Rachel Hutton

Chatterbox Café: A group of culinary hotshots puts the buzz back in the Town Talk.

Will Brenda Langton’s Spoonriver make healthy food hip?

Jun Bo, Richfield’s sprawling new Chinese restaurant, serves the state’s most ambitious dim sum.

From four-posters to fainting couches, English-style buttered “soldiers” to breakfasts bound up in brown paper, we’ve found nine restful retreats—plus one with an outhouse—where you can get your relax on.

WHEN YOU WALK INTO MARIA’S CAFÉ, you feel as if the owner, Maria Hoyos, has welcomed you into her living room. A stack of Gente de Minnesota Spanish-language newspapers sits next to the counter...