Gastro Non Grata Nordeast Edition: A Goulash of Good Times

Gastro Non Grata Nordeast Edition: A Goulash of Good Times
Friday Nov. 12 and Saturday Nov. 13 $10 adv/ $13 door per night
A Benefit for the Ritz Theater at the Ritz Theater in NE MPLS
Doors at 7
345 13th Avenue Northeast
...(612) 436-1129

Gastro Non Grata has been busy sowing the seeds of knowledge bombs of the best local chefs, purveyors of the finest libation and lots of dirty rock and roll into your skulls for over four years. This fall we reaped such bumper crop of good times we have to make it a two day soiree with all proceeds to benefit our friends at the beautiful Ritz Theater in NE MPLS. That’s right, two days of the finest this city has to offer in chef driven food, locally owned alcoholic beverages and uber-talented musicians.

The November 12 show features chef Philip Becht (Modern Café) and Erik Anderson (Seachange) pairing foods with Crispin Cider while DJ Pat Dwyer (Grumpy’s NE) spins the hits and makes your fingers snap. Bands in order of appearance Magic Castles, Unknown Prophets, Tyler Burkum, and Me and My Arrow.


November 13 brings the flavor with Phil Becht again, flanked by Steven Brown (chef/owner of soon to be Tilia) on vittle patrol with our friends from Fulton Beer and Grape Beginnings. Cakeeater Bakery will also have something for your sweet tooth on hand. In between sets DJ Solid Gold plays the music that keeps hope alive. Music by Black Audience, Phantom Tails, Rude Girl, Marijuana Death Squads and Pink Mink.

We’re also proud to announce we’re bringing the meat raffle back for both nights with our friends from Clancey’s Meat and Fish and a bevy of local NE establishments throwing their wares into the prize vaults, so bring extra cash for raffle tickets.

Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love co-sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, Modern Café, Cakeeater Bakery, Fulton Beer, Crispin Cider, Grape Beginnings, Metro Magazine and Heavy Table.

Sea Change & Gastro Non Grata Monday July 19

Sea Change & Gastro Non Grata
Patio Series
Monday July 19, 5:30-10:00

Sea Change Patio - 818 South 2nd Street
$5 wristband for entry includes a gratis Pabst Tall Boy

4 courses for $25 or $7/course

Sea Change and Gastro Non Grata are glad to present a reason not to cook dinner on Monday night with their patio series. Chef Erik Anderson and some of his buddies have graciously allocated their time to sit outside, cook up some food, and listen to some music and drink beer with you and for you. The menu and chefs consist of :

Tim McKee

Sherry Glazed Pork Belly with Morcilla

Mike "Y.C." DeCamp

La Belle Vie
Grilled Cuttlefish with Tomato, Olive and Squid Ink

Shawn Smalley

Smalley's Caribbean Barbeque
Jerk-Roasted Pig with Jamaican Rice and Peas

Erik Andersen

Sea Change
Texas Hot Links

I’d love to tell you about our music guests, but I’m not going to. We’re pretty sure if you show up, you’ll be happily surprised. So bring some shorts to work and come sit on the patio and be awash in beautiful food and music.

This Patio Series is brought to you by Seachange, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Gastro Non Grata

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GNG & MN History Center Present: Little Locavores July 18

Gastro Non Grata: Doin' It For the Kids

Little Locavores: Tasty Bites of Minnesota's Culinary Past and Present

Sunday July 18
Minnesota History Center
345 Kellogg Blvd W. St Paul

Families are invited to explore Minnesota’s agricultural heritage through its food. Children and parents will enjoy healthy treats prepared by local chefs, including:

- Wild rice salad with noted Minneapolis chef Seth Bixby Daugherty
- Healthy popsicles from Helados Y Paletas La Chiquitas
- Local red skin potatoes & fresh ketchup from the History Center’s Café Minnesota
- Natural soda brewing from Northern Brewer
- Demos from Fabulous Catering

Learn more about local eating, play historic lawn games and save your favorite recipes in a cookbook you make yourself.

Kid-friendly musical performances by:
MC/VL
School of Rock
Walker West Music Academy Student Jazz Ensemble

Included with museum admission of $10 for adults, $8 for seniors & college students and $5 for children ages 6-17 (free for age 5 and under). No reservations needed.

