingdom. The request really made me stop and think. My wor… Read More
2022-05-23 12:00
PHOTO BY BRENDA JOHNSON / HEAVY TABLE This story originally appeared in the May 13, 2022 edition of the Heavy Table’s Tap newsletter. Back the Heavy Table on Patreon and get Minnesota… Read More
2022-05-03 15:21
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENDA JOHNSON / HEAVY TABLE With its bright, airy interior and floral mural, Pau Hana is a tropical oasis in the southern suburbs. The sleek design and inviting bar mak… Read More
2022-04-26 14:34
PHOTOS BY KARIIM CHARLIER / HEAVY TABLE A version of this story originally appeared in the Churn newsletter (available by subscription via Patreon) on March 25, 2022. And join us at the Nort… Read More
2022-04-21 15:56
Two bits of bad news hit our inbox late yesterday and early this morning. The first: the six-year-old Longfellow Asian fusion spot Dumpling is calling it quits this weekend. As per their ema… Read More
2022-04-18 12:00
At an event in Minnesota’s recent past, Todd Haug was still the brewing wizard at Surly. While discussing beer, someone in attendance asked why Haug made such bitter, hoppy beers. Haug… Read More
2022-04-13 13:41
The Heavy Table team is thrilled to bring back the Upper Midwestern artisan food sip-and-sample known as The North Coast Nosh. It happens May 1, 2022 at The Food Building in Northeast Minnea… Read More
2022-04-12 17:47
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTORIA CAMPBELL / HEAVY TABLE One of the people at our table at Churchill Street summed up the experience this way: “I didn’t expect a restaurant in Shoreview to… Read More
2022-03-23 17:02
It seems to go without saying: the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro lacks a late-night dining culture. Even 112 Eatery, a wonderful restaurant that we got to know as the place where chefs ate afte… Read More
2022-03-07 13:00
Many years ago – in the late Cretaceous Period – when I was a child, there were the official holidays – Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc… But there were also… Read More
2022-03-01 18:17
The Heavy Table has been publishing stories about the food and drink of the Upper Midwest for nearly 15 years. Our contributors have included prominent chefs, published authors, professional… Read More
2022-03-01 17:46
ORIGINAL PHOTOS BY BRENDA JOHNSON (D-SPOT) AND ELI RADTKE; FILE PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY We’ve all heard the stereotype before: Minnesotans think mayo is spicy. There are plenty of riffs… Read More
2022-01-24 16:05
I was grocery shopping with my teenager. We were at that store – you know the one – with the extra-friendly staff. You know, the almost too-friendly staff? I was frankly shocked… Read More
2022-01-10 14:41
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF UW-PRESS / CHRIS HYNES EXCEPT AUTOR PORTRAIT BY MAUREEN JANSON HEINZ Whenever I want to know what’s going on with food and restaurants in my hometown of Madison… Read More
2021-12-20 13:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTORIA CAMPBELL / HEAVY TABLE When Cafe Racer Kitchen announced last month that they would begin requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test for indoor dining, i… Read More
2021-12-17 15:04
After more than five years of operation, the Northeast Minneapolis Japanese street food restaurant PinKU will be shutting its doors at 20 University Avenue. The restaurant is calling it quit… Read More
2021-12-13 16:40
CRANBERRY QUEEN AND CRANBERRY HARVEST PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY PHOTOGRAPHY During the Siege of Drogheda, Ireland in the summer of 1649, the Royal Governor, Sir Arthur Aston was beaten to death… Read More
2021-12-10 16:18
The first time in my life I received useful information from a random wrong number was a few days ago, when I got a mysterious text. It contained a dim camera phone photo of an intriguing re… Read More
2021-12-06 13:00
Unlike other some other major U.S. cities (New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, etc.), Minneapolis and St. Paul have not required proof of vaccination status for citizens to dine indoors. A… Read More
2021-11-22 13:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE When you step onto the production floor of Milk and Honey Ciders, the aroma of apples drapes itself across you like a weighted blanket. With the pos… Read More
2021-11-01 15:46
It’s a concrete paver, about a foot and a half long and maybe eight inches wide. It’s a couple of inches thick. It’s suspended between two piles of cinder blocks. I’m… Read More
2021-10-18 12:00
ILLUSTRATIONS BY WACSO / HEAVY TABLE Ahead of a high-stakes election, voters at two Minneapolis diners talk about the mayor, the police, and the cost of rent. This story was originally publi… Read More
2021-10-15 16:12
There’s a party going on at your local Culver’s today (if you get there early enough). The chain engaged in that silly form of digital marketing known as putting jokes on social… Read More
2021-10-05 17:27
PHOTOGRAPHS AND CINNAMON WRITE-UPS BY EMMET KOWLER In keeping with the season, Heavy Table is proud to present a husband-vs.-wife curation battle between two of the best fall spices: Emmet K… Read More
