Cupcake Bakery cancels plans for Grand Ave. location

Categories: News
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Cupcake's plans to build on Grand crumble
After months of zoning board meetings, pushback from the Summit Hill Association and almost $20,000 in architectural fees, Kevin Vanderaa, owner of Cupcake Bakery, told the Pioneer Press he is scrapping plans for a second store.

The new Cupcake Bakery, which was supposed to be on Grand between Lexington and Dale, had plans to include a 32-seat wine bar and thus would require Vanderaa to have a shared parking arrangement. Vanderaa has signed a lease with Anderson Cleaners for parking spaces and was "stunned" to find out that the Summit Hill Association had filed an appeal after construction had already begun on the site.


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Best of Hot Dish: January 30-February 3, 2012

Categories: Weekly Wrap-up

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Alma Guzman
A nice slice o' pizza pie will fix the winter blahs.
​Yes, we are in that creepy part of winter where there is never enough light. But at Hot Dish we know fine food and drink can brighten any day. Here are a few of the week's top stories to fill your life with much-needed sunshine.

~We take you up close and personal to the brand new Zamboni's Pizza in this new slideshow.

~Rock on Surly Brewing, voted the 11th best brewery in the whole wide world. 

~Want to know what restaurants are now open, closed, or coming soon? We got you covered with the Month in Review. 

~ We talk in depth with Gabrielle Hamilton about her life as a chef and author of the new memoir Blood, Bones & Butter.

~It's Super Bowl time, and there is no greater way to combine the love of the sport and the joy of snackin' than the edible stadium--here's our 5 faves.

Have a wonderful weekend! See you next week. 

Food trucks represent at the Winter Carnival

Categories: Food Truck
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Joy Summers
Who doesn't want sliders in the snow?
This wimpy winter has made the lack of food trucks all the more evident. When the temperature gauge reaches over 30 degrees it leaves us cold-hardy Midwesterners itchy to get back outside. A few trucks pop up here and there, but most are relying on catering gigs or laying on a tropical beach.

This week as the winter carnival marches on, celebrating how supremely awesome our longest season is, we found a few brave souls who had rolled their trucks out of the garages and fired up the grills.  Here's who we found, some familiar faces and some new.

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Gabrielle Hamilton tells the stories behind the stories of Blood, Bones & Butter (part 2)

Categories: Events, Interview

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Earlier this week we spoke with Gabrielle Hamilton, author of Blood, Bones & Butter, and attended her Talk of the Stacks reading at the Minneapolis Central Library. Read part 1 to learn how the book came into being, and why her childhood began fancifully but ended decisively and spiraled into adulthood too soon.

Today, we pick up just as Hamilton is opening her New York restaurant Prune. And we're about to meet her future spouse, who's quite unexpected...

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Top 5 edible stadiums for your Super Bowl party

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Break.com

​Chips. Dips. Lil' Smokies. Along with chili, beer, and something mixed with Velveeta in a crock pot, these are the staples of the Super Bowl diet. Perhaps you are planning on getting fancy with crudités, canapes, and blended drinks but have you thought about your game day centerpiece yet? If you're considering making one that's edible, scrap the tower of football shaped cupcakes with royal icing laces (you did that last year, everyone knows) and really go all out with a snack food stadium.


With their beef stick goal posts, walls made of Rice Krispies Treats, and cilantro-topped turf, here, in no particular order, are five of the best edible stadiums that the internet has to offer.

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Gabrielle Hamilton tells the stories behind the stories of Blood, Bones & Butter (part 1)

Categories: Events, Interview

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Gabrielle Hamilton
​Author and chef Gabrielle Hamilton is full of surprises. At last night's Talk of the Stacks at Minneapolis Central Library, the audience was anticipating the bravado and swagger of an author who had just written a provocative tell-all memoir, committed grand larceny as a juvenile, dealt with human excrement and maggot-filled rats, worked weekend brunch while 39 weeks pregnant and written an unapologetic depiction of kitchen life that's so true to form it's garnered respect from even Anthony Bourdain.

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Stewart Woodman announces new restaurant Birdhouse

Categories: News
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Heidi and Stewart Woodman are opening another restaurant
We first heard a rumor that Stewart Woodman, chef and owner of Uptown's Heidi's, had bought the house that once was home to Duplex.  Yesterday, word came out that Woodman is moving ahead with plans to open a second restaurant.

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'Chicken McNugget Girl' gets a makeover from local artist

Categories: Weird Food
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Nuggets: a complete source of artistic inspiration

​Last week, the Daily Mail ran a story about Stacey Irvine, a 17-year-old British girl who "has eaten almost nothing else apart from chicken nuggets for almost 15 years." She was rushed to the hospital after collapsing and doctors suspected her health problems could be tied to her diet, which was painfully lacking in nutrients. 


Since her mother says Irvine has not made any commitments to making over her unhealthy diet, local artist Becky Lang has taken the literal approach to painting Irvine in a new light.

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Month in Review: Open, Closed, Coming Soon February '12

Categories: Month in Review
NOW OPEN
2207 N. 2nd St., Minneapolis
On tap at Pig & Fiddle and Eli's East. For sale at Four Firkins and Ale Jail
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Colossal Cafe expands to St. Paul, gets truer to its name
2315 Como Ave., St. Paul
815 East Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
2523 Nicollet Ave.. Minneapolis
1250 Town Centre Drive, Eagan
1119 Center St., North Mankato
Oceanaire Seafood Room (City Pages Preview)
50 S. 6th St., Minneapolis 
1930 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
2912 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
2073 Ford Parkway, St.Paul



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The Oceanaire grand opening at 6th and Nicollet

Categories: Now Open
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David McCrindle
Oceanaire's new home at the corner of 6th and Nicollet
​"I like to think of it as retro-meets-futuristic," General Manager Jake Uttich says of the decor at the gorgeous new location of The Oceanaire Seafood Room. "Like where the Jetsons would want to come to have dinner." The space, on the corner of 6th and Nicollet, does feel very much like the dining room of a cruise ship from a more glamorous bygone era. Even though their official dress code is business casual, elbow gloves and bow ties would not be entirely out of place either. 
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