Natalia Mendez is a journalist, writer, photographer, and instructor living in Minneapolis, who has written about the outdoors and local tourism for over 12 years. Welcome to the Eater Twin Cities ...

The Minnesota State Fair’s annual new food list is reliably huge (there are 34 official new dishes this year, down from last year’s 38) and peppered with delightfully wacky, cheesy, skewered, melty, ...

Sarah Webster Norton’s hands are steady as she inverts the small glass vial and punctures its rubber seal with a needle. She draws the liquid — a clear, water-based solution of naloxone hydrochloride ...

Nylah Iqbal Muhammad is a James Beard Award-nominated food and travel journalist with work focusing on hunting, food sovereignty, and Black and North American Indigenous foodways. Take a moment to ...

Peer into Bûcheron’s semi-open kitchen — the pizza window, a relic from the building’s past life as corner slice shop Lufrano’s, has been expanded behind the bar — and you’ll see chefs rolling fresh ...

Owamni made a momentous win at this evening’s James Beard Awards: The iconic, full-service Indigenous restaurant was named the best new restaurant of 2022. Co-owned by chef Sean Sherman and Dana ...

Cinnamon Janzer is a Minneapolis-based independent writer with an affinity for the Great Plains, who publishes place-based, narrative nonfiction stories in a variety of local, national, and ...

Jeffy Mai is the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. Welcome to the Opening Report, a curated roundup of recent restaurant ...

Petite León opened in Minneapolis’ Kingfield neighborhood at a time when most people were staying home to stay safe, and restaurants were pivoting to whatever they could do to stay afloat. Behind the ...

“Everybody wanted to talk about the product market here in Minnesota, mainly the [THC] beverages,” says Leili Fatehi, a Minneapolis-based attorney and consultant who helped quarterback the state’s ...

Jeffy Mai is the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. As summer rolls on, the Twin Cities continue to welcome a bunch of new ...

Alligator meat is a rarity up here, so head to Bayou Bob’s for a taste of the sharp-toothed animal. Not only do they serve alligator ribs, you can get yours on-a-stick (of course), popcorn-style and ...