Comments on: This is why I love Broders’ Pasta Bar

By: This Is Why I Love Minneapolis » Restaurant Week prologue

This Is Why I Love Minneapolis » Restaurant Week prologue — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:36:30 +0000

[...] As I’ve already confessed, I am not a trained food… anything. However, I have the unrivaled advantage of having eaten well over a thousand restaurant meals in 40 countries in the past six years. Furthermore, there’s the not so small matter of my singular physical response to food, an effect akin to (I’m told) certain intravenous drugs or having a primary erogenous zone dipped into a just-baked apple pie. Harnessing this unique aptitude, I will do my very best to transcribe these feelings into hastily written, short reviews or, failing that, lift quotes from the people around me and make them my own by adding metaphorical superlatives and ‘that’s what she said’ jokes. [...]

By: This Is Why I Love Minneapolis » This is why I love the Capital Grille’s cheeseburger (and Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl)

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:27:40 +0000

[...] devout friends that accompany you on your various restaurant visits, and I further admit to knowing precious little about food in general, but I think after reading the above you’ll agree that I have a singular physical response to [...]

By: Mother’s Day Breakfast at Broders’ | Minneapolis Metblogs

Mother’s Day Breakfast at Broders’ | Minneapolis Metblogs — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:15:56 +0000

[...] they’re going to be swamped all day on Sunday. But really, it’s soooo worth it. (See, Leif agrees with me.) So as highly as I’d recommend Broders’, good luck getting in [...]

By: leif

leif — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:25:22 +0000

I asked for the number 11 once, they gave me two number 1s. That’s what I get for practicing my Italian in Minnesota.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:04:26 +0000

Yes, you must try the quadrucci con pollo, asparagi ed aceto balsamico (or, as i call it, the number 11). I have been going to Broder’s often since moving here five years ago, and I have a really hard time ordering anything BUT the no. 11. Heaven in a bowl, I tell you.

By: leif

leif — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:24:33 +0000

Strangely enough, I don’t think I have ever had a meatball sandwich in my life. Am I going to Hell?

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:47:34 +0000

Meatball sandwiches. I never get past them.