Eater Twin Cities’ 2024 Eater Award Winners | Eater Twin Cities
"A buzzy, swanky restaurant with evident heart, opened by industry veterans who literally pitched investors with pop-up dinners in a co-owner’s St. Louis park home, buying their own glassware and linens and whipping elegant meals out of a few overstuffed coolers. They brought on Rachel McLeod of Cornelius Pasta Co. to helm a sun-filled, flour-dusted pasta room; McLeod is, in the owners’ view, operating in a realm “somewhere between a three-Michelin-star chef and a true pasta granny,” as Rolle puts it. The kitchen turns out canonical, soulful pasta: doppio stuffed with sweet sunchoke and ricotta; agnolotti bursting with braised short rib, parmesan crema, and red wine jus. The room pairs a punchy, shell-pink aesthetic and a punk-rock soundtrack with a finely tuned beverage program — cocktails as compelling as its nonalcoholic spritzes, fragrant botanical tonics, licorice root Shirley Temples, and dandelion pours — making the place feel like a destination that balances electric atmosphere with real culinary rigor." - Justine Jones
