I’m sure a lot of you have already tried Groupon, based on the emails I receive from friends passing along offers that they find particularly interesting. For those of you not already familiar with the service, it’s a new spin on couponing where the service posts one offer a day (on their website and via [...]
I really like Urbanspoon as a service for keeping track of restaurants I’ve been to and ones I want to track. Variety is one of the things I like when it comes to dining. One of the cool features the site offers is a news feed, where you can see what restaurants your friends have [...]
Smore Cupcake with a Side of Minneapolis Skyline, originally uploaded by edkohler. The Bedlam Theater’s rooftop patio is among the best in the city. What’s so good about it: – Beer – Cupcakes – Free WiFi – On the LRT – and LRT bike path – $3 good beer during HH – $2 Hamm’s on [...]
John Moe’s Candy Club on Twitter cracks me up. In a nutshell, once a week, John and his fellow candy enthusiasts pick a candy to all try at the same time on Twitter, then tweet about their experiences with it. You can follow along on Twitter’s search engine by searching for the #candyclub hashtag. The [...]
What what I’ve heard, the window on the side of the new Dairy Queen near Minnehaha Park is going to be used as a bike drive thru. As far as I know, this is the first of its kind in Minneapolis. I can imagine this filling up with families in their 6-person bike rentals from [...]
I’m not sayin’ that Canadians like Tim Horton’s. I’m just sayin’ that I can see a Tim Horton’s from a Tim Horton’s. Check the background on the right. Tim’s has a couple quirks. They only credit card they take is MasterCard, so it’s like the opposite of the Olympics, which kind of makes sense for [...]
I’ve had a few conversations with people recently who’ve mentioned that El Norteno has been rather dark during normal restaurant business hours lately. This caused some concern that they may have shut their doors. However, upon closer inspection, here is the explanation: To the ladies at El Norteno: sorry to hear about your father passing [...]
I don’t have kids or eat many kids meals at junk food restaurants, so I’m not particularly familiar with what places like Burger King have been peddling as food to children lately. But I recently became aware of what “kids meals” looks like these days after finding out that our fellow Minnesotans are responsible for [...]
Kate reminded me of an issue that’s interested me for a while now and deserves more attention. Baby carrots vs adult carrots. Adult Carrots at Seward Coop I also didn’t peel my carrots, and I’ve demanded baby carrots never enter my house again. You know they aren’t actually mini carrots right? They are just carrots [...]
Seward Coop is stocked up with Tofurky for Tofurky day. I’ve never tried it. Does the vegetarian giblet gravy kick it up a notch?
