Dining on the North Shore and beyond
Posted on January 27th, 2009 – 7:58 AMBy Kerri Westenberg
I’m fresh from a weekend in Grand Marais, where I warmed up with decadent pesto-shrimp pizza and succulent short ribs at Chez Jude on Friday night. As I scooped up the last of the sage ice cream (delicious, a play on mint), I picked up this little nugget: Judi Barsness, proprietor and chef of Chez Jude, treats guests at Bearskin Lodge on the Gunflint Trail to her cooking on weekends. For Chez Jude neophytes: Barsness creates a changing menu based on what’s fresh and available nearby and what’s growing in her garden out the door (or what was grown; the sage of the ice cream came from her own crop). No surprise she took an internship with a kindred spirit, the famed Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., a few years back. Chez Jude is open through February 15; the restaurant opens again for the summer season on Mother’s Day weekend. Barsness will be cooking at Bearskin throughout the winter season.
2 Responses to "Dining on the North Shore and beyond"
A treat indeed! Chez Jude is fabulous. Lucky you.
AHHH–I feel the urge to head north. Try one of the three MOUNTAINOUS burgers on the menu. I had this one recently:
1/2lb North Star Farms chopped elk steak w/Eichten Farms wild rice gouda cheese organic burger served w/applewood bacon, greens, tomato, red onion, pickle spear, onion ring,
cucumber fennel salad-Dijon ailoi, ketchup and frites. All for only $12!!!!!!! A better burger and frites has not been had.
Kerri Westenberg has globe-trotted for National Geographic and other magazines. Now she zips around the region, on the lookout for travel news you can use.
Elizabeth Larsen lived in Salzburg, Austria, and has traveled throughout Europe and the Americas. She can say "diaper," "bottle" and "crib" in four languages.
Troy Melhus has heli-skied on glaciers, dived alongside Monk seals and raced for 24 hours on a mountain bike. All this, and he rarely spends more than $500 on a trip.
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