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Local Dining 11.19.08
Camacho Watcho: Wilde Roast Cafe
We Got Served: jasmine 26
Foodie File: Donatelli's: Putting Guy Fieri to the Test
Lazy Lightning: Upcoming Reviews
Aaron: Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza
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I heart Jasimin 26. The staff is great, the atmosphere is nice, and the salt and pepper tofu is so good it will blow your mind. It's one of my favorite restaurants in the Twin Cities.
Here's a tip from Alexis that ought to make The Rat squeak in joy -- a gay piano bar opening up near his hood.
Tickles (I'm not kidding!) is in the place where the long closed Margaria Bella used to be -- and odd little one-way spur of Spring Street, just east of Central in NE Mpls.
Max, it's *upcoming* reviews, not *uptown* reviews.
Uh-oh. Looks like the Lambert-Zimmern wars are starting again: I witnessed firsthand how big celebs, such as Brian Lambert, get treated at Morton's during the lunch rush. Adam Platt and I waited patiently for our table (in the back in the bar) while Lambert enjoyed STAR service, with waiters busily ferrying to and from his table with platters of fresh food, freebies, and more genuflecting than you will ever see outside of the Basilica on Sunday morning. Every patron in the place stopped at his table, kissed his ring, and tried to pry hot gossip out of him and his lunchmate (the Strib's Kristin Tillotson). Adam and I sat in the back, largely ignored, humbly eating our salads and wishing we were up front where all the action was.
Fixed uptown to upcoming.
I call bullshit on Zimmern being ignored because he's not as big as Lambert. Maybe they just don't like his show.
I've got to get to Jasmine 26. Tara, you've mentioned that tofu before.
Thanks for the Local Dining post, Max!
Zimmern: welcome to our world.
Zimmern is an occassional commentor on MnSpeak.
Whoops. The rest of my comment:
So maybe he'll have something to say about being ignored while waiters buzz around local media celebs.
Do people even know what Lambert looks like? I read his stuff regularly and I couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Maybe it was Tillotson who was drawing all of the attention.
Looks more like the DeRusha-Lambert wars in the comments.
I have been singing the praises of Donatelli's for years- even introduced Andrew Zimmern to it. It's one of my absolute favorite places to eat in the metro area and I do drive across town for it about once a month. The Pink Panther decor, ice cream case, sauces to go, 25-cent black and white table TVs and soda fountain drinks are cherries on top of totally crave-worthy, hearty Italian-American comfort food (not to mention the biggest menu I've ever seen in a restaurant).
Jane, if you want to go sometime, give me a jingle!
As far as I can tell, Lambert sort of looks like David Lynch and Robert Redford had a baby.
Adding in a review Aaron did of Black Sheep pizza.
I wonder if the thought "but don't you know who I am?" ran through Z's head.
Hee!
That man has a huge sense of entitlement, doesn't he. It is very much a "I deserve attention" post, which pretty much makes him look like a 5 year old.
I have to agree with him on the Sandra Lee thing, though. The word "tablescape" makes me want to kick something to death.
I want to land on a tablescape in a rocketplate. It just sounds so science fictiony!
Max, look out, my foot is twitching...
Anyway, I'm sure he meant that blurb to be tongue-in-cheek, but it just comes off as whineycribaby/sour-grapes/over-entitled douchebaggery.
Maybe the wait staff was peev'd at Zimmern's political ranting before the election? You gotta admit that the usual Morton's crowd probably doesn't vote "blue" very often. lol
that ought to make The Rat squeak in joy -- a gay piano bar opening up near his hood. Tickles (I'm not kidding!)
Whathehell do you think you know about me?!
Looks more like the DeRusha-Lambert wars in the comments.
I love it when DeRush plays the tough guy.
Come on Rat, we all know you like piano bars.
Whathehell do you think you know about me?!
Which buttons to push to make you squeak. Just a little jest, my friend. ;-) Please don't be offended.
It doesen't really sound like my kind of place either, Rat, but it good to see that empty building finding new life.
A guy sings a couple Show Tunes, and suddenly the rumor mill starts.
That's The Rat we all know and love...
I think the comments are pretty damn funny. The local "famous" really do have problems, don't they.
If this were a similar fight in my line of work it would go like this:
"I can't believe that woman from Hennepin County got a free pickle at Jimmy Johns."
Then we would bitch in the comments about how Hennepin thinks they run the State.
Wait, people get free pickles at Jimmy Johns? Bastards.
Not very hard to get a free pickle at the 10th Street JJ's downtown. Just tell them you were supposed to get a pickle when they hand you your sammie. They rarely have any idea what you actually paid for.
That and they owe me for the many times I have paid for hot pepper and never received them.
9th Street?
I watched some Bizarre Foods last night during timeouts of the FANTASTIC Oklahoma-Davidson hoops game (god, I wish I could shoot like that Curry kid).
I have to say that while I enjoy
Zimmern's food opinions, watching him gnaw at a lobster surfside is reminiscent of watching bovine birthing videos.
Re: Zimmern's food blog.
"Plus, a culinary death match with dozens of local Portland chefs, a day of lobstering with Linda Greenlaw, and, of course, plenty of moose and beaver."
Andrew, did you get a Palinoscopy?
could Aaron Landry's regular-guy pizza blogging be any more timely? I mean, it's like he foretold the collapse of expense account dining as wrought by Wall Street. I wonder if he has any stock tips for us? Also, till waiting for his book on the Incredible Revolutionary Pizza Diet.
Damn you, aliecat... totally onto my faux-attack on Lambert.
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