Jan. 20, 2022

Emer-GenZ Eats & Treats is temporarily closed while it seeks to find another location. The take-and-bake meal service moved into the kitchen at Liberty Hall on South Minnesota Avenue with its change in ownership last summer. Customers were able to pick up the meals at The Fruit Truck Market, which also is in the building. “Due to circumstances beyond our control, we will no longer be serving out of our current location,” the business said in a social media post. “We will be closed while we explore some different options for our business. We hope to find a solution in the coming weeks and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.”

New owner to move Harrisburg prepared-meal business to Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls Food Co+op’s hot bar now serves roasted chicken for dinner. Get a whole or half chicken or one- or two-piece dinners with a choice of two sides. The chicken is available from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays in the natural foods grocery store at 18th and Minnesota.

Crave American Kitchen & Sushi Bar has partnered with Minnesota-based Fresh Vine Wine to offer special lunch and dinner wine and food pairings. Lunch and dinner offerings include a keto tuna roll, mahi mahi and shrimp scampi with zucchini noodles. For supper, there’s also a flank steak served with cauliflower puree, Brussels sprouts and chimichurri sauce. The restaurant in the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown carries Fresh Vine Wine’s low-carb, low-calorie and low-sugar Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, which are made in California. Founders of the company include “Dancing with the Stars” judge Julianne Hough and “Vampire Diaries” actress Nina Dobrev. The special menu choices typically change the second week of the month.

Check out what’s new on the menu at Sickies Garage.

Tavern 180 is making Dry January appealing by offering all of its craft cocktails in a mocktail version. The restaurant just started carrying Seedlip, a line of nonalcoholic spirits. In addition to the cocktails on the menu, Tavern 180 at 69th and Western has several other recipes it can make, general manager Shawna Severson said. The mocktails will be available year-round.

The new Mary’s Mountain Cookies is taking pre-orders for its Valentine’s Day packages. The bakery on North Phillips also just added two of the cookies in the boxes to its seasonal lineup: cherry chocolate chip and red velvet.

Pomegranate Market has started carrying locally made Salas Salsas, and the mother-and-daughter team of Patricia Burbine and Marcela Salas will be at the natural foods grocery store at 57th and Louise from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday with samples.

A few tickets remain for the second annual Hungry Hearts Chefs Dinner on Feb. 11 at The Barrel House. The event features top chefs Justin Sutherland of St. Paul, Joe Flamm of Chicago, Joe Sasto of California, David Viana of New Jersey, Brian Young of Boston, Jon Frizzell of Minneapolis and The Barrel House’s Jesse Severson. Each chef will prepare a course that is paired with one of five Buffalo Trace Antique Collection bourbons and two other select bourbons! Tickets are $500, and all proceeds go to help provide students with lunch money, supplies, winter apparel and snacks.

Two beers from Fernson Brewing Co. have won Good Food Awards. Lion’s Paw, a lager, and Curio, a sour ale, were among 15 beers in the U.S. that were recognized.

Changes in service, hours

The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co. will be closed Jan. 24-31 for its annual winter break.

The Exit 5 Bar and Grill at SpringBrooke Events, Golf & Grill in Beaver Creek, Minnesota, is closed for renovations and will reopen sometime in the spring. The events center remains open and continues to book events. The improvements are coming as the nine-hole golf course prepares to open this summer after being closed since 2007. Rick Gourley of Sioux Falls bought the property in 2018 and has been working since then to reopen it.

Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.

The Attic owners to add restaurant in Brandon

Behind the burger, local beef and producer partnerships shine

Renner Corner Meats to expand to keep up with growing beef jerky sales