I walked down to Wabasha Street a couple of weeks ago (on one of the really nice days before winter returned to our city for a couple of weeks!) to check out this little boutique I had seen every time I drove on Wabasha. Inside I found a very sweet woman who is running a cute combination boutique, insurance agency, travel agency and all around neighborhood shop.
Her shop has ...
Ever since I first drove by Jerabek's when I first moved to this side of town, I have been fascinated with all that is going on there. On the corner of Winifred and Stryker, Jerabek's is a combination coffeehouse, restaurant, bakery, cool place to hang out, gift store, and vintage clothing and housewares boutique. I love going in there and checking out their bulletin board to learn what apartments in the ...
I went to get my hair cut today to the little Village at Mendota Heights and had a few extra minutes to check out the other shops in this cute, new little shopping center surrounded by condo and apartment complexes. I found The Sage Market and Wine Bar, The Wine Market, and E's Cheese. I was delighted!
The Sage Market and Wine Bar are an adorable food market and deli with ...
If you are a vegetarian or if you prefer to have organic foods, one of the very best choices for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack just north of St. Paul off Highway 36 and Fairview Avenue across the intersection from Rosedale Shopping Center is the Good Earth restaurant (there's another one in Edina, but I have never been to that one).
I am my family and friends have been visiting ...
After church yesterday, I came home and got the book I am currently reading, (Norman Mailer's novel based on Adolf Hitler's childhood, The Castle in the Forest) and walked down the Wabasha Street stairs and went to lunch at Boca Chica's. I was too late to take in their Sunday buffet, unfortunately, but I had a super lunch. (half of which I brought home and will eat for lunch today!)
I ...
I have written before about sites within the Blair Arcade at Selby and Western in St. Paul, but I hadn't been all the way down to the end of the block to Fabulous Ferns in over 10 years so I didn't mention it before I made a point of going there for lunch so I could update my own memory about it. I did that about a week or so ...
Since the weather has moderated some, I have ventured outside my neighborhood a little bit and ended up giving myself a first-time treat! I had my first-ever facial from a professional, Maggie, at Dean Gray Salon and Spa, located on Randolph Avenue on the very edge of the Highland Park neighborhood. I had heard about how nice having a facial would be and I needed something celebratory for myself, having ...
I was in my old "stompin' grounds" this morning. I went up to Bandana Square which is off Energy Park Drive close to where I lived years ago with my family while I attended Hamline Law School. Bandana Square was just being developed at that time in the early 80's if I remember correctly.
It is an entire complex of historic buildings that were originally part of a passenger rail service. ...
If you have been following my blog at all, you must know by now that I live on the Westside of St. Paul and that in the winter time, I don't venture all that far from home! I don't like being cold or driving in bad weather, (Now you are probably wondering, "Why is she living in St. Paul, then?!" The answer is a long story!) so in the winter ...
Just north of University on Snelling, you will find Fasika, a restaurant serving authentic and very good Ethiopian food. I have been there two times now, each time when friends from out of town were visiting St. Paul. I think I have mentioned before that I seldom get to new places I want to go unless someone is here from out of town to motivate me!
Both times I have been in ...
