Restaurant Roundup: Oktoberfest season kick-off, ramen pop-up, BOGO offers
Sept. 11, 2025
Remedy Brewing Co. is celebrating its ticketed Bierfest and everyone-is-welcome Oktoberfest on Saturday. For $45, Bierfest offers unlimited sampling of German-inspired offerings from local breweries. Hours are noon to 3 p.m. Limited tickets are available and can be ordered here. The Oktoberfest party from noon to 10 p.m. includes games, a stein-holding competition, live music and a Home Brew Fest competition with free samples.
Remedy has brewed up its Oktoberfest marzen and Kickball sour berliner weisse, and a special food menu includes a beer brat, pork schnitzel sandwich, currywurst flatbread, giant pretzel and German chocolate cake. Find the day’s schedule here.
Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse is hosting a Ramen Bros pop-up at 5 p.m. Saturday. The menu includes four options: pork tonkotsu, Late Summer, chicken shoyu and beef birria. The bar is making two signature cocktails.
Baking up a Storm at Lake Lorraine has a new menu for fall. New items are the turkey apple gouda grilled cheese, chorizo quesadilla and the chicken salad wrap.
The bakery also has created the Breakfast Box. It includes a combination of 24 items with egg tarts, kolaches, muffins and pin wheels with the chef’s choice of flavors. Orders for the $80 box must be placed 30 hours in advance, with pickup available as early as 6:30 a.m.
Look’s Marketplace has a few additions to the menu: smoked pork loin Cuban, Hot Italian and Beet & Ciabatta sandwiches and a grilled salmon lo mein.
The taco of the month at Dahlia Kitchen + Bar is Bang Bang Shrimp made with tempura shrimp, bang bang sauce, napa cabbage slaw, green onion curls and peanuts.
Next door at sister restaurant Big Sioux Burger, the burger of the month is Thai Chicken. A chili-garlic chicken patty with scallions and cilantro is topped with a cucumber, red onion and Thai peanut sauce
The brunch offering for September at R Wine Bar & Kitchen is Scottish Breakfast. It’s available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays for dine-in or take-out.
Breadsmith is baking up a different type of focaccia every Friday in September. This week is Margherita, Sept. 19 will be Verde Ora and Sept. 26 will be Mediterraneo.
Harvester Kitchen by Bryan has introduced a Chef’s Menu that features “reimagined and refined” dishes it served after opening four years ago. The restaurant also updated the Summer Menu with a few different seasonal choices. See the menus here.
Cracker Barrel has a BOGO offer this Friday through Sunday on the Old Timer’s Breakfast. It includes eggs, grits, biscuits and gravy, sausage or bacon, fried apples or hashbrown casserole.
To celebrate the return of college football season, Chipotle is introducing a Wear Your Football Jersey promotion after 5 p.m. Monday. Wear a college football jersey to the restaurant and get a free entree with the purchase of an entree. There’s a limit of five free menu items per check.
The first Crooked Pint Ale House opened on Sept. 12, so the regional chain has created its own holiday: National Juicy Lucy Day. Get any lucy for $9.12 on Friday – dine-in only.
McNally’s Irish Pub has a new $11 lunch special that’s a pick-two combo. Get a grilled cheese, BLT or hot Rueben; soup of the day; or garden salad.
Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe has two featured sandwiches this month: Simply Philly and Cuban Brisket. Through Monday, buy one of the sandwiches and two drinks and get a free entrée. Use code FREEBITE if you order online.
Pomegranate Market has a new hot bar happy hour. From 6 to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, everything is $10 a pound while supplies last.
Through Sept. 20, Qboda rewards members can dip into daily giveaways for Diptember, including free guacamole and chips Tuesday and free queso and chips on Sept. 20 with the purchase of any entree.
Coffea Roasterie’s fall menu is here with returning favorites Butterscotch, Charlie Brown, Old Smoke, apple cider, pumpkin bread and ginger molasses cookies available at all locations. Each coffee shop also has a featured drink: Great Pumpkin Latte at Dawley Farm Village, Aspen Glow at downtown and Apple Crisp Oatmilk Latte at Louise Avenue.
The crew at The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co. headed up the street to Nyberg’s Ace to buy a lug of peaches to create one of two featured drinks for September. Peaches n’ Rizz is an Italian cream soda with saffron threads steeped in a peach simple syrup. The other drink, Happy Camper, is graham cracker milk, mocha, toasted mallow and a shot of espresso. Get it hot or iced.
DaDa Gastropub’s cocktail flight for September includes a pear martini, huckleberry Moscow mule, apple cosmopolitan and blood orange margarita.
BibiSol Kitchen was featured in the August edition of Midwest Living magazine, noting that it earned a James Beard Award nomination in its first year. Read the Q&A with co-owner Marcella Salas, who was a semifinalist for Best Emerging Chef, here. That’s also where you’ll find a recipe Salas shared for camote en dulce, which are candied and spiced sweet potatoes.
Plum’s Cooking Co. has a new offering: Gathered by Plum’s, a box of seasonally selected and locally sourced items. The inaugural meal kit, which can be ordered through Sunday (more than what’s shown in the photo), features ingredients to make brunch and dinner, along with a cheese board and a cocktail mixer.
Changes in hours, service
- Lalibela Restaurant has discontinued its weekend buffet.
- Sweet Cheeks has new hours for the school year: 2 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 2 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, noon to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.
- Squealer’s Smoke Shack in Tea is closed now on Mondays for fall and winter.
- Poppy’s Popcorn Co. is open now on Sundays. New hours through Memorial Day are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
- Central Dakota Perk in Harrisburg is added Sunday hours of 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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