Food & Drink
Street Wheat: The Front Porch Bakery Bringing Croissants, Community to the Wedge
For three hours every Sunday, a powder-blue house at 27th and Colfax becomes the neighborhood's hottest bakery.
Goodbye to Palmer’s: A Requiem for Minneapolis’s Weirdest and Wonderfullest Bar
The landmark West Bank bar will close in 10 days. Here's why that happened—and what will be lost.
The Weedeater: Smashed-adilla
It’s time we right one of the many, many wrongs of the Minnesota State Fair’s new foods list.
Best Budget Bites: $3.75 Happy Hour Tacos From Pizza Luce Duluth
Racket's Twin Ports nightlife correspondent files a tantalizing taco recommendation.
Here’s All the Non-State Fair Food News You Missed This Month
A very abbreviated edition of the Racket Restaurant Roundup.
August 29, 2025
The Brunch Buds Go to the Fair
Can you 1) brunch 2) at the fair 3) with a three-year-old in tow? Read on and learn!
Doin’ Minnesota State Fair Beers 2025: The Best and Worst of the Year’s New Beers
Including this year’s big talker—Pryes’ Royal Raspberry soft serve.
The Best, Worst, and Most Middling New Foods of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair
Enjoy 7,000 words of reviews set to our proprietary Scarf!, Shrug, Skip rating system.
August 22, 2025
The Best New MN State Fair Foods Since 2016, When the Perfect Rating System Debuted
Let's review the tape before stuffing our gullets.
