BY CARLA WALDEMAR Arezzo 5057 France Avenue 612-285-7444 arezzoristorante.com Can’t make it to Tuscany this summer? Me neither. But to savor a taste of the region’s dolce vita, head over to Edina’s 51st & France (no passport, no euros needed) to inhale its wine-and-dining way of life at Arezzo, boasting…
BY FRANKLIN CURBELO U.S and Cuba reopen embassies Fifty-four years have passed since President Eisenhower broke relations with Cuba, in 1961. From that moment on, Cuba has been in the cross-hairs of the United States as it aimed to bring about the downfall of the Cuban Revolution through U.S.-sponsored terrorism;…
BY ED FELIEN Recently BuzzFeed named Minnesota the Most Hipster State in the U.S., and City Pages named Seward as the most hipster neighborhood. Would that make Franklin Avenue Hipster Boulevard? BuzzFeed used these criteria to evaluate hipsterness: The Lumberjack Look—New Yorkers try to look like Minnesotans by wearing flannel,…
BY ED FELIEN Highland Village was the home of the first European settlement in the Minnesota Territory. When the U.S. government established Fort Snelling at the juncture of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, in 1819, a small settlement of Swiss and French-Canadian immigrants grew up around it. Eventually the settlement…
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Lela 5601 W. 78th St., Bloomington 952-656-5980 lelarestaurant.com Remember Chez Colette at the Hotel Sofitel? Well, both are ancient history in the hospitality industry archives. And French food is so yesterday (as I weep). The hotel at Hwys. 100 and 494 is now a Sheraton, and Collette—with…
