The Hottest New Restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul Right Now, November 2024

"Chef Jason Sawicki — known for the mean double-decker smash burger, sandwiches, paczki, and handmade pierogi he served from Minneapolis’s Fare Game food truck over the past several years — has finally opened his permanent restaurant, Black Duck Spirits & Hearth, after being deterred by pandemic-related setbacks. Black Duck is all about wood-fired cooking “from the hearth”: Expect skillfully prepared meat-and-potato dishes; whole fish in mole verde; artful pierogies in rotating varieties; and raw elements like oysters and tartare with smoked bone marrow aioli." - Eater Staff