Lowertown Food & Drink News
News about Lowertown’s restaurants, bars, and cafes. Browse places in the Food & Drink section of our online guide.
May 1, 2022 | COVID-19 News, Features, Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News, Lowertown.info Announcements, News, Podcasts
Lowertown.info was launched in 2014 as an online visitor’s guide, news magazine, and community information portal serving the arts neighborhood of Lowertown, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The site also served as a place of record of the changes Lowertown went through in the last decade. The site created special archives relating to the gentrification of the neighborhood—the JAX Wake, Domination Corporation, interviews with Lowertown pioneers, the pandemic on top of the existing struggles of an artistic community—for those interested in what happened to Lowertown. This project and its associated Twitter feeds will be wrapping up by 1 May 2022. I can’t thank enough the people who supported this project over the years—artists, individual community members, galleries, and local performing collectives…. Thank you so much.
February 18, 2022 | COVID-19 News, Features, Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News, Podcasts
Welcome to the second episode of “This Is #Lowertown”, a podcast created by Lowertown.info—an online visitor’s guide, news magazine, and community information portal serving the arts neighborhood of Lowertown, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hosted by the editor of Lowertown.info, Nigel Parry, this show was recorded on 18th February, 2022. This podcast has been relaunched with a music focus to support Lowertown’s performing artists, which has the added bonus of also making it easier to produce regular episodes. Our main news feature looks at the closing of the Black Dog Café and music from Lowertown musicians and bands, including Eric Carranza and Jest, Steve Kenny, Goodnight Ritual, Jerry Kosak, and Pocket of Resistance.
February 2, 2022 | Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Saint Paul Farmers’ Market—The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market in Lowertown will host its annual “Super Bowl Saturday” celebration on Saturday, February 12 from 9am-1pm with a “Super Chili Sampler” and vendors with local foods and all the fixings for a festive Game Day celebration at home. The day’s activities will include a food drive for Neighborhood House in which shoppers are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item to donate.
January 14, 2022 | Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Lowertown.info—At the beginning of the year, the Black Dog Coffee & Wine Bar in Lowertown posted a simple notice on its front doors announcing that the Lowertown, Saint Paul hub was closing permanently. The poster added a date for the cafe’s final goodbye to the neighborhood—on Saturday, January 15th—the last night of Steve Kenny’s popular “Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog” series at the 23-year-old community venue. Come down and say goodbye to the end of an era.
January 3, 2022 | Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Lowertown.info—On January 2nd, 2022, the Black Dog Coffee & Wine Bar in Lowertown posted a simple notice on its front doors announcing that the Lowertown, Saint Paul hub was closing permanently. It is hard to overstate the importance of the venue to artists, musicians, and the community over the last 20 years.
November 7, 2021 | Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
European Christmas Market—The European Christmas Market in St. Paul is the most authentic traditional holiday market of its kind in Minnesota, offering a unique shopping experience, family-friendly entertainment & intercultural activities. Shop for handmade European crafts or unique gifts from local vendors, drink Glühwein (spiced mulled wine), and taste European inspired delicacies during four weekends in November and December. Opening Day: Black Friday, November 26, 2021, runs until Sunday, December 19, 2021.
October 13, 2021 | Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market will host two weekends of fun, free Halloween happenings for kids. On October 23 and 24 from 9am-12pm, the downtown Lowertown market will host its annual Pumpkin Decorating Station. The following weekend, October 30-31 from 9am-1pm, all Saint Paul Farmers’ Market locations will host Trick-or-Treating festivities for kids. The markets are brimming with pumpkins, gourds, seasonal produce, autumn flowers and plants, honey, meats, cheese, eggs, baked goods, and more. The Lowertown market location also has live music each weekend and free coffee until 9am, and hungry shoppers will find numerous cooked foods available for purchase from market favorites Chef Earls’ BBQ, Golden’s Bagels, Natasha’s Pierogis, and Minnebun’s steamed Bao buns, as well as delicious donuts.
March 5, 2021 | Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Lowertown.info—Alicia Hinze of Lowertown’s cafe, bakery and breakfast spot The Buttered Tin is one of 20 women in the restaurant industry featured in the James Beard Foundation’s new cookbook, A Place at the Table, published in collaboration with Audi and released at the beginning of Women’s History Month. The digital cookbook—free for download on James Beard’s site!—features twenty recipes from the foundation’s Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership program. Hinze’s recipe is for “The Perfect Vanilla Cake with Swiss Meringue Cream”.
