Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Dual Citizen Brewing Company for their underwriting support. The essence of Bite of the Week is to highlight good food, and for the most part that’s what we’ve done. But once in a while, you … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Farmer’s Market Green Curry Ramen at Tori Ramen
August 12, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Dual Citizen Brewing Company for their underwriting support. One-dimensional ramens and curries at mediocre restaurants obscure the fact that a carefully built broth is an awesome and multilayered thing of beauty that can stand on … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Fried Chicken Bao at Dumpling
August 5, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Dual Citizen Brewing Company for their underwriting support. Generally, the word “bao” conjures up the soft, pillowy, fist-sized steamed pork dumplings that crowd dim sum carts from coast to coast. It does not, in … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: House Beef Roll at Tea House Chinese
July 29, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Dual Citizen Brewing Company for their underwriting support. Getting a good appetizer is half the battle of any meal, but if you can get a great appetizer—a craveable, inhalable, delectable appetizer—you can almost quit right … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: ‘Best Pork Taco’ at Yeah Yeah Taco
July 22, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Hop & Barrel Brewing for their underwriting support. Some of the most enjoyable tacos in town are produced by one of the most intriguing business groups around. The three-person team behind the insurgently weird and excellent Zettas (read … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: BBQ Pork Puff at Keefer Court
July 15, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Hop & Barrel Brewing for their underwriting support. In 2019—a year that feels like several decades ago—The Growler ran a blow-out feature story about the Keefer Court bakery, a multi-generational monument to the beautiful tradition … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Fried Chicken Sammich at Nashville Coop
July 8, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. We’d like to thank Hop & Barrel Brewing for their underwriting support. It has been a hot minute since food trucks caught much buzz in the metro area—even before COVID-19 put a cold hard hammerlock on dining and dishing … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Fried Chicken to Go at Magnolias Restaurant
March 18, 2020 by
Editor’s Note: Magnolias Restaurant is currently take-out only in compliance with Governor Walz’s executive order on restaurants. Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. It’s difficult to overstate the comfort factor of simple, well-made, fried chicken. It’s the complete package: protein and carbs, crunch and … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Horchata at Bravis
March 11, 2020 by
Over the course of compiling our nearly 100-location Minnesota Taco Atlas, we’ve had a lot of horchata. It’s our go-to taco beverage, and every place does this rice milk, cinnamon, and vanilla drink a little bit differently—some are thick, some are watery, some are sugar-sweet, some are austere, some are cinnamon-challenge spicy, and others are … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: iTorta at iTaco
February 26, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. With a name like “iTorta,” you might expect a Mexican sandwich with Bluetooth connectivity, or at least some kind of basic, gluten-based cellular network connection. No such luck—iTaco’s namesake sandwich ($10) is decidedly low-tech, but it is, to … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Gogi Pork Fries at Umami Fries
February 19, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. If you’re going to build your business around a food experience that might most easily be described as “Asian-influenced poutine,” the first step is to make sure your fries are up to the task. Umami Fries, a newish … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: Big K.R.I.T. fried chicken sandwich at Soul Bowl
February 12, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. One of the pleasant surprises hidden within the stylish confines of the new North Loop food courts is that great food can emerge from even manicured, highly focus-grouped surroundings. We loved the Luau Bowl at Ono Hawaiian Plates … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: The Pho and Ramen Bar at Kowalski’s on Hennepin
February 5, 2020 by
If you’re not innovating, you’re dying. God bless all the grocery stores that keep trying to push those margins a little bit by expanding into new products, services, and hot food offerings—it’s that kind of thinking that brought us the surprisingly good sushi at Hy-Vee, among other things. (It’s also brought us surprisingly bad sushi … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: The Luau Bowl at Ono Hawaiian Plates
January 29, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. The newly opened sleek and chic North Loop Galley may offer only four different dining concepts for its guests, but they are so varied—and so creative—that most diners will find something to enjoy amongst the offerings. Case in … [ Read more]
Bite of the Week: The Biscuit at Betty and Earl’s
January 22, 2020 by
Bite of the Week is a weekly feature showcasing an exceptional meal or dish, curated by The Growler. There’s a lot to unpack with the new Potluck MN Food Hall at Rosedale Center. It has replaced the scuttled Revolution Hall, a food court that failed in part because of its reliance on gimmicky food and a … [ Read more]
