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The Tipsy Steer

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I’m ashamed to have to admit it but I’m really not a very adventuresome eater.  When I find a restaurant or a particular dish that I like, I’m loyal.  I stick to it like glue.  There are often pangs of guilt involved in this.  Whenever I’m about to order my favorite, it occurs to me that I could try something else.  Maybe I would love it just as much.  But I rarely take the chance.

So when my friend Tony said we should have lunch on my side of town, I decided it had to be at a new place.  I spent a lot of time googling restaurants, looking at the menus, checking the ratings/reviews.  Finally found a place called the Tipsy Steer over on Hiawatha.  I will admit that the name was the hook but the menu had a good variety that I was sure would give Tony and me options.

We sat outside on the patio (overcast but cool so perfect weather for it) and then I found another selling point.  All of their different burger combinations can be made with a meatless burger option!  I love that although it does make it a much longer process for me to pick something.  I settled on a Pimento Cheese & Olive Tapenade with Roasted Red Pepper Burger.  They serve the burgers on metal platters with a nice helping of fries – nice presentation. 

The burger was fabulous.  I’ve never had pimento cheese OR olive tapenade on a burger before and I have to say it was an excellent combination.  It was messy, but we had plenty of napkins.  Tony had a straight up cheeseburger which he reported was great.  The fries were no slouches either.  We had grabbed to-do containers before the food even arrived – good thing – the burgers were huge – we needed to put half of them in the containers right away!

I was so happy to have chosen a new restaurant and tried something different.  Now the only problem is getting myself to try a different burger when I take YA there sometime soon!

How do you like your burgers?  Ever had a burger that you would consider “adventuresome”?

48 thoughts on “The Tipsy Steer”

  1. i am adventerous but have a cheap streak in me thay is repulsed by the prices charged for beans or peas mixed whith whatever to be presented at $14 or the equivalent
    i used to love subways $5 footlong but that went away duringvthe pandemic and turned into $12 and i wont go back
    i make adventerous ideas whenever i have the stove on. fun cheese options and topping like a big dallop of olive tapenade are right up my alley but id be more likely to add ot into the burger at the final stages of cioking it up
    olives are a regulat addition. i love olives of all kinds peppers sweet and hot fun mushrooms nuts and greens go into my concoctions so when i go out and the offer an impossible burger with a slab of cheddar on it for $12 or $15 im pissed.
    im on an indian food kick these days and am disciverong that whole array of tastes from an unfamiliar part of the spice rack
    id love to learn bread

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    1. We eat Indian food on a regular basis. The best cookbook we have found to date is Neelam Batra’s “1000 Indian Recipes”. I made her chapati recipe just last Sunday.

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        1. How do you do with individual spices like cumin, coriander, turmeric, etc when a recipe calls for them?. I rarely use pre-made curry powder and make my own spice blends, and the Indian recipes I use typically call for individual spices.

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        2. Cumin and coriander both turn to metal in my mouth. I can enjoy a small amount of cilantro without the metal taste (coriander is made of the cilantro seeds). Tumeric causes a lot of digestive issues. I avoid all but the cilantro and use hot peppers which I do fine with. I don’t even use chili powder which has a lot of cumin in it.

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  2. i recently ate at the testaurant two doors down from latte da and the have a new ownership team a new chef and marvelous burgers but i fear for their existance
    get there quickly before its gone
    the carmalized brussel sprouts were unbelievable

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  3. I don’t like burgers and I rarely eat them. I prefer my ground meat in the form of meatballs or meat loaf. I think the issue is that I really dislike burger buns.

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  5. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    I am not adventurous about my burgers. I like mine specifically from Fareway Stores (Iowa chain with great meat market. Closest is in Faribault), the quarter pounder pre-frozen boxes, BBQ’d or fried over high heat, with salt, pepperjack cheese, and in the summer, with an Anaheim pepper seared over the BBQ grill. The bun must be toasted on the grille for a few seconds. All that is served with grilled onions. I might have a slice of avocado.

    I may try this restaurant. The name is terrific.