Gastro Non Grata : Vagabond Vacation is June 27th

GASTRO NON GRATA : VAGABOND VACATION

SUNDAY, JUNE 27^TH DOORS AT 5:30 $12 ADVANCE/$15 DOOR

FIRST AVENUE, 7^TH ST. ENTRY AND RECORD ROOM

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We finally did it Ma, we’re playing the main room. Our biggest endeavor into gastronomic debauchery yet. Upon arrival you will be handed 3 red tickets and 3 blue tickets to start your journey down the path of gluttonous delight. Red tickets are good for beer samples, Blue for food samples. Food ticket stations will be placed throughout the venue and priced at a measly $4 each, so come hungry with cash in hand and prepare to feast.

Main Room

Our chefs for the evening will be Erik Anderson from Seachange serving water

animal of some kind, Heather Hartman from Spoonriver doing bahn mi and Jim Grell

of the Modern Cafe will be teaming up with the Craftsman’s Mike Philips grinding and

casing hot dogs giving the windy city a run for their money.

Representatives from Furthermore Beer, Lagunitas, Bell’s Beer will be

on hand talking about how awesome they are.

Music brought to you by Pink Mink, Private Dancer, Unknown Prophets,

Birthday Suits, School of Rock

7^th St. Entry

Cupcakes and Coffee with the always delightful Cake Eater Bakery

Loud Music by Guystorm, Fuck Knights, Moonstone and Rifflord

Record Room

PBR Tallboy specials and Oysters from Coastal Seafood

DJ sets by Hotpants, Attitude City and Shannon Blowtorch

Northern Brewer will be on hand as always doing what they brew best

and Clancey's Meats and Fish will be hanging around looking suspicious.

Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love brought to you by good people,

sponsored by Heavy Table, Metro Magazine and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

So buy a ticket already and let’s start this party.

Photos from our Gastro Non Grata 14 : Triple Rock/Hohenstein Appreciation and Gastrowhirl 2 : Muralize It

This is a picture of Fiero

all photos by Greg Schaal unless otherwise
noted or obviously taken by my crappy digital camera

Blood, Sweat and Beards

American Penetration giving you meat

Check out these pimps with their brand new table... Hot Stuff

He usually treats his bass much gentler

More American Penetration

Prairie Sons

Brian Ellison of Death's Door Spirits

Keepin' Everything on Ice

photo by soleil ho
GastroWhirl 2 : Muralize It

MMMMMmmmmm tacos with relish and onions and pig

photo by soleil ho

Vaz: We totally lucked out and got these guys. Thanks again to Jim Grell of the Modern Cafe for making these guys work in his restaurant a long time ago and talking them into playing our show on such short notice.

carnitas

that's a big grill and a good cook

Jeff telling the guys at Fulton Beer he has no idea what he's
doing and that he might be just a little bit drunk.

random street clown saves the day

Just a few of the many members of Me and My Arrow

Ryan from Fulton Beer

International Espionage appears in daylight to spy rock the crap out of you

What's that in the sunset? A show at First Avenue on June 27th? stay tuned for more details

Building Better Bombs

Amen and the Hell Yeahs


Pabst Mural Video done by Mike Endrizzi
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Fancy Poster for May 9th Show at Triple Rock

In case you forgot

Gastro Non Grata 14 – Triple Rock/Hohenstein’s Appreciation Sensation

Sunday May 9^th, Triple Rock Social Club, Doors at 6 $7 advance/ $10 at the door

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It’s been about four years since we started GNG and it’s probably time we started thanking all the people who help us try to break even . So this one’s for all our frieeends at Hohenstein’s Distributing and the Triple Rock Social Club. Without them, we’d have a pretty damn boring show.

As for libations, we’re giving craft brewers a break and moving into the world of Door Country Dutch Courage - Death’s Door Spirits is going to be on hand bringing mini-signature cocktails, moonshine stories and maybe a portrait of a rusty tractor in a field.

Our food guests won’t have to go far, the always inventive kitchen staff of the Triple Rock are hard at work in the lab creating vegan-friendly and vegan-unfriendly dishes that will definitely twist brains and make you smile non grata style.

For our musical guests, we’ve kept it in house – The Prairie Sons and Blood, Sweat and Beers both feature members of the Triple Rock Staff and American Penetration and Fiero feature employee’s of Hohenstein’s Dist.

