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Curiocity: A Chef’s Profile Of Jamie Malone, Part 2
The Twin Cities are blessed when it comes to talent in the kitchen. The culinary minds at the helm of our favorite restaurants receive critical acclaim and top honors from food enthusiasts and...
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Man’s Death After Fight On Lake Street Ruled A Homicide
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating the March 4 death of a 45-year-old man as a homicide. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the manner of the...
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Curiocity: A Chef’s Profile Of Jack Riebel, Part 2
The Twin Cities are blessed when it comes to talent in the kitchen. The culinary minds at the helm of our favorite restaurants receive critical acclaim and top honors from food enthusiasts and...
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Want To Name A New Restaurant In Uptown?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — If you’ve ever wanted to name a restaurant — now’s your chance. When the Kaskaid Hospitality group — parent company of Crave, Union, figlio and Urban Eatery — opens their latest...
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Fugitive Wis. Officer Arrested In Barron County
RICE LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Waupun police officer suspected of burglarizing a restaurant in eastern Wisconsin, leading officers on a chase and stealing two vehicles was arrested Tuesday evening in...
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Burger King Now Offering Delivery In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Residents in Minneapolis now have one more option for ordering in. Burger King announced plans Tuesday to expand their services to include home delivery in two more cities. So far,...
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Travail Restaurant’s Kickstart Campaign Blows By Goal
ROBBINSDALE, Minn. (WCCO) – A restaurant that tries to bring fine dining to the masses got a lot of help from those masses on Tuesday night. Travail in Robbinsdale closed down in April to change...
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Think You Can Eat A 2.5-Pound Burger In 30 Minutes?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Happy National Cheeseburger Day! What is two-and-a-half pounds, with eight strips of bacon, eight slices of cheese and 20 pickles? It’s the Beast Burger and you can only get one...
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Curiocity: Cosmos Restaurant Celebrates 10th Anniversary
It’s not often that a downtown Minneapolis restaurant celebrates 10 years in business so when one is lucky enough to do so, it certainly calls for a celebration. Next month, Graves 601 Hotel and Cosmos...
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Curiocity: First Look At Lake & Irving In Uptown
Two brothers with a passion for food left their respective warm-weather climates behind in order to open their first establishment in their home state. Luckily for us, they’re bringing some of that...
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Curiocity: Pizza Studio Brings Create-Your-Own Concept To MOA
The nation’s largest mall is adding yet another option for hungry shoppers. Pizza Studio, from the brains of Lloyd Sugarman (of the Johnny Rockets franchise), will open a new location at the Mall of...
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Revamped 400 Bar To Reopen At MOA
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A little more than a year after shutting its doors, the popular West Bank music club, the 400 Bar, is set to reemerge as a multiple-use music complex at the Mall of America. The...
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Jewish Group Speaks Out On Photo Of Nazi Flags In Mpls. Restaurant
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Local Jewish community groups were speaking out Tuesday about a controversial holiday party held at a popular Minneapolis restaurant. Gasthof’s took heat after a picture showing...
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Curiocity: Cajun 2 Geaux To Open Circle Pines Restaurant
Good news for those craving a taste of the Bayou. The man who brought us delicious Cajun cuisine from a bright green food truck is expanding his efforts and opening a brick-and-mortar in the north...
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Surly Brewing Names Jorge Guzman As Executive Chef For New Brewery
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Surly Brewing has hired Jorge Guzman to be the executive chef for the new full service restaurant that will be a part of the $30-million plus destination brewery the company is...
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Diggity Drive Up Sit-Down Restaurant Goes Server Free
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – When you go to a sit-down restaurant, you’re probably used to being waited on. The team behind Tavern on France has come up with a new concept, a server-free restaurant. The idea...
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Mpls. Restaurant Group Raises Minimum Wage
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A major Twin Cities restaurant group is raising the minimum wage for some of its employees, and it’s higher than the new state law requires. The Blue Plate Restaurant Company owns...
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Bar Abilene In Uptown Closes
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A popular Uptown bar has surprisingly closed its doors for good, according to messages left on its social media accounts. Overnight, the people who run Bar Abilene’s Twitter and...
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Federal Agents Search West St. Paul Restaurant
WEST ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Federal immigration agents have searched a Minnesota restaurant as part of an investigation. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched the Hibachi Grill and...
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Special Recipes Among Items Allegedly Stolen From Frogtown Restaurant
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police are searching for the person, or people, who allegedly stole one-of-a-kind recipes from a St. Paul restaurant. According to the police report, officers responded to a call...
