Restaurant Roundup: Bakery celebration, waffle bar’s return
Aug. 29, 2024
Baking up a Storm is celebrating its one-year anniversary for its storefront at Lake Lorraine with discounts. Next week, Tuesday through Friday, buy one baked good and get a second one for half-price. The offer is for the bakery’s signature kolaches and for cookies, bars and cupcakes. Baking up a Storm is the lobby The Blu at Lorraine apartment building on the north shore of the development’s lake.
The all-you-can-eat waffle bar at Yakkity Yak Coffee Shack is back from its summer break. Hours are 8 to 11 a.m. every Saturday.
The Never Ending Pasta Bowl is back at Olive Garden for a limited time. Customers get to pick their pasta and sauce, with an extra charge for the addition of meatballs, Italian sausage or the Crispy Chicken Fritta.
Stensland Family Farms is discontinuing its frozen pizzas, so the remaining inventory is marked down to $7 each. They’re available at the retail store on West 41st Street and the farm store near Larchwood, Iowa.
Roam Kitchen + Bar has added more than a dozen items to the menu. Some of the new offerings include blackened catfish, fried walleye, bison Swedish meatballs, a lamb shank with blueberry mint jam, smoked-brisket nachos and a pastrami sandwich on caraway rye. See the full menu here.
Check out the new menu at Paramount Cocktails + Food.
Gibs Sports Bar has added a weekly prime rib special to go along with Thursday night football. The meal is served from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursdays for $20.
Look’s Marketplace has added fresh-shucked oysters by the half-dozen or dozen to its Sunday Steak Dinner Club menu. They’re served with a seasonal mignonette sauce. Check out the full menu here.
The honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich is back for a limited-time at Chick-fil-A, along with a spicy version this year. And for the first time in 13 years, the banana pudding milkshake has returned.
Fat Daddy’s Smokehouse in The Gaslight Lounge has added Monday hours and daily specials that start next week. Mondays: $2 off pizzas, Tuesdays: $2.50 tacos, Wednesdays: buy one burger get one half-price, Thursdays: $1 off wings, and Fridays: back back ribs. Specials are available from 5 to 9 p.m.
Coffea Roasterie is donating 10 percent of sales Friday to LifeScape. The money will help support the nonprofit’s Journey of Hope campaign aimed at opening a new children’s services campus in northwest Sioux Falls.
Annie’s in Garretson will be open for brunch Sunday. Owner Anne Webber said she’s typically closed on Sundays but opens once a month to serve breakfast flatbreads, burritos and Belgian waffles with strawberries. Mimosas and bloody marys also are available. Hours are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Follow the cafe on Facebook to see posts about upcoming dates.
Cracker Barrel has added several menu items for fall, including one with the restaurant’s signature fried apples. They’re the centerpiece of the Fried Apple French Toast Bake, which comes with a choice of sausage or bacon. There’s a new Hashbrown Casserole Shepherd’s Pie with pot roast. For dessert, warm cinnamon apples are part of the Southern Apple Cobbler.
Check out Dairy Queen’s fall Blizzard lineup. Note the obligatory pumpkin offering.
Here’s a look at the fall drinks at Zooks Coffee Bar in Tea.
Caribou Coffee’s fall menu, which was released today, features new honeycrisp drinks. There’s a Honeycrisp Apple Caramel High Rise, Honeycrisp Apple Caramel Espresso Shaker, Honeycrisp Apple Caramel Oatmilk Steamer, Honeycrisp Apple Lemonade Energy Drink and Honeycrisp Apple Energy Drink. And, of course, there are pumpkin drinks. New food offerings are the Eggs Benedict Sandwich and Apple Cinnamon Pastry.
Severance Brewing Co.’s second annual Kolsch Fest will feature traditional Kolsch service with the German-style beer and a German-inspired meal prepared by Harry Schlisner of food truck Harry’s Yellow Submarine. The event is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8. The three-course dinner will start with German sausage, pretzel bites and mustards for dipping. The main course is schnitzel, German cucumber salad and German mashed potatoes. Apfelstrudel will be served for dessert. Tickets include three drinks and can be ordered here.
Changes in hours, service
- If you’ve been wondering where Big Rig BBQ has gone, the food truck has relocated temporarily to Texas, where one of the family’s daughters, Avalon, goes to college. “We will be back in SF. We didn’t move,” Nichole Brenner posted on Big Rig’s Facebook page. “This awesome opportunity came about, and our daughter (who will be doing a lot of the smoking) is really excited too. Works great with her college schedule.” They’re expected to return to Sioux Falls next summer for pop-ups and large events.
- Polar Bites has cut back hours to two days a week for fall and winter. The downtown storefront will be open from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
- As the catering side of Umami Cafe & Catering grows, the cafe at Signature Flight Support at Joe Foss Field has new hours: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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