Experts Sum Up Dining in Minneapolis/St. Paul in 2018 in Just One Word

Every year Eater reaches out to friends who cover the food scene and ask what their best —and worst — meals of the past year have been. Today local media folks and serious culinary fans are attempting to sum up the year in dining in just one word.

Colleen Lindstrom, myTalk 107.1 host the Colleen & Bradley Show

Dynamic!

Elizabeth Ries, co-host Twin Cities Live

Satisfying

Mike Marcotte, Give Me the Mike and KSTP’s Guy About Town

Shifting.

Bradley Traynor, myTalk 107.1 host the Colleen & Bradley Show, restaurant critic Lavender Magazine

Teeming.

Stephanie Hansen, co-host Weekly Dish

Understaffed.

Sharyn Jackson, reporter Star Tribune’s Taste section

Non-Stop

Nancy Ngo, Pioneer Press Restaurant Reporter

Express

Jason DeRusha, WCCO host DeRusha Eats

Specialized: you want your poke, you got it? Empenadas – sure. Vegetarian: we’ve got three of them. Smaller, specialized restaurants appealing to narrow audiences are proliferating.

Joy Summers, Editor Eater Twin Cities

Fire