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	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Who Has the Metro’s Best Fish & Chips?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/April-2008/Who-Has-the-Metros-Best-Fish-Chips/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-04-24:2967</id><published>2008-04-24T03:41:30-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Upscale Indian Is Coming at Dancing Ganesha]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/April-2008/Upscale-Indian-Is-Coming-at-Dancing-Ganesha/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-04-17:2962</id><published>2008-04-17T03:49:54-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Top Chef</em> is Coming]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/April-2008/Top-Chef-is-Coming/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-04-15:2959</id><published>2008-04-15T10:24:40-05:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[]]></summary><category term="Arts and Entertainment" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Eat Cheap—or Eat Free]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/April-2008/Eat-Cheap-or-Eat-Free/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-04-10:2949</id><published>2008-04-10T08:37:26-05:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Spring Starts—Really!—on Friday]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/April-2008/Spring-Starts-Really-on-Friday/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-04-02:2903</id><published>2008-04-02T12:00:42-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-02T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Breaking News: Minneapolis (Almost) Sweeps Beard Awards!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/March-2008/Breaking-News-Minneapolis-Almost-Sweeps-Beard-Awards/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-03-24:2894</id><published>2008-03-24T03:49:01-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The James Beard Award nominees were released today, and, in a complete shocker, Minneapolis dominates the Best Chef Midwest category: Isaac Becker from 112 Eatery, Tim McKee from La Belle Vie, and Alex Roberts of Alma are all nominated, along with Milwaukee’s Adam Siegel and Kansas City’s Colby Garrelts.]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Easter Brunch Reservation Roundup!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/March-2008/Easter-Brunch-Reservation-Roundup/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-03-21:2893</id><published>2008-03-21T09:51:50-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Want to have Easter brunch at the St. Paul Grill? Then you better have your reservation well in hand or wait till next year—they’re sold-out. Yup, Easter is hot upon us (it’s this Sunday, March 23!) and the hottest brunch reservations are filling up quick: St. Paul Grill, gone.]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Best Cheap Lunches of the Metro, Part II]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/March-2008/Great-Cheap-Lunches-of-the-Metro-Part-II/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-03-18:2892</id><published>2008-03-18T01:33:10-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[After eating in the skyways for a couple months now, I finally, finally found something to recommend: The top-secret South Indian buffet that Bombay Bistro runs in the back-of-the- middle-of-nowhere Medical Arts Building.]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Marianne Miller]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/March-2008/Marianne-Miller/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-03-10:2758</id><published>2008-03-10T03:14:42-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-10T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[One of the most controversial opinions I’ve adopted since becoming a restaurant critic in Minnesota is this: I think Marianne Miller, the chef who opened and closed the wonderful, crazy Red—and then had a brief, spectacular, and then spectacularly messy exit from Bobino—is a home-grown genius, and an incredibly gifted chef.]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Feeding Frenzy: Porter and Frye]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/March-2008/Feeding-Frenzy-Porter-and-Frye/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-03-06:2748</id><published>2008-03-06T04:21:12-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[When I saw that Porter & Frye had opened, on February 21, I started writing a blog post wondering if local critics would give Steven Brown and his crew the standard six weeks to get on their feet before reviewing them. Then I got sidelined wondering what I myself would do.]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Best Cheap Lunches of the Metro, Part 1]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/February-2008/Best-Cheap-Lunches-of-the-Metro-Part-1/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-02-29:2746</id><published>2008-02-29T09:36:41-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[When I first thought about going to Korea Restaurant on the U of M’s East Bank campus I thought of titling my blog post, “My all-time most favoritest ever cheap lunch in Minnesota.” Then all my other favorite cheap lunches sprang to mind.]]></summary><category term="Restaurants and Bars" /></entry>
	<entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[I've landed!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Dear-Dara/February-2008/Post-1/"/><id>tag:www.minnesotamonthly.com,2008-02-21:2740</id><published>2008-02-21T11:56:26-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-21T12:00:00-05:00</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I’ve landed! Despite <em>City Pages</em>' efforts to bury the news, I did not in fact leave there for some literary paradise in the sky, I’m just right here at <em>Minnesota Monthly</em>.]]></summary><category term="Arts and Entertainment" /></entry>
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