News About ‘5-8 Club’
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Mad Men's back, and there is a Jucy Lucy connection. Seriously.
While the NY Times didn't get the spelling right, they did manage to tough on Minneapolis' contribution to international cuisine in their interview with Vincent Kartheiser, better known to Mad Men fans as Peter Campbell:
EATING I had a Juicy ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
The Hennepin County Library's Tumblr account has a write-up of visits to the homes of the two rival originals: Matt's and 5-8 Club.
Also, bonus pics of Matt's Bar from 1953. If those pics were all you had to go on, do you think you could find Matt's today? Some things ...
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Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Illuminous 3's new video for Midtown Livin' breaks down life in Midtown Minneapolis, including taking on the Matt's vs. 5-8 Club debate at 1:20:
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
Free Juicy Lucys (this afternoon), new recipes, contests, good times.
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
The ongoing debate over where the Jucy Lucy was invented has made its way to Wikipedia, where an anonymous editor recently rewrote history by changing the inventing restaurant from Matt's Bar to the 5-8 Club. Notice the removals of Matt's on the left replaced by the 5-8 Club on the ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
ambryo explains that your day is far from shot if you go to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts only to find out that the exhibit you planned to see is sold out. The fallback? A Juicy Lucy from the 5-8 Club.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
This may be the first jucy lucy jingle.
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
A recent edit to Wikipedia's Jucy Lucy entry slipped in a plug for the 5-8 Club:
It lasted a full 20 minutes on Wikipedia before the page was reverted to its former self.
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
CityPages' Kevin Hoffman stumbled across a filming of a Man vs Food at the 5-8 club this past Friday.
Minneapolis/st. Paul - City Pages - The Hot Dish - Man vs. Food visits 5-8 Club, Gasthof
The line was out the door, and we soon saw why: We'd blundered onto a TV ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
The PioneerPress reports that St Paul will soon be home to another establishment serving a Juicy Lucy.
At Blue Door Pub, they dare to tinker with Juicy Lucy
Groveland Tap vets Jeremy Woerner and Patrick McDonough are coming up with new ideas for the Minnesota classic — a hamburger patty with ...
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