Gastro Non Grata : With a Side of St. Paul April 10, Turf Club look at all the info

Gastro Non Grata : With A Side of St. Paul

April 10 Doors at 6, show at 7 $7 entry

Turf Club, 1601 University Avenue, St. Paul

Good people of St. Paul, protect your ears and fortify your stomach. We’re finally gonna do it. Gastro Non Grata at the Turf Club and we’re taking it to both levels. Upstairs you will experience all the ribaldry and class you’ve come to expect from GNG, but once you descend the stairs you will be met with another $3 cover and a chance to experience The Wet Dragons PBR Chili Cook-off.

Upstairs

Lift Bridge Brewery, will be on hand to tell you what the heck Saison means, why everyone likes a farm girl and what it’s like brewing East of the Mighty Mississip. All the while Matt McArthur and the good people of Cheeky Monkey Deli on Selby Avenue will be serving up sumptuous bites of comfort food to make your tummy smirk.

We’ll kick off the night with the sweet sounds of Baby Boys. After that, Nato Coles will saunter in with his modern day troubadour/punk rock sensibility and tell you how it is in this world today. To close the night we’re gonna kick open the door to your heart and unleash the power of your hips with The Sex-Rays.

Northern Brewer will be on hand boiling wort and sampling their latest Gastro-Brew and Please, please dear lord, do not forget about all the wonderful raw, frozen organs and muscles we’re always happy to receive from Clancey’s Meats for our Dead Meat Door Prize.

Downstairs

Jimmy Green and the rest of the Wet Dragons will be overseeing large crock pots full of simmering, bubbling, chili love. Here’s the facebook invite.  Look for the link at other Gastro Non Grata social media outlets across the internet and sign up soon. There will be Special guest judges, cash and swag prizes, sloppy hugs and $3 tallboys for everyone. And it’ll only cost you an extra $3 at the door in the basement. A small price to pay to partake in the consumption of the holy trinity of tomato, meat and magical fruit.

Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love brought to you by City Pages, Heavy Table, Metro Magazine, PBR and Northern Brewer.

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Visual Proof our last show happened, because it did

Photos from our Art of Gastro Non Grata Show at Pink Hobo.

All the posters, some test prints, photos by Greg Schaal and special King Mini crazies

We need pictures from the Fork in the Road Truck who were there cooking up some great food!!!

It was a great night and we almost felt like we were actually growing up, 

then we played some Grand Funk Railroad and decided against it

Gastro Non Grata : Pre-Valentine Fricassee III, Feb 13th Triple Rock Social Club

GASTRO NON GRATA - PRE-VALENTINE FRICASSEE III
Triple Rock Social Club 
Feb. 13, advance tix $8, day of $10
Doors at 6, Show starts promptly at 7

After weeks of old man winter dumping loads of cold,it’s about time for Gastro Non Grata to heat things up with our third nose-thumbing at Valentines Day. We’ve got the whole crew from Chowgirls Killer Catering coming by in western wear to serve up samples of Indian Curry with Cinnamon-Scented Basmati Rice and Marvel's Seven Spice Raita. Followed by Truman's Asian Pork Short Ribs with Kim Chee Slaw.

For your drinking pleasure, we’re happy to welcome our neighbors from the Eastern Seaboard, Southern Tier who have been brewing innovative, vigorously hopped ales and robust stouts since 2003 and are going to be pouring from their regular lineup and a seasonal as well..

To step in and stick it to your sweet tooth, Christian Aldrich, pastry chef extraordinaire from Haute Dish will be concocting the most delicious Southern Tier based cheesecake-type substance you will probably ever eat.

Sounds pretty good doesn’t it? Now let me blow your mind with music. We’re stoked to have the crazy bearded men of 4onthefloor headlining the show, but don’t count out Running Scared, they were built to rock you in places you didn’t know existed. We’ll be opening the evening with Whiskey Jeff and the Beer Back Band singing tunes that’ll make you want to drink some beer, wipe a tear away and then drink some more beer.

Luckily, Northern Brewer will be on hand to start the show with samples of something interesting and will be filling the bar with the sweet smell of boiling wort throughout the night.

As always, expect big plastic bags full of Clancey’s Meat and Fish provided frozen dead animals that you could call your very own just by showing up for our Dead Meat Door Prize.

Gastro Non Grata is a labor of love sponsored by Northern Brewer, Metro Magazine, Heavy Table and provided for independent thinking eaters, local music lovers and of course, booze hounds with a heart.

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P.S. Be ready for Feb. 25 as well, we’re going to be doing a poster/photo/art type show at PINK HOBO with our friends from 128 Cafe food truck. More info to follow soon.

A few weeks ago, I sat down with the fine folks at Chowgirls catering to hork a free meal and tell them it was all in the name of research for our upcoming show on Feb. 13 at Triple Rock Social Club. Here's a photo journey of the day.

This was some of the art hanging inside,
I thought it appropriate

 Chef Truman Olson

 Queen of Hot Food, Marvel Devitt

 The spread

Indian Lamb Curry with Cinnamon-Scented Basmati Rice and Marvel's Seven Spice Raita

Truman's Asian Pork Short Ribs with Kim Chee Slaw

Jeff goes to Paris

Does it seem like Craig's a little lonely lately? Crying in his beer more than usual? Listless? Distracted? Do you catch him staring toward the heavens, softly singing "Somewhere Out There" under his breath while he tips back a tallboy? Is he just playing the same Crow record over and over on his DJ Truckstache nights at the King & I?


It's my fault. In September I split town. It's a temporary move, but Gastro Non Grata emotions run deep. I see that Craig has found a temporary, less handsome replacement for me in Jim Grell of the Modern Café. Anything to get through the dark, cold nights, I guess. 


The news is that in September, my wife and I moved to Paris. She got a teaching gig for the academic year. We rented our house, dropped the dog with my folks and moved into an 18 square meter apartment in the 11th arrondissement. Bam. Paris.

A food and alcohol lover's dream. As we approach the halfway point of our French adventure, I think some reports are long overdue. I have a shitty camera and a working knowledge of written English so, between now and May 31, I'll be checking in with Gastro Non Grata news from Paris.

Let's start with something important.

The Number One Thing I Can Eat That You Can't:

Soft-ripened raw milk cheese.

"Au Lait Cru" are the magic words. This Mont d'Or was incredible. We would eat it in spoonfuls after letting it sit out to warm up for a few hours. The top grows a white mold peach fuzz so soft you want to gently rub your nose on it. The perimeter is wrapped in pine bark, adding a northwoods forest floor flavor. Weighing in at about a half kilo, at €28-something per kilo, the stuff ain't cheap, but it was totally worth it. I recently bought a generic Mont d'Or from the supermarket for €5 and it wasn't near as good as the artisan crafted stuff. Still, it's nice to live somewhere where there is store-brand raw milk AOC cheese. Below is a Saint-Marcellin. With this one you get a free ceramic dish, useful for coins or as a candle-holder.

The only raw milk cheese aged under 60 days I can think of in Minnesota comes from Lovetree Farmstead who famously sell it as "fishbait" at the St Paul Farmer's Market. With the recent legal activity surrounding the sale of raw milk in MN, I'm not anticipating a change in cheese legislation any time soon. It's unfortunate. Although I am not very well versed in food law, safety standards and whatnot, I've gotta believe there's a way to replicate the French habit of not dying after eating cheese.

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.