Vinaigrette

08/21/2025

It’s getting real up in here - Live interview to begin between 5:30-5:50 CT. So honored to share our small business story. CNN The Lead with Jake Tapper.

08/19/2025

Just wanted to let you know we will be closed on Thursday August 21st for a short duration starting at 5 pm. I will be doing a live interview on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper. This interview should last no more than 7 minutes and as soon as the interview is over we will re-open!

07/30/2025

As a small family owned business - we value each and every one of our customers who choose to shop small and local ~ you literally put food on our table. We will be having to take a price increase due to tariffs ~ shop now before August 5th when our various products will reflect the tariff increase https://bit.ly/41lItrs

07/28/2025

Had a few things pop up and we are closing early today ~ but will be open tomorrow at 11 ~ see you soon 💜

07/23/2025

The heat and humidity is killing me - so for dinner we enjoyed this salad. I went heavy on the chicken 3 teenagers requires a little more protein - so chicken, romaine, apples, strawberries, feta and for the dressing, I didn’t have much of my Spanish olive oil so used the rest of that, oregano olive oil (which is on sale) and strawberry true fruit vinegar … that’s it

07/13/2025

Thanks for the shoutout! meettheminnesotamakers

07/12/2025

More heartbreak 💔

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Agz4Y57ud/?mibextid=wwXIfr

07/11/2025

The hurt continues

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Gt3Crd3Q5/?mibextid=wwXIfr

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news: Annie’s Parlour will be closing its doors for good, July 2, after more than fifty unforgettable years in Dinkytown.

Annie’s was opened by John Rimarcik, a Minneapolis restaurateur with a gift for creating places that felt like they’d always been there. John believed in keeping things simple, affordable, and real—and Annie’s stayed true to that for half a century, serving up burgers, fries, and malts to generations of regulars.

Even during our four-year closure, we held onto the hope that Annie’s would come back, and we’re deeply grateful that we got one more year to do what we love—serve good food, reconnect with old friends, and be part of the neighborhood again.

But now, the time has come for us to say goodbye.

Thank you—to our staff past and present, to the students who became regulars, to the families who made us part of their routine, and to everyone who ever climbed that staircase and made Annie’s a part of their lives.

With love,
The Annie’s Parlour Family

Gift cards purchased at Annie’s Parlour can still be redeemed at Convention Grill in Edina.
📍 Convention Grill
3912 Sunnyside Rd, Edina, MN 55424

07/10/2025

Today we mourn for our fellow business owners that have had to close - I will be sharing these tragedies if only as a reminder that we need you as consumers to wield your economic power and support local businesses 💔

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Dear community -

Palmers' family, friends and patrons deserve a better, more complete explanation for why Palmers is going out of business after 119 years.
When we bought Palmers it was with a trusted partner that we had worked with for over 18 years. In 2022 we discovered that trust and partnership was broken, leaving Palmers in dire financial and operational straits.
We decided to move forward to rebuild and restore the business with the full confidence in what Palmers is and what Palmers represents to the community and beyond. We truly had this confidence because we have outstanding and dedicated staff, a loyal customer base and the support of so many musicians and artists. Unfortunately, things did not work out the way we had hoped...
Due to the current economic environment, people’s changing drinking habits, and the challenges of losing so many other bars and businesses in our neighborhood, Palmer’s has been losing $10,000 - $30,000 a month. The situation was no longer sustainable.
We cut expenses as much as possible and adjusted prices where we could and it just wasn’t enough to climb out of the hole we were falling into. The idea of a worker owned collective was considered, and is a good idea, but burdening the staff with this magnitude of loss is not fair to them. We had run out of options and decided to start work with a experienced commercial real estate broker last year to find a suitable buyer for Palmers. She approached many people in the bar and venue industry and the response from all was a unanimous “hard pass”. As we reached the end of our resources and still needed to sell, she expanded the scope of her search for a buyer and we finally accepted the the one and only offer we got - from our next door neighbors for a community space.
We may have failed in your eyes, and we promise you this has been the hardest decision we have ever had to make, but the alternative was an orange sticker on the locked door with no notice to staff or patrons.

07/09/2025

We love our partnership with Sweet Science - they are currently serving up Peach Cobbler and use Vinaigrette’s peach white balsamic.

Organic peach compote swirled through vanilla ice cream with lots of gluten-free streusel. Made in collaboration with white balsamic peach vinegar from Vinaigrette. (gluten-free, contains milk, eggs)

http://bit.ly/40bCSDI

http://bit.ly/4f0cIKt

07/08/2025

Avocado Mango Salad

3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil (any regional, I like lime with this one) or avocado oil
3 tablespoons either Mango true fruit vinegar or any white balsamic would do
salt and pepper to taste

5 oz arugula
1 mango ripe, peeled, pit removed, diced into bite-sized pieces
1 avocado peeled, cored, and diced
¼ cup red onions thinly sliced
⅓ cup pine nuts toasted

06/06/2025

Restocked ~ fusti’s are full! (Most of them anyway) stop in or order online! https://vinaigrettemn.com/collections