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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

These tater tots, one of the last remaining vestiges of the dill pickle trend that dominated the Fair’s past new foods lists in 2022 and 2023, are very straightforward, in a good way. They’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

The elotes at Tejas Express were a big-hit new Fair food item when they debuted in 2018, but I’m recycling them here for anyone who missed them on the first go-around. The State Fair’s uber-popular ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been a wild ride for 4 Bells, the Southern-leaning eatery at the edge of Loring Park that first officially opened in 2015. The restaurant replaced the former occupant of the address, Joe’s ...

Hernandez runs Lito’s Burritos out of El Tejaban — he serves burritos from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., and at 3 p.m. the restaurant switches over to its usual menu. Lito’s offers a number of simple ...

I learned too late that axe throwing is a serious game — in my mind it had always been a concept; a bit of lumberjack cosplay. But there I was at Smash Park in suburban Roseville, Minnesota, knee-deep ...