Michael Venske

(Full Disclosure*: This is a snapshot of my day…in words. Don’t read it if you’re not interested in learning about the little things that made Sunday great for me.) Hey world, what a day! Shortly after showering this morning at 10:40 I was cooking pasta in a towel. Medium shells and 100% sunshine yellow cotton [...]

The following are the condensed minutes from this week’s International Breakfast Eater’s Club meeting. 1) Introductions / Welcome Invitation to Other Diners. 2) Roll Call. Present: Founders Micah & Michael. Guest of Honor: None. 3) Previous week’s meeting minutes: Forgotten and lost. 4) Reports. Breakfast joint: Citizen Cafe. With the exception of one other diner, [...]

Yesterday morning IBEC met at one of our favorite breakfast joints in St. Paul. Unfortunately, I realized soon-after our food arrived that my stomach needed “to vent” to the higher power of porcelain.Instantly, I became fearful of what would happen in the tiny bathroom. I wasn’t feeling well, but I felt even worse knowing that [...]

More IBEC reviews are coming! Featuring: Good Day Cafe Moose&Sadie’s Coffeehouse Colossal Cafe Ideal Diner Bonnie’s Cafe Milda’s Cafe Zumbro Cafe Birchwood Cafe Mickey’s Diner Jay’s Cafe Louisiana Cafe Maria’s Cafe Hot Plate Clicquot Club Cafe Butter Al’s Breakfast Manning’s Restaurant Wilde Roast Cafe Sunnyside Up The Egg & I French Meadow Victor’s 1959 Our [...]

(This morning the International Breakfast Eater’s Club attempted to meet at the Band Box Diner. However, due to irregular hours that weren’t posted, the Diner was closed and IBEC was forced to make a quick decision for a new location. Traditionally, IBEC has refused to revisit breakfast joints that haven’t left us hungry for more. [...]