Twin 🌃 Taste Test: Passed w/flying Curds

Time for a night out on the town in Minneapolis to kick off our final evening here!

We’ve seen an episode (or five) of Hell’s Kitchen, so when we realized there was a restaurant by the same name in downtown Minneapolis—no relation to Gordon Ramsay, but full of bold flavors—we had to give it a try.

We started with the State Fair Cheese Curds—lightly beer-battered, fried to a crispy, gooey golden brown, and served with their housemade sweet and spicy red pepper jelly. As one proud Wisconsinite once wrote on the menu, “The BEST cheese curds… and I’m a Wisconsin cheesehead!” We can now confirm: Arnie from Milwaukee knows what he’s talking about.

For our main course, we split the Ham & Pear Crisp Sandwich—shaved, slow-roasted pit ham, sliced pears, melted Swiss and fontina cheese on spicy-sweet, buttered and grilled sourdough bread. And because you can’t have a proper night out without tots, we added a side of Pancho Dry Rub Tater Tots to round it out.

We told our server we had a show to catch afterward, and they got everything out fast—without skimping on flavor. So when they say, “Damn Good Food… Pretty Dang Fast,” they mean it!

Next stop: The Dakota for some live jazz to end the night on a high note. 🎷Read more