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Three Minneapolis restaurants are up for James Beard awards
And the James Beard Award winner is …
The honors, among the nation’s most prestigious in the culinary industry, will be announced Monday. The Twin Cities has three nominees up for awards.
Oro by Nixta is one of ten finalists up for Best New Restaurant. Oro’s chefs and co-owners are Kate and Gustavo Romero. The northeast Minneapolis eatery highlights Mexican heirloom corn.
Also nominated: Christina Nguyen of Hai Hai in northeast Minneapolis and Ann Ahmed of Khaluna in East Harriet. Both are nominated for Best Chef of the Midwest.
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Ahmed told MPR News host Tom Crann she has worked hard in all of her restaurants since she opened her first one nearly 20 years ago.
“This has been awesome because it’s been a recognition not for myself but my whole team,” she said.
Chef Ann Ahmed at Gai Noi in Loring Park in Minneapolis.
Photo by Monique Sourinho, courtesy of Tiffany Gerber
Ahmed specializes in Laotian food. She is also chef and owner of Gai Noi in Loring Park and Lat14 Asian Eatery in Golden Valley.
Nguyen serves Southeast Asian street food at Hai Hai in northeast Minneapolis, but the self-taught chef first opened Hola Arepa in south Minneapolis.
Nguyen told Cathy Wurzer earlier this year that she doesn’t do her work for awards, but she is “super honored” to be nominated again. She was nominated in 2019 and 2020 for Best Chef of the Midwest.
“But it is absolutely a nice acknowledgment to have, for me and our entire team, who work so hard all the time,” Nguyen said. Hai Hai has gotten busier since her nomination, she added.
Hai Hai restaurant owner Christina Nguyen says her bar welcomes a diversity of patrons through her takes on Southeast Asian food and drink.
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On Oro by Nixta’s Instagram page a few days ago, “Team Tortilla,” presumably the restaurant’s staff, took over the account to shower praise on the Romeros.”
“Corngratulations chef y chefona. And mil gracias – for giving so many of us a place to belong and feel at home. We’re so proud of you.”
The 2024 Restaurant and Chef Award announcements will be streamed here beginning at 5:30 p.m. CST.
Minneapolis Police said they found an unexpected passenger in the back of a vehicle, which had crashed.
According to the police, officers were called to a single-vehicle accident in which the driver had reportedly left the crash scene. The driver was later located with a suspected leg injury and taken to the hospital.
While investigating the car, Minneapolis Police said they unexpectedly found a frightened puppy curled up on the back seat floorboard.
The puppy was safely cared for and later reunited with its family.
“We are proud of our officers for serving and protecting—two- and four-legged members of our community alike,” the police department said in a statement.
At this time, it is unknown if the driver of the vehicle is facing any criminal charges related to the crash.
A Christmas Day shooting has left a man hospitalized and fighting for his life in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Police Sgt. Garrett Parten says it happened at around 6:50 a.m. Thursday near the intersection of Cedar Avenue and 17th Avenue South, in the city’s Seward neighborhood.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting and found a man with potentially life-threatening injuries.
Parten says officers provided aid until the man could be taken to a hospital by ambulance.
Investigators believe the suspect was dressed in black clothing and fled the scene before officers arrived.
No arrests had been made as of Thursday night.
The investigation remains active.
Minneapolis police are investigating after they say a man suffered “potentially life-threatening injuries” in a stabbing on Thursday morning.
It happened around 4:45 a.m. near Franklin Avenue East and Chicago Avenue. Officers were called there after reports of a bleeding man boarding a Metro Transit bus.
The man was taken to the hospital after receiving medical help from the officers.
According to police, the stabbing did not happen on the bus.
Investigators are looking into what led to the shooting, and say there’s a “possibility that it occurred during an attempted robbery.”
As of Thursday afternoon, no one has been arrested.
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