Think Global, Eat Local

You can add the Grand Cafe to the list of restaurants participating in the Wedge Natural Foods Co-op’s Eat Local Challenge. (See Ann’s post below.) The popular south Minneapolis bistro has a new chef: Jon Radle, but don’t expect any big changes at the popular south Minneapolis bistro. Owner Mary Hunter says that the cafe menu will keep its Euro-American flavor, but with a greater emphasis on local and organic ingredients. Radle, formerly Doug Flicker’s sous-chef at Auriga, has already added a few new entrees to the dinner menu, including a very local dish of pan-roasted pork sirloin and ribs, accompanied by a sweet corn porridge and sauteed rapini; the pork comes from Fischer Farms near Waseca; the sweet corn from Axdahl Farms in Stillwater, and the rapini from Riverbend Organic Farms in Delano.
Grand Cafe, 3804 Grand Ave. S., Minneapolis, (612)822-8260.