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On the road in Wabasha
A new restaurant debuts.
Planning to check out Lake Pepin's 100-Mile Garage Sale this weekend? Stop in Wabasha to try out a new destination restaurant, Vinifera. It opens Saturday in the riverfront space once occupied by Nosh, which decamped to Lake City a year ago.
Michael Murray-John, most recently chef at Seven Pines Lodge in western Wisconsin, is featuring a wine bar and a retail shop in which guests can purchase bottles and consume them on the spot with small plates of Mediterranean comfort food — coq au vin, braised lamb shanks, steamed mussels — selling for $6-$15.
Vinifera (pronounced Vi-NIF-era) is on Main Street in the shadow of the Mississippi River bridge, 1-651-565-4171 (no web site yet).
Last updated on April 29, 2008