Ask a Local: Minnesota

[Music] Minnesota means land of sky reflecting waters it's just such a great place to bring your family and to relax and get out into nature we just love it here the area we're at it's called the Iron Range in the summer here we fish a lot I mean land of 10,000 lakes right and one of our favorites is to catch walleye there the best-tasting fish I've ever had the boys really love it it's a great feast then there's all these hiking trails there's a lookout mountain that you can go up on and see some of

the overlooks in the area in the winter we have a lot of really fun things to do you have your ice fishing your ice skating hockey is huge around here with the Hockey Hall of Fame the world's largest acoustic snowshoeing snowboarding and skiing and curling the people here are very unique a lot of them were immigrants that came to the area and did the mining right around the turn of century there's small communities all over the place and they have little festivals that gives the area really Scandinavian feel some of the music in the area

is a little different focus really a lot of fun you have this kind of upbeat music kind of boom some of the must-try Foods in this area our sauerkraut polishes and then porchetta you can only find porchetta here it's like nowhere else in the entire world while you're here you really got a try a pasty it's kind of like a meat pie and what they would do is they'd actually take these things and they cook them they put them in the miners boots and he would carry them to work in that pair of boots they're

not served in boots anymore so you don't have to worry about you can get past these at betty's pies and while you're there you really should try out that milkshake that's made out of an entire pie you take it and they blend it up and put it in this milkshake it's amazing Minneapolis is a very creative place we've got a lot of different arts districts uptown art district where the Minneapolis Institute of Art is the Walker Art Center is there where it's just by the sculpture garden is towards Northeast there's a lot of little smaller

galleries that have more local artists and musicians and all sorts of murals we've got a lot of micro breweries around Northeast whose prize brewery which is one of the only places in America that you can actually go feather bowling you should definitely check it out there's also a ton of really interesting small businesses here in Minneapolis that I guarantee you won't find anywhere else there's memory lanes which is a bowling alley that actually has concerts like right above the lanes there's galactic pizza that you have to order and have them deliver it to you because

they deliver in superhero costumes and then of course there's Betty dangers where they have a rotating patio and all sorts of things to see there's a ton of food and drink around Minneapolis the bachelor farmer it's this really cool restaurant that sources everything locally but they like to create more modern dishes with old Scandinavian influences there's actually this really cool little speakeasy bar called both dads Emporium they actually have to go through an alleyway and find the light to get to the speakeasy walking down Duluth you're gonna see a lot of friendly faces there's always

something going on live music performing arts we have a lot of special dinners with restaurants and far more collaborations we love seeing new people and welcoming them to our city and showing off how awesome it is to be here we love to collaborate in Duluth my favorite one right now is to his hockey company and that pal Brewing collaborated with local ingredients and they made a cold press here and it is really good the reason we have so many distilleries and breweries and towns because we're on the Western point of Lake Superior which is the

biggest and best of all the Great Lakes so we have the best fresh water and that makes the best beer and spirits it looks good for basically anything you want to do anything you can do on land we try to do on water Korky Minnesota thing is our hot dish my favorite version of a hot dish is actually tacos from the food trucks the Ramblers it's nachos and haircuts mixed together to make this really delicious cheesy dish it's amazing you should try it you like to be outdoors in the winter if it is winter village

it's a weekend full of beer and bonfires barnyard animals and the shopping locally we love live music and Duluth feel to everything from folk to rock Bob Dylan was born here after all there are a lot of cool venues in town red herring has a show every night the Clyde and then Bayfront is an outdoor music festival that's right on the water you'd only pick one spot my personal favorite is Sir Ben they have a piano so that's always somebody willing to play a song with you or for you jam sessions usually break out before

then and it's definitely the most chill place in town to listen to music and have a beer [Music]