As always, Northern Brewer will be on hand making and pouring gastrobrew

Dead Meat Door Prizes from Clancey’s Meat and Fish in Linden Hill’s will continue to be engaging, thought-provoking and useful.

Ticket sales will be limited to 250 people so there’s room for everyone to move around, drink samples, eat food and have a good time without having to push, so get your tickets before they’re gone.

Tickets available from Triple Rock Online or from gastro constituents around town.

Sponsored by Metro Magazine, The Onion, Northern Brewer, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Heavy Table and Clancey’s

Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love brought to you by Craig Drehmel, Jeff Mitchell and Joe Belk

GastroWhirl 2 : Muralize It May 16th in the Modern Cafe Parking Lot. You're all gonna burn

For Immediate Release

GastroWhirl 2 : Muralize It

Sunday, May 16^th Food starts around Eleven, Music starts at 12:30

Modern Café Parking Lot (337 13th Ave.) in NE Minneapolis.

Free admission to all

$1 wristbands for 21+ to drink

Gastro Non Grata and Modern Café have put aside their petty differences on reality TV programming to bring you GastroWhirl 2 : Muralize It –an entire day of local bands, cold beer, fine wine and a PBR art mural.

Modern Café will be open inside inside until 2pm, but the interesting stuff will be cooking on the parking lot. Jim and Phil are going to be building a BBQ pit out of cinder blocks then overload it with braising pans full of shouldered pork that will be torn into carnitas tacos with radish relish and a few select sides to help set the base for the day of debauchery.

We’re glad the guys at Fulton Beer will be on hand pouring Sweet Child of Vine IPA. Local beer made by local guys drank by local ladies and fellas, a thing of beauty. Also, Chris Brink of Bourget Imports will be on hand to dole out some summer whites and thirst quenching rose for those of you that stick your pinkies in the air.

Our friends at Pabst Blue Ribbon will be on hand all day pounding tall boys and creating an art mural on the empty wall of the parking lot, giving us some some whirl cred and leaving a lasting impression of what should prove to be an amazing show.

On the music end we’re biting off ten bands of varying flavor and intensity. Starting off with Sorry OK, Ogre Smash Death Boom, Claps, Communist Daughter, Chickadee Mountain Martyrs, Me and My Arrow, Amen and the Hell Yeahs, International Espionage, Cokewolf And Building Better Bombs.

Chris from Bourget will be pouring wine samples before Communist Daughter

Fulton Beer representatives will take the stage before Me and My Arrow pouring free samples

Poster and Band schedule attached

Gastrowhirl is a joint effort to break even by Gastro Non Grata and Modern Cafe

GASTRO NON GRATA 14 : TRIPLE ROCK/HOHENSTEIN APPRECIATION SENSATION

For Immediate Release:

Gastro Non Grata 14
Triple Rock/Hohenstein’s Appreciation Sensation

Sunday May 9th, Triple Rock Social Club, Doors at 6 $7 advance/ $10 at the door

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It’s been about four years since we started GNG and it’s probably time we started thanking all the people who help us try to break even. So this one’s for all our frieeends at Hohenstein’s Distributing and the Triple Rock Social Club. Without them, we’d have a pretty damn boring show.

As for libations, we’re giving craft brewers a break and moving into the world of Door Country Dutch Courage - Death’s Door Spirits is going to be on hand bringing mini-signature cocktails, moonshine stories and maybe a portrait of a rusty tractor in a field.

Our food guests won’t have to go far, the always inventive kitchen staff of the Triple Rock are hard at work in the lab creating vegan-friendly and vegan-unfriendly dishes that will definitely twist brains and make you smile non grata style.

For our musical guests, we’ve kept it in house – The Prairie Sons and Blood, Sweat and Beers both feature members of the Triple Rock Staff and American Penetration and Fiero feature employee’s of Hohenstein’s Dist.

As always, Northern Brewer will be on hand making and pouring gastrobrew
Dead Meat Door Prizes from Clancey’s Meat and Fish in Linden Hill’s will continue to be engaging, thought-provoking and useful.

Ticket sales will be limited to 250 people so there’s room for everyone to move around, drink samples, eat food and have a good time without having to push, so get your tickets before they’re gone.

Tickets available from Triple Rock Online or from gastro constituents around town.

