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As much you we love our dads, we also love a good bargain. Thankfully, so do these Twin Cities restaurants -- they want to help you celebrate Father's Day with foodie giveaways and specials galore.
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| Eggs over subterranean hash at Birdhouse on Hennepin, one of the restaurants on our list that still has reservations on Mother's Day |
Mothers' Day is right around the corner. And just in time, the Muddy Pig serves up something that both you and Mom will truly treasure -- beer and artful gifts. On Sunday, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., the bar will be collaborating with Founders Brewing Company and 14 local artists to present the Arts and Craft Beer Boutique.
Beer drinking and Mother's Day shopping: Why didn't someone think of this before?
New Year's Eve is fast approaching, but reservations are still plentiful
Let's get real. Many of us are the wait-till-the-last-minute types when it comes to booking those special holiday reservations. Well, friends, fear that procrastination bug no longer: We've scoped out some of the Twin Cities' top restaurants that still have seating available.
What better way to celebrate France's National Celebration than to dine like one refueling after having just stormed the Bastille? 
www.wikipedia.com Brunch for Bastille Day!
Hotel Sofitel, the south metro's nexus of French culture, will be hosting a Bastille Day Grand Buffet at its Colette Bar & Bistro on Sunday, July, 17, from 10 am to 2 pm.
The menu includes juices and hot drinks, plus house wines, mimosas or bloody Marys. Food choices include buffet classics like carved turkey, smoked ham, fresh seafood, smoked salmon, and an omelet station, plus, a sushi station, pasta cooked "a la minute," and eggs Benedict with Canadian bacon. For Francophiles, there will be beef bourguignon, a crêpes station, and a large selection of French desserts.
Jazz vocalist, Maud Hixson, who often performs with the French 75, will be giving a performance for diners.
The cost is $48 per person ($22 for children ages 6 to 11, complimentary for 5 and under) and reservations are recommended by calling 952.835.1900 or by emailing
rebecca.norberg@sofitel.com.
Planning your Fourth of July cookout? Us too! 
A Minnesota-made menu will cause foodie fireworks this 4th!
We recommend celebrating with a simple, Minnesota-grown menu of flame-kissed meats, fresh-picked produce, pie, and beer.
Here's what to buy and where to shop.
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Sure, a lot of places in town do great chocolate desserts, but if you were looking to crown a local king of the sweet substance, you might consider Patisserie 46's chef-owner John Kraus, who happens to be a past winner of the freaking Food Network's Chocolate Challenge. 
Craig Lassig Sweets for your sweetie at Patisserie 46.
This Monday, from 3 to 7 p.m., Kraus will be showing off some of the chocolate sculpting that secured him the title and, with the help of his wife, Dawn, devoting the shop to all dark-and-milk deliciousness.
Check out this list of goodies and photo of what's in store:
Made your New Year's Eve plans yet, or are you procrastinating? If you caught yesterday's Week in Food post, you already heard about a couple of options: Tour de Farm hosts its final meal of 2010 in a heated, hundred-year-old barn at Star Thrower Farm in Glencoe, and Om transforms into a Shanghai music lounge, complete with karaoke, casino games, contortionists, geishas, and an ice dragon shot luge! 
Where will you ring in the New Year?
Here are five other restaurants hosting the coolest-sounding meals/parties to ring in 2011:
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Remember Festivus?
DRosenbach, Wikipedia. Festivus for the rest of us.
It's that holiday George Costanza's dad invented where everyone sits around an aluminum pole and complains about each other.
Middleton, Wisconsin's Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant will celebrate the time-honored Festivus tradition a la Seinfeld tonight. All participants are asked to bring in a charitable donation for the local homeless shelter.
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We know that most of the world grinds to a well-deserved halt on Christmas Day--shops close, the mail stops, and everyone cuddles up by the fireplace and plays Scrabble while snow gently falls outside and Bing Crosby croons to you through a Baileys-induced stupor. But what if you don't have a fireplace, you hate Scrabble, and you smashed your bottle of Bailey's over the stereo to make the Crosby stop? Or what if your sweetheart, like mine, has the dubious distinction of sharing his birthday with Jesus, and all he wants in the world is a fancy birthday dinner at a nice restaurant? One year we resorted to flying to Vegas, where not even Christmas can stop the fun. But there are a few options between Priceline and starvation, and the good news is that the sweet holiday lull assures you your pick of the best tables and most attentive service of the year. Read on for the rundown of some of the best Twin Cities restaurants options for your Christmas dinner.
Kikugawa and Seven are two places you can get your sushi fix on Christmas Day.
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