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Parking Problems Put St. Paul Restaurant On Hold
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – A dispute over parking has put a new St. Paul restaurant in limbo, making it unable to open its doors to the public. The Salt Cellar along Selby Avenue has been ready to open...
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Spill The Wine Closing After Eight Years
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - After eight years, Minneapolis restaurant Spill the Wine is mopping up and shutting down. The Uptown wine bar announced on its Facebook page Tuesday that it is closing doors. A new...
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Flavor Minnesota
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‘Flavor’ Restaurant Event To Benefit Kids, Low-Income Families
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150506134332607AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A one-of-a-kind restaurant event is taking place next week that brings attention to kids and their nutrition....
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DeRusha Eats: Loews’ Apothecary
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One of the hottest parts of the Twin Cities dining scene right now: hotels. For years, hotel bars and restaurants were afterthoughts, and had trouble getting locals in the door....
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Controversy Erupts Over Diner Owner Who Yelled At 2-Year-Old
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A social media firestorm erupted at a diner in Maine and has spread across the web. It involves a toddler who couldn’t stop crying and a restaurant owner who couldn’t take it...
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Minn. Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty To $420K Tax Fraud Scheme
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 33-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a $420,000 tax scheme involving two restaurants he owns in Big Lake and St. Michael, the United States Attorney’s Office announced...
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Mpls.-St. Paul Magazine’s Restaurant Week Begins
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Restaurant Week is the chance to try some of the hottest restaurants for a little less. There are 55 restaurants across the Twin Cities taking part this year. Six of these are...
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Warrant Issued For Minn. Man Suspected In Somali Restaurant Arson
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – An arrest warrant has been issued in North Dakota for a Minnesota man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail inside a Somali restaurant. The Grand Forks Police Department says...
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DeRusha Eats: Eastside
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — There are new restaurants chasing trends, or trying to forge an identity as cutting-edge. Then there are restaurants that are just plain good; restaurants that open and instantly...
View ArticleMan Claims Restaurant Asked Him To Leave For Wearing Cross
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (CBS Local) – An Indiana man and his pastor are claiming that a local restaurant profiled them and threatened to throw the man out for wearing a cross in public. Jerry Bond was with a...
View ArticleYoung Joni Restaurant Could Open ‘As Early As This Week’ After Fire
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A popular northeast Minneapolis restaurant could open to the public as early as this week following a Sunday night fire. “The good news is that no one was hurt and the damage...
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Restaurant Flyer, GoFundMe To Support Patric Vitek’s Family
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Patric Vitek was hit by a car while riding across the road on his way to Dakota Hills Middle School yesterday. It was his 13th birthday. Several businesses are now trying to help...
View ArticleSt. Paul Bar & Grill O’Gara’s Closing, To Remain At State Fair
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — After 77 years St. Paul is saying goodbye to O’Gara’s for good. The O’Gara family says it’s a decision they didn’t take lightly. The owner tells WCCO how they made the touch...
View ArticleCoronavirus Impact: ‘It’s Not Just Like We Can Give Up,’ Says Local...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — WCCO is checking back in with three Twin Cities restaurants, fighting to survive, in our series “Waiting Tables.” A lot can change in two weeks – for better or for worse. Two weeks...
View ArticleMinnesota Businesses Gearing Up To Enforce The Statewide Mask Mandate
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota’s mask mandate officially starts at midnight Friday. Face coverings will be required in most indoor areas. That includes restaurants like Babe’s in Lakeville, where the...
View ArticleFans And Restaurants Prepare For Vikings Border Battle Like No Other
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minnesota Vikings are getting ready to kick off their 60th season on Sunday with a border battle that will look like no other for players and fans. Dajuan Warren has been to...
View Article‘The Fair On 4,’ MOA’s New Restaurant & Entertainment Concept, To Open In...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A new restaurant and entertainment concept is opening on level four of the Mall of America this December. ‘The Fair On 4’ will feature fair-inspired foods, pizzas, signature...
View ArticleSome Metro Restaurants To Go Into Hibernation For The Winter, Will Reopen In...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – As Minnesota continues to see a rise in COVID-19 cases, we’re also starting to see some businesses take action. As winter sets in, many restaurants are choosing to close, but it’s...
View ArticleRed Rabbit To Reopen Tuesday After Suffering Fire Damage
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Red Rabbit restaurant in downtown Minneapolis will reopen on Tuesday, after a kitchen fire and the subsequent damage closed their doors for almost three months. The building...
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