Download: Let's Eat (In Victory + Defeat)
Big Local Art weekend, Diane's Adds Dinner, New Chef at Hewing's Restaurant
FOOD brings people together. It’s part of what I love about eating out: random encounters with people outside our silos is helpful. Listening, asking questions, leading with love. WE all want the same things: we want to feel safe, we want great education, we want economic opportunity. We have different ideas on how to get there. Celebrate your electoral win or mourn your loss, take your time, but this weekend is a great time to get out in the community and live.
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Did you see the wooden huts on a downtown rooftop on Sunday Night Football. The Nordic Village at Four Seasons Minneapolis! Bring your team or family - I sent a corporate event planner this week to the Private Dining Team at privatedining.minneapolis@fourseasons.com.
Download readers who book a private dining event in Mistral, Marin or Nordic Village in November or December 2024 get a free glass of bubbles for everyone in their group. Want a full buyout of Mara Bar, Mara Restaurant and Nordic Village?
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Chef From Vann’s New Gig
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DOWNLOAD DIALOGUE: BRING ART INTO YOUR LIFE
This weekend is one of the great opportunities to explore open studios at the Northrup King Art Attack [https://fluence-media.co/3C5YLuP]. We just bought a piece from Luis Fitch (he has a black & white show at La Dona), I adore the new Kickernick Gallery near Target Center downtown, and I’m taking your votes on which incredible Drew Beson piece should go in our big open space on the main floor (Vote on FB: https://fluence-media.co/4hFyhAQ on IG: https://fluence-media.co/3AJlmNo)
Art makes me smile. It makes me think. It makes me proud. It’s not just about things on the wall - the handmade Mercury Mosaics tiles in two rooms, and locally-blown Hennepin Made light fixtures are also art. As you go through the consumption season that is the holidays - consider how you can support the artists who make our community have soul!
Be in the DeRusha Holiday Gift Guide! No pay-for-play - I just want to know your cool local gift ideas, I’m especially interested in cool experiences. Are there classes or special access that you want to share with my readers? Email Jason@JasonDeRusha.com!
DERUSHA’S ULTIMATE THANKSGIVING TAKEOUT GUIDE
Just published at MNMO: READ: https://fluence-media.co/40vDyVq
OPEN OR COMING SOON:
RAMEN IN RICHFIELD: Kajiken Ramen, opens Saturday, November 9. [ORDER ONLINE: https://fluence-media.co/4hziMu5]
DIANE’S PLACE opens for dinner service tomorrow, Saturday, November 9 [RESERVATIONS: https://fluence-media.co/43LdkxI]
MERITAGE: brunch returns Sunday. RESY: https://fluence-media.co/3NZbVMV
STONEGARDEN: Opens Monday, breakfast, Brunch, broth. Between Diamond Lake and Lake Nokomis Mpls: https://fluence-media.co/40G4aD9
RUSSELL’S: Opens Friday, Nov. 15 on Grand Avenue, St. Paul.
MINARI: Opens Monday, Nov. 18 in NE Mpls. Soft opening this Monday.
DeRusha’s Bites is presented by Room & Board - see how they transformed my living room on my Instagram or read more about the process at JasonDeRusha.com
VANN’S CHEF HAS A NEW GIG: Big news! Chef Erik Skaar is now the chef de cuisine of Tullibee! Erik was on the Beard long list for Best Chef: Midwest for Vann on Lake Minnetonka. Chef Marque Collins got promoted to Director of Food & Bev for the Hewing Hotel. Timely, as we just were invited to experience a “Leave it to the chef” experience at Tullibee last night. $80 a guest, Tullibee’s surprise tasting menu is great fun. Highly seasonal- we loved a couple beet dishes and an excellent pheasant. No special reservation needed - your table can just order it off the menu. BOOK: https://fluence-media.co/40ClrNJ
SPOON TURNS 10; MOSCOW TURNS 30:
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ST. PAUL BAGELRY REMODEL: Closed for another week - for an overdue glow-up. I love Peggy Teed: she and her sister Dodie (RIP) bought the bagel shop in Roseville in 2007 but it’s been there since 1993 and never had a remodel. Opens Nov. 14. [My TV story from 2017 - text: https://fluence-media.co/3C90gbO, YouTube https://fluence-media.co/48xKrHM]
VINAI: 3 Things to try at Vinai. My IG: https://fluence-media.co/40mGPX2
WHITE BEAR LAKE GUIDE: Paid subscribers got a guide to White Bear Lake - what a teriffic suburb! Great restaurants and bars and the coolest VFW view I’ve ever seen. https://fluence-media.co/3UBabgM
YOUR GOOD QUESTIONS VIA EMAIL
SEND IT BACK?
I had lunch with a friend last week and… I ordered a Bloody Mary and it was easily the worst Bloody Mary I've ever had. By a longshot. It wasn't spicy at all (although there was some salty stuff on the rim of the glass). It was light pink and tasted more like water with a bit of tomato sauce in it. It was terrible. And certainly a disappointment considering it cost $13. I just let it be, but I am wondering if that was the best way to handle it. -Rick
SEND IT BACK! Or at least give them the chance to offer you something else. Look, when I order something and it’s executed the way it was promised and I just don’t like it, I figure that’s my problem, not theirs. AND, I also think the way a place chooses to respond to honest feedback says a lot about how they run the business. SO I would say: this just didn’t taste at all like what I expected. Is it supposed to be so runny? Light pink? I don’t care for it, thanks.
And then see if they offer to make you another one- or offer another drink - or maybe just apologize. No expectations, but I’d rather bring it up than be mad about it when I got home.
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MY WEEKEND PLANNER
Tonight we’re going back to Chilango with a couple we met on our trip to Portugal, somehow we have no plans for Saturday or Sunday!