Now Open in the Best of Hot Dish: June 20-24, 2011

​It's summer, and everyone is throwing their hats in the restaurant ring. Sure, some opt for the small step--a food truck or stand--while others go whole hog (love that phrase) and roll out something big and all-encompassing. This edition of Best of Hot Dish offers a healthy slice of "Now Open" for your reading and eating pleasures.

• Check out Simply Steve and Potter's Pasties, two new food trucks making the scene.
• Amu's Madras becomes Indian Garden in a Columbia Heights spot that always seems to house Indian food.
• Old fave Muddy Waters opens a big, boozy, fresh location. Nice digs!
• Gaga for gelato? Head to Edina's new Pandolfi at 50th and France.
• Plus, a look at the Lowry, now open in North.

Enjoy a weekend of first sips and nibbles, and we'll see you back here next week!