Gleaming, polished wood. A roaring wood fire. Friendly service from beautiful people. This description may sound like an unreachable Aspen ski-lodge fantasy, but it actually portrays Uptown’s newest addition, The Lowry. Formerly a Hollywood Video, the location was completely transformed by local architecture and design firm Tanek this summer and is

  Andrew Zimmern, a food writer, chef, James Beard Award-winning TV personality (Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World) is not only one of the most recognizable and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. He happens to be a Twin Cities resident—and an advocate of sustainability and food-access equality.

Gentle reader, I have a confession to make: I like dirty hands. While this might cause you to revert to nightmares of unwashed post-bathroom germfests, fear not. The dirt of which I speak is the variety we stand upon, and in its best form it is something those of us