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Finance + Legal Services

Best Business Banking in Eden Prairie

Shouldn’t all banking be personal – business banking included? J.H. Hoeven believed so when he founded First Western Bank & Trust in Minot, North Dakota in 1964. He understood that earnest Midwesterners expect to know and trust whomever they have dealings with, and determined to gain their good faith by building real relationships with them.North Dakota’s primary industries in the 1960s were (and still are) agriculture and energy. All business owners expect convenience, forthrightness, and...

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Finance + Legal Services

JH & Associates: Your Twin Cities Tax Solution

There are few things you dislike more than paying taxes. Hefty fines and criminal charges are two of them, which is why you unhappily fork it over to Uncle Sam every year.Fortunately, if you’re filing taxes in the Twin Cities, then you can make your life a whole lot easier this tax season. JH & Associates is now accepting new clients!JH & Associates was founded in 2024 by corporate accountant and entrepreneur Jme Hogenson, whose clients now include over 600 individuals and several dozen...

Food + Beverage

Baker’s Ribs

Barbecue Texas Style, Smoked Low and Slow Article by Bill Scheller | Photography by Julie Hawkins Where there’s smoke, there’s oak. That smoke is coming from the slow-burning oak logs at Baker’s Ribs: Eden Prairie’s temple of Texas barbecue, where pork ribs and shoulder, beef brisket, beer can chicken, buffalo wings, and holiday hams and turkeys are gently smoked to perfection. For over 30 years, Baker’s Al Killion has been an ambassador for the barbecue style of his native state. “In Texas...

Sports + Recreation

Bearpath Golf and Country Club Swim and Dive Team

Making a Big Splash in Eden Prairie Article and Photography by It’s building confidence and skill in a supportive environment. It’s welcoming kids ages 5 to 17, regardless of ability or background. It’s ten consecutive Western Swim League titles and 22 Western Dive League championships in the last 25 years. It’s Donut Fridays.   It could only be the Bearpath Golf and Country Club Swim and Dive Team! “This pool has been like a second home to me over the past 25 years,” said Brent Pottinger...

Food + Beverage

Fat Pants Brewing Co.

Where There’s Always Something Brewing Article by David Scheller Some of them trim trees. Some of them clean houses. Some bake cookies. Others sell clothes. A few treat rheumatism. Eden Prairie is filled with helpful businesses. Their powers of assistance take so many forms that one could dedicate an entire magazine to advertising them. But out of all those local businesses, only one specializes in supplying that most miraculous and refreshing form of aid. “Beer,” said Michael Anderson...

Food + Beverage

T.J. Hooligan's

Your New Local Favorite Article by David Scheller For the Pros HEY! You there! Yes, you – the talented and aspiring professional who reads good magazines. Are you looking for a professional edge? Then I humbly request that you keep the following key to success a secret: IT’S TREATING YOURSELF TO T.J. HOOLIGAN’S! Like their neighbor Optum across the street, T.J. Hooligan’s is in the business of taking care of people. They just do it in a different way: with warm service, a full bar, and a...

Food + Beverage

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Where Every Bundt Is a Home Run Article by David Scheller The beverages? Perfectly chilled and just as refreshing. The hors d'oeuvres? No finer pigs have ever been blanketed. The main course? Delicious enough to throw your guests into reverential silence at first bite.  You’ve thrown one heck of a dinner party so far. Now to just serve the cake: some nondescript, unspecial thing you grabbed at the store. Oh no. Your guests make it apparent they don’t like the cake. No one asks for seconds...

Food + Beverage

Butcher and Bartender

Have Truck, Will Cater Article by David Scheller Your guests’ faculties of grace and civility would have them excuse you for presenting anything less than spectacular food at your upcoming special event.  But you – the host(ess) with the most(est) – cannot do that. You hate lackluster eats . Enter Butcher and Bartender: Eden Prairie locals Chris and Stephanie Jack’s gourmet food truck, which materializes wherever food must be special. “Our specialty cocktail-infused sausages have made a...

Health + Wellness

Family Podiatry Clinic

Comprehensive Foot and Ankle Care for Eden Prairie Article by David Scheller | Photography by Diane Wilke I’ve just written three overly long introductions to this article, each of which meanders toward the same point:  Your feet and ankles are important .  But then it occurred to me: You already know that .  They are so important, in fact, that you wouldn’t like to entrust their care to anyone less than a specialist; one whose purview spans the most complicated surgeries all the way...

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Flying Dutchman Spirits

We. Like. To Party. We Like, We Like to Party. Article by David Scheller Sure , Flying Dutchman Spirits distills fantastic liquors.  Sure , Flying Dutchman Spirits serves stuff-of-life cocktails in a comfy-airy-lots-of-natural-lighty kind of environment. Sure , Flying Dutchman Spirits’ secluded hidey hole and fantastic patio are right here in EP, just off Highway 212. Hold on a minute. Life-alteringly restorative rum, gin, vodka, crème de cacao, and other feel-goodiness potions …...