Met a friend early (8:00 a.m.) to cycle to an unassuming bakery in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul. Trung Nam, owned by a Vietnamese family, makes some of the best croissants in town. They sell out fast, hence the early start.
Category: Eat
Lobster Roll
Cycled with friends to dinner in a traditional Nordeast Minneapolis neighborhood bar, 1029 Bar. Feasted on their specialty: “top-rated lobster roll in the nation.”
Grateful for Normal
Grateful for Normal. Cycled to Longfellow Grill for lunch. The vaccines keep on giving.
Breakfast Sandwich with a View
Cycled over to Lake Harriet for a breakfast sandwich with a view at Bread and Pickle.
Not Norwegian Food
With Dwight in Fargo, visiting his mom, eating Norwegian food, I continued my ramen journey. Zen Box Izakaya, near our home, does a fine tonkotsu ramen, but they only serve al fresco for now. It was magic to select an Asahi draft on my phone, and for it to appear a minute later.
Grateful for a Restaurant Lunch
I no longer take for granted being able walk into a restaurant and order a ramen bowl. Grateful for lunch at moto-i.
Gorp
Stocked up on gorp ingredients to fuel upcoming hikes: cashews, granola, pistachios, Asian rice crackers, sesame sticks, wasabi peas, generic M&M’s, raisins, and dried pineapple.
Beer and Bar Food
Beer and bar food for dinner at Longfellow’s. Life’s good.
Carma Coffee
Pit stop, Carma Coffee.
Mushy Peas
Picked up ethnic foods at Lands End Pasty Company in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis: Cornish pasties, sausage rolls, and, drum roll please, a can of mushy peas. Takes me back to my childhood.