The recently published list of 38 "essential" restaurants selected by Bill Addison at Eater featured Heartland, located near the Farmers' Market in St. Paul, MN. Chef Lenny Russo has been recognized with a nomination for Best Chef in the Midwest by the James Beard Foundation in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. Addison captures the experience [...]
Tag: Great Lakes Cuisine
Red Cabbage – Rotkohl-Style
My grandmother on my mother’s side was German, and my great grandmother was really German, Bavarian royalty somewhere in the lineage. I think that may explain why we served the sweet and sour red cabbage dish known as Rotkohl with our Thanksgiving turkey. I have taken up the tradition and modified it a bit over [...]
Belgian Braised Beef
This deep, rich beef dish, is prepared with two cuts of beef, vegetables, mushrooms, and nut brown ale. To stick it closer to the Belgian tradition, perhaps a Duvel should be the choice, but we're preparing it to our Great Lakes Cuisine standards, so a Great Lakes regional brew is the choice. We chose Ale [...]
A Belgian Beauty – Booyah
Light the fire at sunrise; it’s ready at sundown. But only on the perfect autumn days somewhere near Green Bay, Wisconsin, as the crisp chill startles you awake when you walk outside. When the sun isn’t up yet, but the horizon is the pale blue of promise, trees stand as black silhouettes against the sky [...]
New Restaurant Added – Storyhill BKC, Milwaukee, WI
We have discussed before the difficulty in parsing what fits and what does not in Great Lakes Cuisine. Hopefully, we have been clear this site is not a review of "The Best of the Great Lakes", it is specifically not intended as a restaurant review site. We are not claiming an exhaustive list of the [...]
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