Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Category: Eating & Drinking (aka Restaurants)

  • Day Six of the Daily Dozen: Small Business Saturday: November 26th, 2011: Southwest Minneapolis

    Today’s daily dozen for Shop Small Saturday features Southwest Minneapolis thanks to the suggestion from @SW_Mpls. ONE:  Sewtropolis – A DIY sewing studio and fabric shop that features hard-to-get anywhere else fabrics, patterns, and notions (that’s sew-speak for buttons and zippers). On “Black Friday” they’re offering a fabulous kids’ sewing class. 5 West Diamond Lake…

  • Day Three of the Daily Dozen: Small Business Saturday, November 26, 2011, Textiles and Doughnuts, Oh My!

    I’m St. Paul’s biggest champion even if I’m not a native. I promise to list some businesses on the other side of the river tonight! Here’s Day Three of my Daily Dozen Small Businesses in St. Paul and Minneapolis. When I was a student in France about a million years ago, I spent a lot…

  • Mojo Monkey Doughnuts: The Newspaper or WOM?

    Thoughts of mango-glazed coconut doughnuts roused me this morning. En route to the farmer’s market (family in tow), I chanced a detour to Mojo Monkey Donuts on West 7th in St. Paul. Our beignets were delicious. The line was amazing. The wait…long. The selection…nil by 10 am. Why? Great press? See the Star Tribune (and…

  • #MNIrishFair Pub Fare Battle 8-11-11

      Sláinte to Cork’s Irish Pub of St. Paul. They won the Pub Fare Battle at last night’s opening Battle of the Pubs Cookoff at the Irish Fare of Minnesota. Last night on Twitter, I promised to say why they won: Their food was gooood! Braised greens, corned beef, and sausage. They had CHEFS! FIVE…

  • The One Mile Project: Espresso Royale and Road Construction Perks

    As I mentioned last week, I walk to work under gracious old trees. Depending on my route, I can stop at one of any 10 coffee shops. Given that the dew point hit 82 last week, hot coffee hasn’t been too appealing. However, one of my neighborhood coffee shops, Espresso Royale has the ultimate hot…

  • The University Avenue Project: On’s Thai Kitchen + Secrets of Navigation

    The food was sooooo good I forget to take pictures. And it was beautiful. Thai food always has a visual aesthetic, but even our mixed up salads were gorgeous — imagine little squid tentacles bathed in lime juice and chili with lots of cilantro. 17 people on Yelp agree with me, granting On’s a 4…

  • One (big) Mile Project: India House

    My 8 year old loves Tandori chicken. His brother hates Indian food, the rest of us love it, or at least tolerate it. The “hater” was off eating pizza with friends, so the rest of us visited Restaurant.com and landed on India House (758 Grand Avenue, St Paul, MN 55105). Bland and greasy. I didn’t…

  • The University Avenue Project: How many places can YOU visit?

    It must be the heat, but no one felt like cooking and everyone wanted a cold, spicy Thai salad. We ventured outside of the round-square, aka The One Mile Project and headed to University Avenue. If you live in Minnesota you really know that there are truly only two seasons, winter and road construction. It’s…

  • The One Mile Project: Palumbo’s Pizzeria

    Friday night we walked to Palumbo’s Pizzeria at 454 Snelling Avenue South, Saint Paul, MN 55105 They don’t have a website per se, but you can like them on Facebook. Awesome pizza. I love Punch, Grandpa Tony’s, Carbone’s, the Italian Pie Shoppe, Cosetta’s, the Red Savoy and just about every independent pizza restaurant in the Saintly…

  • The One Mile Project — Dining in a One Mile Circle in St. Paul

    I have to credit my husband with this idea. We were (once again) talking how much we loved St. Paul and he suggested we pick an area and try something new from there each week. Given that I already spend a lot of time at St. Kate’s, we opted for the area around Macalester College…