Jeffy Mai is the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. Welcome to the Opening Report, a curated roundup of recent restaurant ...

The Mill City or the Saintly City — which to choose? (St. Paul’s original name was actually “Pig’s Eye” — monikers have vastly improved.) ...

Stacy Brooks is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist who has been covering food and travel since 2015. The Eater 38 is a tapestry of Minneapolis and St. Paul’s essential restaurants, comprising ...

Cinnamon Janzer is a Minneapolis-based independent writer with an affinity for the Great Plains, who publishes place-based, narrative nonfiction stories in a variety of local, national, and ...

Stacy Brooks is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist who has been covering food and travel since 2015. In this update, we’re keeping Kado no Mise, and saying farewell to its sibling restaurant ...

There are many restaurants across Minneapolis and St. Paul with great Juicy Lucys. Here are 10 essential spots. New to the Map: This round, we’re bidding farewell to Mandalay Kitchen, which serves ...

It’s officially patio season in the Cities. Because weather can change quickly, it’s always best to double-check ahead of time that a restaurant patio is, indeed, open (and for some, of course, it’s ...

Louis Livingston-Garcia is a reporter and photojournalist based outside of Madison, who has covered the craft beverage space for over a decade.

Compared to 2024, two more chefs and restaurants from Minneapolis and St. Paul made it to the final round of the prestigious awards ...

These tater tots, one of the last remaining vestiges of the dill pickle trend that dominated the Fair’s past new foods lists in 2022 and 2023, are very straightforward, in a good way. They’re ...

Jeffy Mai is the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. As summer rolls on, the Twin Cities continue to welcome a bunch of new ...

“There’s nothing here that looks like the Moulin Rouge,” says Fhima. “The Moulin Rouge inspiration is a time: Laissez les bons temps rouler. [Let the good times roll.]” Fhima had the idea for the ...