Greetings, This is my last week w/o the tyranny of having to lecture at 8 a.m. 5x/week. So would like to organize a wine dinner somewhere for this Thursday, 1/28. Will need to decide by early tomorrow so as to get all the pieces in place. Any interest in: First Course and Pinot?? Risotto and Piedmont Al Vento and open Italian Open to other venues (S. Mpls) and other pariings. JD at Strip Club would like to see us back there. Thinking big reds, e.g. Cabs or We're also up for ngon, but need to stay on this side of the river this week. Please pop me a note asap. Critical mass is 6. Limit is 10 or 12. Cheers, Jim ----- Forwarded message from Alicia Anderson <sauternes76(a)gmail.com> ----- In-Reply-To: <6a3e13921001241449j7d08f63dm28139096539f7759(a)mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:52:53 -0600 Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: February 25th Oceanaire] From: Alicia Anderson <sauternes76(a)gmail.com> To: Joyce Hegstrom <jhegstro(a)umn.edu> Cc: russellmccandless(a)frontiernet.net, k9ladysue(a)aol.com, Betsy.Kremser(a)co.anoka.mn.us, rudelius(a)umn.edu, tedcarm(a)hotmail.com, jellings(a)me.umn.edu, l.ames(a)juno.com X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (smtp-relay.enet.umn.edu [128.101.142.227]); Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:53:16 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-Score: 1.842 (*) DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_TAG_EXIST_TBODY,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,SPF_PASS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 128.101.142.227 Sorry I forgot to attach this to everyone else!!!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alicia Anderson <sauternes76(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: February 25th Oceanaire] To: Joyce Hegstrom <jhegstro(a)umn.edu> Hi Bubbles, I'm glad you're having a good time in AZ. Sorry to hear about the misfortunes at Oceanaire. Here are some ideas for locations. If you want I can investigate or if you have contacts, just let me know Minneapolis Vincent's - Friend Cafe 28 - know owner Clancey's Meats & Fish (Do private events in the back room, might be a special dinner?) -Kristin, owner Restaurant Alma ? Love them, haven't eaten there in years Saffron ? Fab. Stella's Fish Cafe ? May have a contact there Cafe Maude - they have a party room across the street Grand Cafe - eat there for breakfast all the time First Course - John knows the owner Toast Wine Bar and Cafe - Good friends, best pizza in town Sushi? I don't recall if we have done that before. Something in NE? St. Paul Chianti Grill (I am friends with the Chief of Operations) Strip Club - only eaten there once, was fab Ngon Cafe (I really liked that place) I don't know this isn't a complete list, but just some ideas. Get back to me when you can... Cheers, Alicia On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Joyce Hegstrom <jhegstro(a)umn.edu> wrote: ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ------------------------------ * Dr. James Ellingson, jellings(a)me.umn.edu * * University of Minnesota, mobile : 651/645-0753 * * Great Lakes Brewing News, 1569 Laurel Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104 *