February 8, 2021 | Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Though we’ve been put through the ringer… we can’t be kept down for long! We are so thrilled to share our next step with you. We scrounged our cash together and bought a food truck! Well, right now it’s sort of just a truck. That’s where you come in. We have called upon your kindness before and are asking once again for your support during this next phase. We’ll be bringing a few just/us menu favorites back, in addition to lots of new items with a street food flair. We’re working towards partnering with breweries, local events, and business parks to park & serve at all around the Twin Cities and maybe even beyond.
November 23, 2020 | COVID-19 News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market in Lowertown announced Friday that it will hold its Winter Market entirely outdoors from December until April, featuring 15-20 vendors each weekend. Downtown Winter Market: December 5th-April 17th (Saturdays from 9am-1pm): The Winter Market will remain outdoors throughout the winter, until April when the outdoor growing season market begins.
November 18, 2020 | COVID-19 News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Nigel Parry—According to Yelp data from the end of August 2020, permanent restaurant closures have reached 97,966, representing 60% of closed businesses that will never reopen. The double-whammy, of course, is that many members of the Lowertown community rely on these businesses for income, both as employees but also as artists and musicians who rely on physical spaces to host their public shows and performances.
September 26, 2020 | COVID-19 News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
By Nigel Parry, Lowertown.info—At 7pm tonight, local cafe and bakery The Buttered Tin posted an announcement that “We are temporarily closing” on its website and social media after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. The staff member had become aware of exposure to a positive room mate, and had self-quarantined from work during this last week while awaiting their test result. A few hours after finding out the positive result, the Buttered Tin informed staff it would be closing and made the public announcement:
At The Buttered Tin, our highest priority if the health and safety of our customers and employees. We are reaching out to inform you that today, we learned that a member of our TBT team tested positive COVID-19. Out of an abundance of caution, The Buttered Tin will temporarily close beginning Sunday, Sept. 27th….”
April 14, 2020 | Lowertown Food & Drink News
The Saint Paul Downtown Alliance has launched a Bingo card featuring local businesses that remain open for takeaway, delivery—or simply have gift cards to sell—as a way of supporting local Downtown and Lowertown businesses during the shutdown resulting from the Coronavirus ‘Stay at Home order’ in Minnesota.
January 8, 2020 | Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
Just/Us—It’s been a long, grueling road to get this place up and running. But we finally made it, y’all! Now it’s time to celebrate. We’re throwing a WEEKEND LONG PARTY from Friday, January 10th – Sunday, January 12th and you and your mom and her weird boyfriend Donnie are all invited. Seriously though, bring the whole crew and hang out with us. So many of you were integral to helping us get this place open – whether it be physically, emotionally, digitally, or all of those things. This is your celebration too!
October 30, 2019 | Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
By Nigel Parry, Downtown St. Paul Voice—After opening in downtown at the end of 2017, Just/Us took the St. Paul restaurant scene by storm with a rolling series of creatively themed prix fixe tasting menus. Following the sale of the building they were located in, the team of Lowertowners are reopening in the former Golden’s space this November.
October 5, 2019 | Lowertown Food & Drink News
Beginning October 17th, the Saint Paul Farmers Market is coming to Union Depot! The Market and Depot have teamed up to host an indoor work-week farmers market every Thursday from 10am–1:30pm. Stop by Union Depot to shop locally-grown produce, baked goods, jams and jellies, honey, eggs, chocolates, sauces, and more! The Market will be setup in the historic Head House just a few steps from Union Depot Bar & Grill and Java Express.
August 7, 2019 | Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News
KSTP—Downtown St. Paul is growing, but one neighborhood is facing some growing pains. The population of downtown has doubled over the last decade. Even with more people moving into the Lowertown neighborhood, several bars and restaurants have closed over the last year. World of Beer, a pub near Mears Park, shut down last month. The Saint Paul Downtown Alliance expects the population to double downtown over the next decade. KSTP’s Joe Mazan reports.
April 24, 2019 | Lowertown Food & Drink News
Love fresh fruits and veggies? The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market’s downtown outdoor market in Lowertown opens for the season on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The popular market will be open weekends through Nov. 24. Hours are 7am-1pm on Saturdays and 8am-1pm on Sundays. Video by KARE 11. (3:09 mins)
September 10, 2015 | Lowertown Food & Drink News
WCCO’s Jason DeRusha Eats at Saint Dinette where a fine dining chef is becoming known for a cheeseburger. First broadcast on WCCO’s show This Morning, on September 10th, 2015. Jason co-anchors WCCO This Morning weekdays from 4:30am-7am, WCCO Mid-Morning from 9-10am, and WCCO 4 News At Noon. He is also the station’s food reporter, producing “DeRusha Eats”.
