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We want to be more than just friends with: Hot Plate

published by Fran Shea

Hot Plate-> 5204 Bloomington Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55417

ANOTHER profile for the special series dedicated to bringing our readers biased reviews of shops that carry our goods.
 
I had no idea that I loved to be surrounded by paint-by-number art and Paula figurines. Who could know something like that? I was once surrounded by prosthetic limbs
 
(thanks etsy) but it didn’t feel as cheery as you might think. Something about the deadness. Oh, and I’m not a food critic. I don’t criticize food. Except for the time I got that French Silk Pie from Bakers Square. Why was that pie like a thousand enemas?
 
And now I’m going to talk about breakfast.
How did Carrie Lewis and Sam Beberg do it?!

Hot Plate proves that kitsch is cool – from the (spotless) mid-century inspired decor to the classic (updated) mid-western fare. *It would be irresponsible to not warn you about the Mexican Omelette. You will never forget it… it will give you no peace and will call to you in your dreams.

We want to be more than just friends with: Patina

published by Fran Shea

Patina-> So many locations.

Another profile for the special series dedicated to bringing our readers biased reviews of shops that carry our goods.

I’ll tell you what Patina doesn’t sell: beer bongs, hazmat suits,

DIY cryogenics kits or kittens. And, while I’m still waiting for such a shop to open, (perhaps in the afterlife) I must admit that Patina has nailed the drag-me-out-of-this-store-before-I-spend-all-of-my-money formula.

Owners, Rick Haase and Christine Ward comb the planet in search of gifts for your (my) Aunt Lynn, Uncle John, teenager, baby, mom, neighbor, lawyer, therapist, evil twin,

dog or bf (blind faction). I don’t even know what I did for gifts (yes, I do – homemade soap anyone?) before Patina opened its doors on 5oth and Bryant. I can’t even think of another shop (I can, but they don’t carry Zeichen Press goods – yet) in the Twin Cities that has so successfully cemented itself into our retail subconscious. (Did you even know you had a retail subconscious?? Everyone does, without it we would only shop at Walmart.)

 

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