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      2. There is a Cardinal Bar still open at 38th and Hiawatha. The Tipsy Steer is at 50th and Hiawatha. So pretty close by.

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      1. Phoebe’s health is rebuilding. Everyday she is a bit more herself. She can now jump up on the couch and negotiate the stairs. Renee, she is having some side effects of the prednisone–more anxious than usual (manic?), and drinking way too much water, so we have had to ration water. She can walk a block or two with me now, as well, so it is coming along. At night she does not want to settle in her kennel, and spends about 10 minutes yipping bossily.

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        1. We will be up North for several days and cannot take her. Her health has re-built enough that she is staying with a close friend who I know will tend her carefully.

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        3. This was a 30 day dose, but a week from Friday she goes back for a follow up, and I suspect at that time they will start to reduce the dose.

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  6. White Castle sliders are an adventure.
    No burgers now (sad). Too much cholesterol.
    The onions, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers are okay. No cheese (sad).

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  7. Used to be a restaurant in Duluth, started by a woman who appeared on the Julia Child show. It had the delightful name of Somebody’s House. It specialized in burgers of many kinds described in humorous terms on the menu. Some they did not make, cannibal burger: raw egg on raw meat. They catered to kids. Swamp water was a favorite drink for our small kids. “Don’t let the crocodiles bite you.” Our daughter once spilled hers. They were right there to clean up and give her a new one and make her less embarrassed.
    She sold it to a man who took all of the joy out it. It did not last 6 months.

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  8. I like burgers but often as not I choose a burger at a restaurant when nothing else on the menu has particularly intrigued me. The last burger I had was one I shared with Robin at At Sara’s Table in Duluth. We had waffle-cut yam fries as our side. I’m ambivalent about french fries. The other sharing component was a Caesar salad. Before that, I think the last burger I had was over a year ago, sitting in the booth William Sydney Porter—O Henry—once frequented at Pete’s Bar in Manhattan.

    Not especially exotic, but the Wild Rice Burger at Fitger’s in Duluth is quite good for a non-beef burger.

    We have also been enjoying the wild-caught salmon patties that Costco sells (frozen), though we generally consume them bunless and so not technically a burger.

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  9. For the last three years I have only been using ground turkey and not ground beef, partly for health reasons, partly because I lost my taste for beef. When I get a hamburger now, it tastes rancid to me. I used to like veggie burgers but I guess I lost track of the brand. My favorite restaurant for veggie burgers closed long ago.

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  10. I know I’ve had a really good “blue cheese burger” somewhere, with the cheese mixed into the meat. Just can’t remember exactly where that was.

    I loved the Lion’s Tap on Hwy. 169 in Eden Prairie – are they still there? All they served was burgers and fries, the most exotic burger being the California with cheese, lettuce, tomato. They are/were just basic, and really good.

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  11. OT-It is currently 106° here with winds gusting to 33 mph and the air filled with smoke from Canadian wildfires. The hottest part of our day is usually late afternoon, so it could get hotter here. You could fry a burger on the sidewalk!

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    1. Matt’s at 35th and Cedar. I’ve been there post-softball game with my work team but I think we were just after the beer and not the burgers.

      One of the Blue Door restaurants is half a block from our house. They offer a stuffed burger in several iterations, I think.

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      1. A self taught chef has a restaurant in an unfinished building in the woods of rural Maine which has a waiting list to go eat at. I watch it on Discovery+ streaming. Must be available other ways.

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  15. I think MyBurger has very good burgers, both the regular beef kind and the pricier Impossible burger.

    In sit-down restaurants, the Saint Dinette cheeseburger is really excellent.

    I’ve been to the 5-8 Grill many times, but have never tried their Juicy Lucy. I like burgers, but don’t order them all that often. I’m more liely to opt for a chicken sandwich or a BLT.

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  16. There’s a place in San Francisco (at Geary and VanNess) that’s now called Buffalo Burgers, and that’s what I remember about them from 1970, but I think it had a different name… They were really good, if a 54-year-old memory serves…

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