Food & Drink
The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair
The return of our peerless, pitiless Scarf!, Shrug, Skip system.
Brunch Buds: We Went to Dumpling Eatery to (What Else?) Eat Dumplings
If you've been craving great soup dumplings and/or a bathroom with a Robot Trash Can, have we got the place for you.
Pungent Eats, Pride, and the Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade: A Visit to the Minnesota Garlic Festival
Garlic ice cream, garlic kettle corn, garlic smoothies... this fest in Hutchinson has everything.
State Fair Boots the Big Pepper, a Family-Run Biz for Nearly 50 Years
They even had to hire someone to demolish the Pepper, which was a permanent structure on the fairgrounds until this year.
5 Things to Know About Bill’s Bait Shop, Centro Restaurant Group’s Northwoods Nostalgia Bomb
Good decor and great walleye in south Minneapolis.
How to Spend a Day at Asia Village
Eat, drink, and shop your way through Blaine's new Asian superstore.
FINE! We’ll Review Kwik Trip’s New SPAMwiches.
We need to stop doing this.
A Farm Stop, a Candy Shop, a Bakery, and a Brewery All Opened in July
Plus lots of announcements for what's coming soon in the Racket Restaurant Roundup.
Slow Down! Cultural Cafes Are Offering Spaces to Settle in With Friends.
Driven by Yemeni and Egyptian businesses, a new kind of coffee shop is spreading through the Twin Cities.
Best Budget Bites: $9.99 Chicken Shawarma Sandwich at Wally’s Falafel & Hummus
A delicious deal in Dinkytown.