Sponsored by Metro Magazine, The Onion, Northern Brewer, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Heavy Table and Clancey’s

Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love brought to you by Craig Drehmel, Jeff Mitchell and Joe Belk

Eggs For Africa : Raisin' some scratch for the kids in Mozambique

Pabst Blue Ribbon and Gastro Non Grata Present :
EGGS FOR AFRICA – Raisin’ some scratch for Mozambique
6 Bands, 6 Chefs and 600 eggs

Hexagon Bar, Saturday, March 13th Doors at 8 PM, $10 cover
This is a celebration of the most versatile food to ever be passed from an animal and we have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen. Will there be flan? I can’t tell you because I don’t know. Eggnog mayonnaise? Pork Belly soufflé? I like the way you think, but we’re going to leave this one to the professionals.

Erik Anderson (Seachange), Philip Becht (Modern Café), Steven Brown, Alexander Dixon, Brian Crouch (D’amico) and Landon Schoenefeld (Haute Dish) will be taking turns slingin’ ouf all night long for much needed charitable donations. The night before the show each chef will receive 100 eggs courtesy of our friends at Bar 5 and and five pounds of butter and other goodies from Land O' Lakes. They will then turn an ear to their roguish inner voices and follow blindly.

Aping the egg, the night’s music comes in two parts, country will be the albumen to rock and roll’s vitellus. The Annandale Cardinals, Captain Clawthroat and Rope Trick will provide some good old, down home, sunny side up country music. While The Yoleus, Truckstops Across America and Total Fucking Blood will devil up some power chords and hard-boil some brains into an obnoxious rock and roll salad.

Screen Printers Tom and Burke from Overproof will be on hand with a portable screen printing machine ready to beautify any shirt you can bring them, 150 T Shirts will be provided on-site as well for donation.

All proceeds of the show will be used to support children in Mozambique, helping with their education and general well-being. If you can't make the show, we'd sure appreciate it if you'd go to this facebook page/website and show some support and donate a couple bucks to get us closer to our $5000 goal. It's for a good cause, so keep the loose change at home and bring the money that folds.

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GASTRO NON GRATA 13 : LEFTOVER LOVE FEB. 28TH TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GASTRO NON GRATA 13 - LEFTOVER LOVE

Sunday, February 28th Triple Rock Social Club, $7 Cover, Doors at 6
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This time we're making a big deal out of small plates. We welcome Doug Flicker of Piccolo on 43rd and Bryant. With a focus on flavor and locality Doug has been a stalwart proponent of good food in this city for many years. Hailing from such legendary restaurants as Auriga, Porter & Frye and D'amico Kitchen, we count ourselves lucky to bring some flavor samples to the stage. He will be creating a smoked sturgeon dish and the most amazing pork meatball known to man.

Our brewery guest will be the Eric Wallace and Mike Walters of Left Hand Brewing of Colorado. They are a great craft brewery that has stuck to their guns and continued to produce balanced, drinkable beers and a host of interesting seasonal brews.

On the music front, we couldn't be more excited. We'll kick off the evening with the Rockabilly roustabouts BITCH AND BROWN as they bring their atmospheric blend of spaghetti westerns, flathead 8's and heartache. Then prepare to be lulled into a sonic mind trip by the waxing, waning, driving BELLA KOSHKA. Thirdly, our first hip hop act, Nordeast's own Mike and Big Jess, your UNKNOWN PROPHETS will make the hamster wheel in your head spin while you tentatively think about shaking your stoic midwestern booty. To finish things off with a bang, we've brought in NOISE NOISE NOISE, some snotty but well meaning fellas driving all the way from Montana in the name of punk rock.

As an added bonus, all around sweetheart and cupcake yakuza overlord Sheela Namakkal of soon-to-open Cake Eater Bakery will be hanging around dispersing some of the best goddamn cupcakes you'll ever taste at intermittent points throughout the night.

As always Northern Brewer will be on hand. Pouring the hoppy amber ale from our last show and boiling a whole new batch of beer goodness in the back.
Clancey's Meat and Fish in Linden Hills will be providing you a chance at our always inanimate, ever wonderful, forever flavorful, Dead Meat Door Prizes.
Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love brought to you by Craig Drehmel and Jeff Mitchell

Sponsored by: The Onion, Metro Magazine, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Thrifty Hipster, Northern Brewer and Heavy Table