2021-09-27 12:00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTORIA CAMPBELL Have you ever sailed right through St. Cloud on your way to Brainerd or Walker or Canada, figuring there’s nothing to eat in this college town other th… Read More
2021-09-22 12:00
There is an Aadizookaan, one of our ancient sacred stories, that tells about how the Anishinaabeg, the Ojibwe people and those tribes related to them, came to the Great Lakes Region. T… Read More
2021-09-20 12:00
This is Elias J. Baldwin. Most people called him “Lucky.” He’s the one we’re going to blame. The truth of the matter is probably nuanced and, as with most social and… Read More
2021-09-13 12:00
Photos by Becca Dilley (except Charito photos, which are James Norton) / Illustrations by WACSO Our efforts to complete this series had been slightly derailed due to a variety of factors&nda&hell…Read More
2021-08-23 22:32
I was a freshman in high school, so this must have been sometime in 1978. I don’t remember the circumstances, or even who else was with me, but somehow, I ended up in the back seat of… Read More
2021-08-19 19:25
Gut-crushingly complete reviews of Minnesota State Fair food are part of Heavy Table’s DNA. When we started writing our culinary rundowns, in 2010, our punishing dedication to Fair foo… Read More
2021-08-17 20:33
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BECCA DILLEY AND VICTORIA CAMPBELL There are many, many, many challenges involved in trying to launch a food hall (or food court, or artisan marketplace, or whatever nomenclat… Read More
2021-08-02 12:00
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY This review originally appeared in the July 16 edition of the Churn newsletter. The newly opened Sanjusan in the North Loop promises guests (through its menu, location… Read More
2021-07-26 19:39
This column is underwritten with generous support from United Noodles, Minnesota’s largest Asian grocery store, awarded “Best International Grocery” by City Page… Read More
2021-07-19 14:00
PHOTOS BY JOHN FLADD From time to time, I write about a cocktail and recommend drinking it on the porch. Or the deck. Or, in extreme cases, sprawled out on the lawn, struggling with ambition… Read More
2021-07-12 12:00
ILLUSTRATIONS BY LORA MARIE HLAVSA Funding for the Heavy Table’s Lake Street Profiles series is provided by a grant from Peace Coffee and the Coffee Creates Community in… Read More
2021-07-09 14:00
To say that Birchwood Cafe is a Minneapolis institution is no exaggeration – the Seward neighborhood stalwart has been in business for a quarter century, and has become synonymous with… Read More
2021-07-05 12:00
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY For 23 years, Star Tribune food writer Rick Nelson has covered food and restaurants for the Star Tribune, serving as the unofficial dean of culinary journalism here in… Read More
2021-06-28 12:00
PHOTOS BY BRENDA JOHNSON The first pleasure that came roaring back as we sat down, indoors, to break our pandemic streak of home-dining, was the anticipation. After fourteen or so months, we… Read More
2021-06-18 14:05
A lot has happened in the discourse surrounding the name and branding of the newly opened Lyn-Lake Justin Sutherland-fronted restaurant Side Chick over the past week. One on side: critics, m… Read More
2021-06-15 19:00
Apparently, Thomas Edison once said, “I haven’t failed; I’ve discovered 10,000 ways that didn’t work.” Supposedly. I mean, if you can’t trust internet mem… Read More
2021-06-08 19:00
“Cocktails” / Oil on canvas / 1926 / Art by Archibald Motley / Public Domain They sit at a table in a private club, laughing, talking, and dazzling each other with their smiles… Read More
2021-06-03 23:35
A national reckoning with sexual harassment and discrimination in the brewing industry is rattling the Minnesota beer scene - potentially for the better Read More
2021-06-01 18:04
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MR. PAUL’S SUPPER CLUB In yet another sign that restaurants and diners are looking forward to a feel-good, post-pandemic boom, Chef Tommy Begnaud (Butcher and the Bo… Read More
2021-06-01 14:36
PHOTOS BY LOUIS LIVINGSTON GARCIA (PORTRAITS) AND BJORN CHRISTIANSON (COCKTAILS) This story originally ran in the Tulip and Schooner newsletter, available to Patreon supporters of Heavy Tabl… Read More
2021-05-19 14:47
PHOTOS BY LOUIS LIVINGSTON-GARCIA / HEAVY TABLE Prairie du Sac and Sauk City, Wisc. are my Twin Cities (twin towns, if you will). The general term for the two close river towns (they blend t… Read More
2021-05-12 12:00
So, a couple of weeks ago, when I should have doing something productive, I fell down a rabbit hole on Pinterest, looking at old sheet music. I don’t know why – I can’t rea… Read More
2021-04-28 12:00
PHOTOS BY VICTORIA CAMPBELL James Raymond puts down his matcha and picks up a pitchfork. He plods out to the middle of the paddock in beige Vessi sneakers, his five wooly cows casting a pecu… Read More
2021-04-26 14:18
PHOTOS BY CHANDRA WALBOLT This column is underwritten with generous support from United Noodles, Minnesota’s largest Asian grocery store, awarded “Best International Grocer… Read More
2021-04-20 14:57
