Author: Jeremy Iggers

  • Southern Swing: Gastronomic Gems in Rochester and Decorah

    Carol and I got really lucky last night. We were on our way back to the Cities from visiting her folks on the farm, not too far from Decorah, when we decided to stop for dinner in Rochester. I wanted to check out Söntés, the new tapas bar and restaurant at 4 3rd St. SW,…

  • Acadia Cafe: Shades of the New Riv

    I felt a twinge of nostalgia the other night when I stopped in for a bite at the Acadia Café, which recently moved from Franklin and Nicollet to Cedar and Riverside. Back in my college days – and for many years after, the space was home to the New Riverside Café, run by an anarchist…

  • Jade: What's a Critic to Do?

    The question I get asked most often, (after "what’s your favorite restaurant?") is "do you get recognized a lot when you review restaurants?" The answer is, sometimes I do, and sometimes I don’t. When a longtime local restaurateur opens a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis, and staffs it with servers who have been on the local…

  • Get Sauced! A Northside Discovery

    It’s in Minneapolis, it’s the best restaurant for miles around, and odds are you have never even heard of it. Sauced, a little neighborhood bistro at 2203 44th Ave. N. (at Penn Ave.) isn’t just the best restaurant in north Minneapolis; it’s the only restaurant in north Minneapolis with a menu of contemporary cuisine and…

  • Callaloo and Churrasco: Adventures on 38th St.

    The Twin Cities’ gastronomic bio-diversity seems to be concentrated in three main hot zones: Eat Street (Nicollet Ave.), with its mix of Mexican, Chinese, Vietnamese and German eateries; Central Avenue in northeast Minneapolis, where the blend is Indian, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Middle Eastern; and University Avenue in Saint Paul, where Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, and Thai…

  • Heures Joyeuses Chez Vincent

    I bellied up to the bar at Vincent A Restaurant yesterday evening, and started to dig into what has to rate as the best happy hour deal in town: tap beers and wines by the glass for $3, appetizers for $3.50-$4, and the Vincent burger, stuffed with braised short rib for $8 (regularly $12.75). The…