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Dining With Dara: Could Mpls Shoot For The Tippy-Top?

Posted at 8:16 AM on March 30, 2011 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Dining with Dara

One of the true happy endings of past year is Minneapolis restaurant Heidi's - after it's original local burned down in 2010, Heidi's was reborn in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood this year. Our trusty food authority Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl joined us today to talk about Chef Stewart Woodman's belief that he can have one of the world's top 50 restaurants in Minneapolis. "Is that possible?" she asks. "What would it take? Is it just food & a perfect restaurant (just!) or do you need a shtick - Noma, current best restaurant in the world, is all about local Scandinavian lost ingredients, for instance. The last great restaurants were all either farm-driven nose-to-tail (Fat Duck) or molecular gastronomy (El Bulli.) What can we do here that no one else can do? / No one else has done? It's audacious to think about..."


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