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The Buttered Tin’s Alicia Hinze featured in new James Beard Foundation cookbook (free for download!)

The Buttered Tin’s Alicia Hinze featured in new James Beard Foundation cookbook (free for download!)

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”.

Help the Just/Us Crew Build a Food Truck!

Help the Just/Us Crew Build a Food Truck!

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.

Just/Us reopening as restaurant, bar, venue, gallery, and community hub in former Golden’s Lowertown space

Just/Us reopening as restaurant, bar, venue, gallery, and community hub in former Golden’s Lowertown space

By Nigel Parry, Downtown St. Paul VoiceAfter 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.

Video: KSTP—St. Paul Lowertown neighborhood dealing with growing pains

Video: KSTP—St. Paul Lowertown neighborhood dealing with growing pains

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.

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