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.

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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

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Fabulous Non Grata, January 8th 7-12ish, $20 advance, $25 door

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Gastro Non Grata and Fabulous Catering present: Fabulous Non Grata – The Movable Feast.

January 8th, 7-12ish Fabulous Catering 612.789.4244, 2900 13th Avenue South, Mpls, MN
$20 advance $25 door, call 612.789.4244 for advance tickets, valet parking will be available

Prepare to fill your gullet, satiate your thirst and feast on ear candy throughout a 3-room circus of flavor. We bring you FABULOUS NON GRATA, an amazing array of culinary creations from the expanses of Fabulous Catering near the Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis. Gastro Stations will be strategically positioned throughout with small plates, local beer and cider centered around a garage full of amazing local music.

We’ll start the evening off with our new favorite ukuelele band, The Chord and The Fawn. Dreamland Faces will then follow with their inventive, exquisite, entertaining timestamp tunes and we’re pleased as a kid with a spoonful of frosting to have Dark Dark Dark take some time off from recording to indulge us with their haunting melodies at the end of the night.

As for indulgences, how does this sound?

A Duet of Bleu Cheese "Truffles" Featuring "Brews and Blues" Faribault Cheese
Company Bleu Cheese made with Summit Winterfest with Toasted Walnuts and Moody Blue Smoked Gorgonzola with Smoked Paprika.

Chipotle Gouda Cheese Queso Fundito with Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, served with Fresh Fried Corn Chips.

Grassfed Beef and Three Bean Chili to warm yer bones, served with Furthermore beer.
We will also be serving a Stickney Hills Chevre Fondant Bruscetta with Honey Crisp Apples and Ames Farm Honey paired with Crispin Cider. There may also be samples of an unnamed, unreleased, super top secret Crispin cider.

To add to the fun, there will be a Build-your-own-Satay station with numerous meats for you to skewer and cover with sauces from around the world.

Now that’s a heck of a lot of good stuff for Twenty Bucks, Call 612.789.4244 and reserve a spot today.

Beer and Cider samples will be available at each food station and a cash bar will be on-premise if you feel the need to step up and have a drink.

Fabulous Non Grata is a labor of love made possible by Fabulous Catering and Gastro Non Grata

Gastro Non Grata 12 - COMFORT ALLEY

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Sunday, November 22nd, Triple Rock Social Club, Five Dollar Cover, Doors at 6
Gastro Non Grata 12 A Salute to Comfort Food and Cans
Dammit! It's cold outside again. Why not come warm your cockels with Gastro Non Grata.
For our dozenth show we're proud to have our first returning guest chef Landon Schoenfeld who has worked just about everywhere in town. He's opening his own restaurant in the coming months Haute Dish where he's going to gourmetize the comfort dishes we all know and love such as tater tot hot dish and more. He's going to be doing three sample courses, two from his forthcoming restaurant and one from his part time job slinging hash at The Wienery.

Our beer guest will be 21st Amendment Brewery, located in San Francisco, but recently contract brewing their cans of Hell or High Watermelon Wheat and Brew Free or Die IPA amongst some brand new beers we'll be debuting to the Metro area at Gastro Non Grata. These guys moved their release date for the city just to be a part of our little show, awwwww.

We're proud to give you one of our most eclectic music lineups yet. Starting with the sweet country sounds of the Annandale Cardinals, followed by the dueling pianos of the Legendary Cornbread Harris and West Bank Favorite Caddilac Kolstad. Then we kick out the jams with the big sound, pint sized School of Rock. Arctic Universe hits the stage with his mesmerizing gothic crooning and then Falcon Crest will bring the loud noises to finish off the evening.

Northern Brewer will start the show off by pouring samples our batch of Lambic beer we brewed at the last show, then starting a whole new batch of wonderful Gastro-Brew.

And as always Clancey's Meat and Fish in Linden Hills will be providing our amazing dead meat door prize.

Doors open at 6, so get there early so you don't miss a morsel.
Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love brought to you by Craig Drehmel and Jeff Mitchell.
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