Category: Restaurants
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Buttercream and Cheese Asian Sweet Bun
Butter Cream/Cheese Sweet Bun from Satay-2-Go, a photo by aharste on Flickr. I’ve raved before on this blog about how much I love Corrina’s curry puffs and buns from Satay-2-Go in Apple Valley. She makes some of the best Asian pastries you will ever taste! They are baked from scratch every morning. This morning I […]
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Prune-Filled Donuts Are Bliss! Who Knew?
Hartman’s Bakery & Pastry 901 North 11th Street Manitowoc, WI 54220 On the way to Elkhart Lake last weekend we passed this little bakery on a sleepy corner in Manitowoc, WI. I demanded that we stop. Inside there was a line and a lot of plaques on the wall awarding them Best Donuts in the […]
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Fish & Chips Perfection
Halibut fish & chips from Mac’s Fish & Chips at the intersection of Hamline and Larpenteur in St. Paul. I’d write a review, but nothing I would say could improve on the photo.
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Mojo Monkey Donuts
Mojo Monkey Donuts 1169 7th Street West Saint Paul, MN 55102 It’s well documented on this blog that my favorite donuts are the pink-frosted cruellers at Sunrise Donuts in Bloomington. But I have been know to stray and I was led into temptation on Friday morning We were in the neighborhood, and a friend guided […]
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RIP Purple Sandpiper
My son just stopped in at the Purple Sandpiper in Bloomington. There was a sign on the door that they are closed indefinitely for mechanical reasons. I think we all know what this means in “restaurant speak”. The Web site is also gone. A year ago I had such high hopes, but as the months […]
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