mpls: eats.

Heavy Table: An appetizer of fire-roasted baby carrots made us fall in love with the root vegetable all over again: tender, smoky, sweet, and accented with gentle curry sauce, rye croutons, and sunflower seeds. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Make sure to try one of the shareable toasts -- they're mildly filling and arrive on an ornate, tiered platter with tasty flavors like house-cured lox or steak tartare. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Get the Tennessee Hot fried chicken, which boasts a remarkably crisp exterior and a low, lovely, honey sweetness followed quickly by a deep and rolling spicy heat wave. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Raw Vegetable Salad arrived as an explosion of color in a bowl, with mandolined raw veggies (ribbons of carrot and cabbage, and a sliced avocado) tossed in a Vietnamese-style nuoc-cham vinaigrette. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: The eclair is a reinvention of the form. Boasting a crunchy, streusel-style topping & rich chocolate filling, the appropriately chewy pastry is modestly sized and deeply flavored. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Grab the blueberry pancakes -- they're legitimately second to none and the ambiance alone is worth the modest price of your check. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: If you're early enough to score a donut, spring for the vanilla-filled variety. The pastry cream is subtle and just-sweet-enough, and it's grounded by a beautifully light, wholesome brioche shell. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: The raised glazed doughnut was intensely chewy, light and delicate, and — cue the sound of angelic harps — not too sweet. This is drive-across-town good. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Cuban hashes and scrambles, full of black beans, chorizo, yucca and plantains -- you can't go wrong. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Get the Tater Tot HauteDish, served along side a hunk of short rib — covered in gravy and tender beyond all belief. On top, a thatch of lemony, perfectly al dente green beans. Mehr erfahren.

Heavy Table: Try the Calamarata with Raw Tuna: brightly spiced, al dente squid-shaped rings of pasta and huge, tender chunks of tuna conjure up a setting far from the landlocked tundra. Mehr erfahren.