Twin Cities Food Tour

 

Our September date was the Twin Cities Food Tour.  The weather was absolutely perfect and the food was delicious.  Unfortunately, in an effort to look cute, I wore boots with heels and after walking 2-3 miles over the course of 3 hours, my feet were killing me!

We started at a fun little place whose inspiration was the Chinese open markets.  They wanted people to get fresh, locally grown, organic foods available daily at the same location.  Their cheese was amazing!

As we walked, our tour guide gave us a lot of historical information including this iconic sign.  We walked by the national reserve bank and learned about a cute little island that still exists down town.  It used to be where the women were taken to give birth to keep them safe from wild animals and to have the nearby waterfalls drown out their screams during labor and delivery.

This train is crossing the river to the island.

I loved this salad and pizza from Punch Pizza.  They get many of their ingredients shipped from Italy.  Their wood burning bell oven gets 800 degrees and they only have to cook the pizza for 8 seconds!

We went to Kramarczuk’s European deli and enjoyed perogies and polish sausage.  Yum!

Then we went to a restaurant that served food from Nepal.  It was probably my least favorite but still worth trying.  We ate buffalo momos (used to be yak but the farmers sold their yak so we got buffalo).

Our last stop was called Gardens of Salonica.  It is a Greek restaurant where we enjoyed three different desserts including baklava.  It was good but too flaky for my taste.

At the end of the day, we learned a lot about down town Minneapolis and had a great afternoon trying new things together.