Brewhouse serves up North Shore flavors
This article first appeared in the Wave/Duluth News Tribune on April 21, 2005.
by Tom Wilkowske
When Stan Burns goes out to eat, he likes to taste flavors from the North Country.
There’s only one place where he can get smoked Lake Superior trout, Deer River wild rice and a chocolate cake laced with a Duluth stout all in one meal: Fitger’s Brewhouse.
“I tend to like the stuff that’s local, the lake trout, the wild rice,” he said.
Lighthouse’s breaded herring recalls the Shorecrest
Note: this article originally appeared Aug. 23, 2007 in the Wave/Duluth News Tribune. The Lighthouse Restaurant closed in July 2011 d reopened later that year in Knife River as The Lighthouse at Emily’s.
by Tom Wilkowske
Dennis Schultz can’t get enough fish. The avid hunter of king salmon, panfish and walleye likes to cook his own quarry and dine out. When he does the latter, he orders – yes – more fish.
One of his favorite recent finds is the breaded herring fillets at the Lighthouse on Homestead, a new North Shore restaurant that has a few old-school, supper-club style items on its menu. “It kind of has some of the flavor of the old Shorecrest,” Schultz said.
Northern Lights Roadhouse offers Lake Superior grub and views
This review originally appeared in the Duluth News Tribune on Nov. 1, 2007.
by Tom Wilkowske
Asking Marie Frey to choose among her favorite dishes at the Northern Lights Roadhouse in Beaver Bay is like asking her to name her favorite volunteer activity. She wouldn’t give any of them up.
Luckily, we worked out a deal: I would have the Hunter’s Pie on this cold, windy October day, and she would have the North Shore Sampler ” a little walleye, a little wild rice-roasted red pepper quiche and a little spring green salad with mango salsa.
