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Dining With Dara: The Restaurant As Bohemian Paradise

Posted at 1:38 PM on September 22, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Dining with Dara

Ever worked in a restaurant? Jill and I are willing to bet it wasn't all fluffy clouds and rainbows; usually, the grind of a restaurant is predominently stressful and often cynical, with only the occasional touches of fun (much less anything resembling personal fulfillment). Our resident food goddess Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl, however, has discovered a local restaurant where the staff attacks their craft with a passion and drive usually reserved for beat poets and abstract expressionist painters: Travail, in Robbinsdale. The waiters and the chefs are one in the same, they come with ample tattoos and DIY sensibility, and they serve shockingly affordable food whose recipes have been borne from an almost perverse dedication to pure, unadulterated culinary joy. Dara's article in this month's Minnesota Monthly was our starting point ... below is the audio link to hear this morning's radio segment.

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