PHOTOS BY JOHN FLADD / HEAVY TABLE I was texting with a friend who lives in Kansas, and she asked what I was up to. I told her that I was developing several cocktails based on the Wizard of… Read More
2021-04-05 13:42
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE / FILE Surly Brewing’s taproom was not the first in Minneapolis, but it came to be the most significant. It’s the one that put Minnesota on t… Read More
2021-03-26 13:30
PHOTO BY WILL CONLEY / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS There wasn’t ever a “Liquor Lyle,” or at least Lyle never seems to have given himself that honorific. “Lyle” &mda&hell…Read More
2021-03-22 20:45
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY There’s a cricket farm in St. Louis Park. We’ll let you wrap your mind around that for a moment. If your first response is a combo of how/why, Claire and C… Read More
2021-03-15 14:30
ILLUSTRATIONS BY LORA MARIE HLAVSA Funding for the Heavy Table’s Lake Street Profiles series is provided by a grant from Peace Coffee and the Coffee Creates Community in… Read More
2021-03-10 21:23
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY / HEAVY TABLE You won’t find any references to Moodie Black on MB Foodhouse’s website, but the ethos of the noise rap group is woven throughout the restaur… Read More
2021-03-08 17:00
The National Public Radio news show All Things Considered recently received a scathing letter from 8-year-old Minneapolis resident Leo Shilda. Leo took the program to task for ignoring the m… Read More
2021-03-01 15:28
Owners of Jakeeno's Pizza, Mama Sheila's, and Pie & Mighty, all proximate to George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, reflect on a year of pandemic and struggle Read More
2021-02-19 16:30
We’ve all been there this past year: You don’t want to cook. You want to “save” your local restaurant. And so you take the path of least resistance: you use a third-p… Read More
2021-02-01 13:00
PHOTOS BY CHANDRA WALBOLT This column is underwritten with generous support from United Noodles, Minnesota’s largest Asian grocery store, awarded “Best International Grocer… Read More
2021-01-25 13:00
A year or so ago, my wife was away on business. My teenager and I were supposed to go somewhere – I don’t remember where. Wherever it was, I had been ready to go there for quite… Read More
2021-01-20 17:20
PHOTOS COURTESY OF AREPA BAR / SCREENSHOT FROM INSTAGRAM There’s no avoiding the fact that Midtown Global Market is facing a challenging time right now, between the pandemic and destru… Read More
2021-01-18 13:00
I don’t often open a story with a disclosure, but here it is: Matt Kenevan used to be my boss. As owner of the Beer Dabbler and publisher of The Growler, he was the guy who signed my c… Read More
2021-01-15 16:02
PHOTO BY BECCA DILLEY Today in the Churn: A new slate of Hot Five deliciousness (including Dong Yang and Mesob), a profile of Jell-O master JoAnne Peters, a review of the new Tipsy Steer on… Read More
2021-01-11 13:00
Illustrations by Lora Marie Hlavsa Funding for the Heavy Table’s Lake Street Profiles series is provided by a grant from Peace Coffee and the Coffee Creates Community in… Read More
2021-01-08 15:02
We’re all over the place (in a good way) with today’s edition of the Tap. First, Eli Radtke tries the carnitas feast from the newly opened Sooki & Mimi, Cecilia Johnson heads… Read More
2021-01-04 15:03
PHOTOS COURTESY OF RUBY COFFEE ROASTERS This story is reprinted from the November 27, 2020 edition of the Heavy Table Tap newsletter. The week before Thanksgiving 2019, I drove 110 miles out… Read More
2020-12-21 13:00
If you’ve been subscribing to our newsletters, you’ve probably noticed that pizza has sucked up a fair bit of ink. And it should: along fried chicken, it’s one of the big p… Read More
2020-12-18 13:36
ILLUSTRATION BY TERRI WENTZKA / PHOTO BY JAMES NORTON Today’s Churn newsletter goes in deep on the question of Wisconsin’s now-infamous cannibal burger (AKA wildcat AKA tiger mea… Read More
2020-12-16 17:30
PHOTOS BY BECCA DILLEY Since 1963, a benign vortex of grease and alcohol in the heart of Dinkytown has marked the center of college nightlife, luring wobbly partiers to its always-aglow Gold… Read More
2020-12-16 13:00
ILLUSTRATED BY TERRI WENTZKA Festive Recipes is a six-part series of home kitchen methods designed to take the edge off of a brutal year. It was conceived by Amy Rea, and illustrated by Terr… Read More
2020-12-14 13:00
ILLUSTRATED BY TERRI WENTZKA Festive Recipes is a six-part series of home kitchen methods designed to take the edge off of a brutal year. It was conceived by Amy Rea, and illustrated by Terr… Read More
2020-12-11 16:19
Today’s edition of the Tap features a couple delicious dives into the world of the potable – seven of the newly available beers of Arbeiter Brewing Company reviewed by Jerard Fag… Read More
2020-12-09 13:00
PHOTOS BY CHANDRA WALBOLT / HEAVY TABLE This column is underwritten with generous support from United Noodles, Minnesota’s largest Asian grocery store, awarded “Best Intern… Read More
2020-12-07 13:00
Earlier this autumn, Jill Colella from Food Building pinged James Norton from Heavy Table and said something to the effect of, “Hey, it’s been a tough year for everybody, what if… Read More
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