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  • 4 days ago | startribune.com | Jon Cheng

    "Good food or good company. Which do you choose?" a friend once asked. My dining companion grimaced, then we both laughed because we knew it was true.

  • Jan 5, 2025 | startribune.com | Jon Cheng

    This year’s winners – Bûcheron, Diane’s Place and Vinai – are distinctly Minnesotan.

  • Nov 29, 2024 | startribune.com | Jon Cheng

    Chef Jason Sawicki melds culture, comfort and fire to put his own stamp on northeast Minneapolis dining. November 29, 2024 at 1:00PMChef-owner Jason Sawicki works the hearth at his Minneapolis restaurant, Black Duck Spirits & Hearth. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Like at any easygoing restaurant, the menu of the low-slung, white tavern building in Northeast offers oysters, smash burgers, waffle fries and a Caesar.

  • Nov 7, 2024 | startribune.com | Jon Cheng

    When I arrived in the Twin Cities three years ago, I gave myself a year. Though I spent my formative childhood years in Singapore, my family hailed from Hong Kong. And after leaving my “home” country to attend college, I’ve spent no more than a few years in each city: Boston, London, the Bay Area and New York, where I was for five. “Where are you from?” is a question that often stumped me.

  • Oct 24, 2024 | startribune.com | Jon Cheng

    The Minneapolis restaurant is a window to the chef’s past as it charts the cuisine’s future. October 24, 2024 at 12:00PMChef Yia Vang poses for a portrait in his new restaurant Vinai in Minneapolis. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune)The wood-burning grill that takes center stage of an open kitchen is a gleaming, magnificent beast flanked by two bumper car-sized wheels — a hangar for various meats, engulfed in flames that swell like bonfires.

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