Restaurant Roundup: New sandwiches, pizzas, huckleberry ribs, purple cold foam
July 10, 2025
Bread & Circus Sandwich Kitchen has several menu changes, including the return of the pork belly gyro, which will be around longer than a typical rotation, co-owner Barry Putzke said. The Hawaiian Plate is back, switching out with ramen for the warmer months. Carne des Res is a new sandwich with braised beef, fried onion, kale, queso fresco, chimichurri and au jus aioli on naan. Other sandwich offerings are the Crab Rangoon Melt, vegetarian Buffalo Seitan, which can be made vegan or served as a salad, and Korean Katsu with a fried pork tenderloin topped with steamed egg, kimchi aioli, dau gia and bibimbap sauce on Texas toast.
Three new pizzas are on the menu at Nunzio’s Pizza Kitchen: Porcini Mushroom, Summer Veggie Pie and Fig & Ham. Order online anytime; pick up from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday at Nunzio’s Food Hall through the north door at Harvester Kitchen by Bryan.
La Luna Cafe has two new breakfast pizzas: Sausage Scrambler with scrambled eggs, sausage, mozzarella and house salsa on the signature in-house crust and Harvest Breakfast with hard-boiled eggs, sweet peppers, fresh tomatoes, cheese blend and house salsa, sprinkled with hemp seeds and black pepper on a cauliflower crust.
Great Shots has several new menu items: a hand-breaded crispy chicken sandwich with house-brined pickles, breaded and fried shrimp with Thai ginger sauce, The Bunker pizza featuring housemade Italian sausage on made-from-scratch dough, Cajun spring rolls and a Southwest chicken wrap.
The new menu at Remedy Brewing Co. has four additions: Caesar salad; cheese bread; Sirloin Melt with horseradish aioli, candied jalapenos and cheese on garlic butter toasted French bread; and Veggie Lovers Flatbread with bell pepper, onion, mushroom, olive and roasted tomato.
New to the 406 Summer Fare menu at Mackenzie River Pizza, Grill & Pub is Huck Sticky Ribs with huckleberry barbecue sauce. Returning favorites include Harvest Cherry Pizza, Huckleberry Salad, Big Sky Bison Burger, Going-to-the-Sun Flatbread, Treasure State Tacos with bison and bison chili. For dessert, try the Doc Holliday cookie and huckleberry ice cream skillet or huckleberry cheesecake. The menu is available through August.
Granite City Food & Brewery has introduced its Sizzlin’ Summer food and cocktails. Start off with Sizzlin’ Whipped Feta Dip, and end with Peach Blackberry Crumb Cake or Toasted S’mores Sundae. In between that, choices include Honey-Lime Street Corn Salad, Bao Barbacoa Tacos and Birria Street Tacos.
Drinks include the Sun-Down & Dirty, The Salty Beach, Life’s a Peach and Pear-adise.
New menu items at Blarney Stone Pub include Chicken Pot Pie, Crispy Chicken Tender Melt, Balsamic Steak Salad, Hangover Burger and Chicken & Chips.
The July sandwich of the month at Alibi Bar & Grill is Chicken ‘n Tot Wrap with fried chicken, tater tots, cheddar, lettuce and tomato in a warm flour tortilla.
Next door at The Scapegoat, the pizza of the month is The Great Dane with salami, pepperoncini, red onion, tomato and mozzarella over housemade roasted garlic sauce.
The taco of the month at Dahlia Kitchen & Bar is the Midwest Picnic with bratwurst, street corn, cabbage slaw, cotija, cilantro and chile-lime aioli.
The monthly featured menu at Chef Lance’s on Phillips now includes a la carte pricing. The full menu is available too.
R Wine Bar & Kitchen has two dessert features this month: S’mores Creme Brulee and Mango Heaven with layers of mango and angel food cake and finished with whipped cream.
Featured specials at Stensland Family Farms this month are the cotton candy-flavored Carnival Craze Shake and a coffee lovers’ sundae with dips of Caramel Coffee Bliss and How Now Brown Cow, drizzled with fudge and caramel and topped with whipped cream and chocolate flakes.
And here are the rotating weekly ice cream flavors at Stensland.
The newest limited-time bundtlet flavor at Nothing Bundt Cakes is Banana Pudding Cake.
Featured drinks until the first Friday in August at The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co. are Ube Bee and Bury Hisbiscuits. Ube Bee features the purple yam in cold foam on top of an iced latte flavored with black sesame, maple and brown sugar. The berry hibiscus tea latte is caffeine-free and served cold.
After a successful debut June 21 for the Atlas Social car show, Union Social has decided to host it every other Saturday this summer. The next one is this week from 9 a.m. to noon. The restaurant at the family entertainment center will be serving breakfast burritos, pastries, coffee, bloody marys and mimosas. Air Madness and Union Social will both open at 10 a.m. for the kids to play.
North End Deli & Bakery in the Jones421 Building is hosting a ramen pop-up from chef Duy Pham from 5 p.m. Saturday until sold out. Options include chicken shoyu, pork tonkotsu, mushroom miso and beef birria.
Get tickets in advance for Club David’s rooftop seafood boil party at 7 p.m. Sunday. The price for the Low Country-style meal with crab, shrimp, sausage, corn and more is $39.
Sprint car racing legend Doug Wolfgang is the people’s choice for the next addition to the Wall of Notoriety mural at Sunny’s Pizzeria. Other contenders were LPGA golfer Kris Tschetter and college football player and coach Joe Salem.
Changes in hours, service
- Big Poppa’s Pizza has new hours of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. In-house delivery service is available now.
- The east-side location of Oh My Cupcakes has new hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
- Starting Monday, Sweet Scoops Ice Cream & Bakery in Dell Rapids will be opening later each day. New hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Tailgators Grill & Bar in Brandon has stopped serving its weekday lunch buffets.
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