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Local Services

CottageCare Housecleaning: Twin Cities Housecleaning at Its Best

CottageCare is on a mission. The locally owned housecleaning service wants everyone in the Twin Cities to live in immaculately clean homes – without having to clean them themselves.CottageCare’s mission goes far beyond dispatching earnest, hard-working, and thoroughly vetted and trained professionals to their clients’ homes. CottageCare doesn’t solely owe their 4.8 star rating on Google reviews to their exhaustive 172-item cleaning checklist, or their foundational commitment to exclusively using...

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Shopping

The Mustard Seed: Holiday Gifts With Heart

There is only one good use for the internet: reading interesting articles about fun places to go holiday shopping near Eden Prairie, such as The Mustard Seed Landscaping & Garden Center.The internet certainly is no place for shopping (unless you are specifically shopping for plants and landscaping materials on The Mustard Seed’s website). There is no guarantee of authenticity or quality. The delivery person, through no admitted fault of their own, may deliver the thing badly broken, and send...

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Local Services

College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving: Eden Prairie’s Most Convenient Way to Move

Got a whole lot of stuff that needs moving in Eden Prairie? Don’t move it yourself! Let another back do the heavy lifting. Let another brain handle the logistics while you’re at it. Request a free estimate from College HUNKS today!Eden Prairie Moving ServicesCollege HUNKS is the full-service moving company that truly goes any distance. Are your starting point and destination both Eden Prairie? College HUNKS’ hourly service will make your move easy and affordable. The local moving company...

Education

Culture Through Cuisine

Leadership Begins With Understanding People Article by David Scheller The United States’ Latino population exceeded 68 million in 2024. Their total contribution to the GDP that same year? Greater than all of Japan: $4.4 trillion. That’s trillion , with a t . If you lead a business or other organization – and you’re reading this article in your mother tongue – then that presents a challenge. How do you connect with such valuable consumers? And how can you better incorporate such valuable...

Food + Beverage

Redstone American Grill

Meet Chef Carlos Article by David Scheller | Photography by Real Media MN I worked in a high-end restaurant kitchen some years ago. Chef Jeff, bristly yet brilliant, was its king. He once critiqued a sous chef’s hummus so unfavorably that she quit in tears right on the spot. But my heavens, could that man cook. One day, Chef Jeff learned that one of his cooks had committed the unspeakable offense of attending cooking school. “ Ha ,” he sneered over a half-constructed salmon crêpe. “You wasted...

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Office Golf

America’s Largest Golf Simulator Establishment Is So Much More Article by David Scheller GO PLAY GOLF IN THE SNOW AND ICE. It’s an unsurpassable experience if you enjoy: Getting snow and ice inside your mittens Losing your ball constantly, because some genius at Titleist decided to make golf balls the same color as snow and ice Slipping on snow and ice, which may give you valid cause to patronize fine local businesses such as Cadence Chiropractic, Family Podiatry Clinic, and Summit...

Life + Culture

Coffee, Causes & Conversation

The Eden Prairie Community Foundation and Helping Paws Unite the Nonprofit Community Article by David Scheller What is a nexus? A Japanese luxury car? No. You’re thinking of Ninfiniti. A nexus is a connection between people, things, or ideas. For example, Eden Prairie Lifestyle is your nexus to every business in the southwest metro worthy of your patronage. You’ll find many such nexuses in the commercial sector. You just happen to be holding the best one. Go ahead. Feel that high-quality...

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Baker's Ribs

The Taste of Texas, Brought North by a Native Article by Bill Scheller | Photography by Julie Hawkins Back in 1993, a little bit of Texas landed in Eden Prairie.  The Lone Star State came to Minnesota when native Al Killion brought his barbecue expertise to a new outpost of Baker’s Ribs, the small Texas chain where he learned the pitmaster’s trade. Since then, a loyal local clientele has come to love the Texan take on St. Louis-style pork ribs, beef brisket, pork butt, chicken, and turkey...

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Pho Mai

Vietnamese Food. Pho Real. Article by David Scheller Cần Thơ? Too far; can’t go. Hải Phòng? Flight there’s too long. Hà Nội? Not conveniently located. Ợh bỡy. It seems there’s a downside to living in Eden Prairie after all. It’s nowhere near any Vietnamese cities, and therefore no nearer to authentic Vietnamese cuisine… …until 2023, that is. With the grand opening of Pho Mai at Asia Mall, delish Viet treats no longer lie heart-rendingly far from our border. It is the second of...

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Pizza Novara

Your New Favorite Pizza Article by David Scheller Think back to your fondest childhood memories. The dances. The parties. The little league victories. The family dinners. The days when the school lunch ladies were really cooking. Now, try to visualize what you ate in each of those happy scenes. A whirl of red and gold coalesces in your mind’s eye. It gives form to an image. It’s very faint, at first, but refining increasingly. Ah. You see it now, plain as day. It is pizza – that...