GASTRO NON GRATA 14 : TRIPLE ROCK/HOHENSTEIN APPRECIATION SENSATION

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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

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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

Duff Goldman wore our T-shirt

The Ace of Cakes only played bass the other night

Ran into Duff at the Triple Rock the other night when his band soihadto opened for American Penetration, Fiero and Bastard Saint. It was a night full of rock and roll and absolutely no baked goods. But hey, that's all right. Thanks to Duff for actually wearing the shirt on stage before he uses it as a polishing rag of some sort. Now that's some PR.

Fabulous Non Grata Recap

The View from the unnoticed merch table

the Chord and the Fawn play on our hydraulic lift stage

They got the vibe

The biggest pot of chili this year!

Big, Big, Big pot of chili

Mike Endrizzi's Polar Patio

One of the Three Food and Drink rooms, this is the chili room

Sadly our palm reader was double booked, but we tried to make her feel at home.

Empty Stage

Fire and Ice on the Polar Patio

Special Thanks to PBR, one of our sponsors

all photos by soleil ho/kitchenbitch