Jim Mork

The Longfellow Community Council had a public meeting concerning a proposal to develop 3815 Lake Street E and the rest of the block. A former owner of Riverside Market is the proposed owner. He plans to replicate a turn of the century general store, with a host of quaint touches.

I had this plan to have lunch with my wife at a favorite place for Valentine's Day. I feel like we don't do enough of this. Arrived at the day, and she physically felt unable to go. Big disappointment, but then I got the idea that I could get takeout and bring it to her. So that's what my plan was.

I've been in a dialogue via comment on TC Daily Planet. In the Free Speech Zone was an article of 2012 restaurant openings. What caught my eye was the exclusive focus on Minneapolis. I posted a comment that Minneapolis was not some foodie island surrounded by wasteland. The author challenged me to present a list. I listed a whole bunch of restaurants outside Fortress Minneapolis. But I was reminded this was about NEW OPENINGS, and so sad that was restricted to Minneapolis where openings are a monopoly (OK, I'm setting up a straw man here, but the drift of the argument was that Minneapolis was the sole legitimate object of the article.

I sometimes feel uncomfortable writing up restaurants because I realize something about myself:  Food and I are in a cozy relationship that makes me a very hard person to disappoint. I can count on my fingers (maybe on one hand) the number of times a meal disappointed me. So can I be a "critic"?