Food and restaurants

If I hadn’t been surfing the web, I would never have run across the website of The Bush Chicken, the online magazine of Minnesota’s Liberian community, and then I also would never have heard of Vicky’s Place. The ad in the Bush Chicken looked promising, though – it promised fufu and soup, torborgee, attieke, fried rice and more. With a little more surfing, I discovered Vicky’s website, and a lot more interesting-sounding dishes – lots of standard American fare, ranging from pancakes and French toast to chicken wings and hoagies and daily Liberian specials. MORE »

Stumbling upon this restaurant was a pleasant surprise – this is a great place for Sushi in the South-West Metro. MORE »

This podcast features part 2 in our audio tour of LoveTree Farmstead Cheese, out of Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Did you know that most of the USA’s 44 sheep dairy operations are in the Upper Midwest and Northeast? They’re in northwestern Wisconsin, east central Minnesota, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Rugged country. Rugged sheep. MORE »

It’s a scene enough to bring tears to a restaurant owner’s eyes. As we dined Friday night at the new Favor Café (the former Restaurant Miami), 913 W. Lake St., one party after another walked in the door – mostly young women dressed for a night of partying. Some of them sat down at tables, while others headed straight for the bar. And each time, the owner or a waiter had to inform them that, even though there was a well-stocked bar in plain sight, they could not order a drink – the restaurant is still waiting for its liquor license. (Our waiter said he hoped it would arrive in a week or two.) MORE »