Restaurant Roundup: Breakfast for lunch, walleye sandwich, pasta battle
Jan. 8, 2026
The downtown location of Shenanigans Sports Bar & Grill has made a few menu changes. It’s no longer open earlier on the weekends with its EggSmack menu, but it has added “breakfast for lunch” options with some of the EggSmack favorites and the new Country Farm Sandwich. Those items are available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the weekend. The west-side Shenanigans still serves the EggSmack menu, but that will change soon to a menu that’s similar to the downtown restaurant, general manager Andy Rose said.
New entrees at the downtown Shenanigans include a 14-ounce, hand-cut rib eye with the restaurant’s signature house seasoning blend. There’s also Chicken Chislic, which is chunks of chicken grilled with peppers and onions. The new wing platter features eight traditional or boneless wings with a choice of wing sauce. All entrees are served with a choice of potato and veggies or a house salad.
Breadsmith is teaming up again with Remedy Brewing Co. for Spent Grain Bread. The bread is made with spent grain from Remedy’s brewing process and its Milk Stout beer. It’s available only on Fridays in January.
Roundhouse Brew Pub has a new featured menu.
The Dive’s sandwich of the month is a beer-battered walleye sandwich. It’s served with fries.
Here’s the featured menu for January at the Phillips Avenue Diner. The Croissant Royal is the diner’s entry in the Downtown Burger Battle.
The Saturday brunch featured item for January at R Wine Bar & Kitchen is Egg Breakfast Casserole. The dish is made with eggs, hash browns, sausage, peppers, onion, cheese and gluten-free bread. It comes with a choice of side and is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
R Wine Bar & Kitchen and Maribella Ristorante are in the midst of their annual competition instead of joining in the Downtown Burger Battle. The 2026 Pasta Battle: Sous Chef Edition is taking votes from customers through January. R Wine Bar is featuring Tonkatsu Ramen with rice noodles in pork broth topped with pork belly, shrimp, corn, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, nori and ajitama, which is a savory egg.
Maribella is serving The Cristiano, which is beet root pasta with a naked sauce, peppers, onions, Italian sausage and scallops. It’s topped with Parmesan cheese and a beet root powder dusting.
M.B. Haskett Delicatessen has a new featured dinner menu.
The lucy of the month at Crooked Pint Ale House is the Crooked Popper. The patty is stuffed with cream cheese, chopped bacon, American cheese and jalapenos. It’s topped with more jalapenos, cholua mayo, Monterey Jack cheese and haystack onions and is served on an egg bun with waffle fries for $12.
Remedy Brewing Co. has trimmed the Simply Sauced menu it introduced in December to accommodate the craziness of the Downtown Burger Battle. Also available, though, are five flatbreads, six appetizers and boneless wings.
Tinners Public House has new features for food and drink.
Check out the featured food and drink menus at Tailgators Grill & Bar in Brandon. The specials include an in-house burger battle because Tailgators isn’t competing in the Brandon Valley Area Burger Battle this month.
The six competitors in the Brandon Valley Area Burger Battle, which runs until Jan. 31, are 212 The Boiling Point, Annie’s Coffee Bar & Roastery, Bottoms Up, Chud’s Pub & Grub, The Gruff Plates + Pours and Red Rock Bar & Grill. To find details on the burgers and how to vote, visit brandonvalleychamber.com.
The Tasty for 2 featured menu is back at Granite City Food & Brewery. Diners can get one appetizer and two entrees for $12.50 per person. The Crispy Baja Fish Tacos are a new offering. There’s also a premium menu for $17.50 per person. Those appetizer choices are Margherita Flatbread, Crispy Brussels Sprouts, Asian Glazed Shrimp or two cups of soup/two salads. Entree options are Cajun Pasta, Chicken Tuscano, Crispy Asian Shrimp Tacos, Bedda Chedda Burger or Asian Chicken Salad.
IHOP now offers bottomless pancakes on a half-dozen breakfast combo meals. The offer, which is good through March 29, is for dine-in only.
Oh My Cupcakes is selling a special cupcake this month to help support the local nonprofit Call to Freedom. “They have a burn-away topper, so you can help – literally – ignite freedom,” the bakery said in a social media post.
Other featured cupcake flavors this month are Cherries in the Snow, Cookies & Cream Cheesecake, Old School, Blueberry Pancake, Caramel by the Sea, Cloud 9, Mocha Mousse, White Chocolate Mocha and gluten-friendly Lemon Drop. Caramel by the Sea also comes in a gluten-friendly version, and Cloud 9 also is available in GF and vegan.
Here are the new featured weekly flavors for ice cream this month at Stensland Family Farms.
Every year, The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co. gives customers a chance to vote on their favorite featured drinks of the year and then brings them back to the menu in January. Wakȟályapi Čík’ala, or Little Coffee, and Sounds Gay, I’m In were the people’s choice winners.
Here are the January featured drinks at Josiah’s Coffeehouse, Cafe & Bakery.
The Human Bean is featuring Olympic-themed drinks that will be available for a limited time. Also new are egg bites in two flavors: bacon and cheese, and three cheese. And the coffee kiosk is offering $1 off any food or drink order from noon to 5 p.m. on Mondays this month.
The new east-side Plaza Azteca has daily drink specials that take advantage of its full liquor license. It also has happy hour specials from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Altered Species Ales kicked off its annual chili contest last weekend. The free event is held every Saturday in January, starting at noon, with four contestants offering samples to customers. Winners from each week will compete in a final round Jan. 31. In addition, the brewery at the Western Mall also crafted variants of its Rally the Pack beer to go with the chilis, and those are available only on the weekend. Hot Honey is up this weekend, followed by Coffee on Jan. 17-18 and Cinnamon Roll on Jan. 24-25.
Changes in hours, service
- The Boozy Bakery at JJ’s Wine, Spirits & Cigars has lost its long-time lead baker and bakery manager, Kate Barker, to the accounting field, so owner Jean Slattery is taking a sabbatical to determine “what the next incarnation of The Boozy Bakery will look like going solo.” In the meantime, charcuterie boxes, dips and other items – but not desserts – will be available in the grab-and-go case.
- Because of January’s Downtown Burger Battle, Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse is open now on Tuesdays from 4 to 10 p.m. Glacial’s burger entry, which is made by The Black Sheep Food Truck, is available from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and also from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
- And C.H. Patisserie, which has a first-time entry in the Downtown Burger Battle, has added Monday hours. The shop is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The team starts selling burgers at 11 a.m. and then again at 3 p.m.
- Another first-time entrant also has changed its hours for the month to accommodate burger-making. North End Bakery & Deli is serving breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. and lunch from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. It’s also limiting the rest of the lunch menu to grab-and-go muffuletta and antipasto sandwiches, soup and salad.
- Dakota Craft Links has new winter hours: 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
- Online ordering is available now at the new east-side location of Pho Thai.
- Kingbird Coffee in Brandon is open later. New hours are 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
- The Human Bean is closing earlier until spring returns. New hours are 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
- Sugar Palace by Emily in Harrisburg is no longer open on Mondays. That means Monday’s Gluten-Friendly Day offerings are available now on Tuesdays. Those special items can always be ordered for other days. New hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
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