Considering the wonders that pastry chef Carrie Summer works in her mobile trailer, Chef Shack, it’s no surprise that the sweets she creates in a full-size kitchen are our favorite in the Twin Cities. Summer, formerly of Cue, Spoonriver, and several lauded coastal restaurants, designs all the desserts for Bruce Taher’s restaurants: the Wayzata, Alaska, […]
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By David Duff Paul Laubignat left his home in Quiberon, Brittany, France in 1963 to cook at the first French hotel in the United States, The Sofitel in Bloomington. In a sense, he never left us even though he whirled through employment at Hyatt Regency in Hawaii, Watertower Hyatt in Chicago, La Tortue restaurant on […]
Occupation: Chef, Forepaugh’s (276 S. Exchange St., St. Paul; 651-224-5606, forepaughs.com) Age: 38 How did you wind up in the restaurant business? I grew up on a lot of different foods. I have British and Mexican grandmothers, and my step-dad’s mom is Puerto Rican. They taught me how to cook. I’ve worked in several kitchens, […]
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal – by John Vomhof Jr. Staff Writer Taher Inc. has acquired Timber Lodge Steakhouse Inc. The restaurant chain has 10 locations, eight of which are in Minnesota. Minnetonka-based Taher Inc., led by founder and CEO Bruce Taher, provides foodservice management for schools, senior-housing facilities and corporate cafeterias in 10 […]
Steve Rice, Star Tribune Forepaugh’s, in an 1870 mansion in St. Paul’s Irvine Park, has undergone a sumptuous renovation under new owner Bruce Taher Rick Nelson’s first impressions of three new Twin Cities restaurants. A new look for an Irvine Park landmark As we poked our heads into one sumptuously appointed room after another at […]
Chef Jay Rommelfanger visited the kitchen of the Berne Union Schools cafeteria May 5 and 6 to prepare special entrees for student lunches. Rommelfanger, who lives in Oskosh, Wis., creates recipes and prepares food for Taher Foods, the company that provides food service for the school. Taher sends its corporate chefs to high-class restaurants in […]
Chef Jay Rommelfanger came to Deering Elementary to prepare a special lunch treat for the students and promote healthy eating. By Mark Shaffer/The Ironton Tribune Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:33 AM EDT It’s not easy getting kids to eat healthy food. Mention a vegetable and a parent is likely to get a disgusted look and […]
Address 6501 Wayzata Blvd., St. Louis Park, 952-345-0505 The Scene Don’t let the scenery along I-394 (used car lot, used exercise equipment store, Fuddruckers, Bennigans) dissuade you. Alaska Eatery outclasses this strip. Just follow the scent of wood smoke to the open kitchen where chefs sizzle steaks, chops, and fish over wood-fired grills. Inside, the […]
Along with its new Nordeast Eatery, (see Now Open on this page) there’s more to report on the ever-expanding Taher Inc. dining empire. The company has purchased St. Paul’s venerable Forepaugh’s (276 S. Exchange St., www.forepaughs.com ) and is planning lots of changes, starting with renovated dining rooms in the grand 1870 Victorian mansion and […]
A new restaurant proves that a thematic approach and good food aren’t mutually exclusive BY JAMES NORTON AMONG THOSE WHO LOVE FOOD, theme restaurants inspire fear, with good reason. When the staff is obsessed with tending to the needs of animatronic monkeys, food tends to take a back seat. First-time visitors to Alaska Eatery in […]
