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Whenever visiting a new breakfast spot, we’re always careful to check if corned-beef hash is on the menu. If it is, the inevitable question of whether it is real hash gets asked. The exchange is some variation of this:
Matt (aka the corned-beef hash addict): “Is your hash from a can, or made from scratch?”
Server: “Ah . . . let me go check.”
Matt (to the rest of the table): “If they have to ask, it’s from a can.”
Server (comes back from the kitchen): It’s from a can, but it’s the good kind. I really like it.”
Matt: Oh. I’ll have the eggs benedict.
And so went the conversation at Maggie’s. Let’s take a step back for a moment though: the small crew here at TwinCitiesBreakfast are not food snobs – not really even “foodies.” But there really is no reason for serving corned-beef hash from a can. Well, maybe if you’re camping out of your van at Float Rite Park for Ozzfest -- but not at a restaurant in Wayzata.
Cooked corned beef will last a few days in the refrigerator – and (if you must) a couple months in the freezer. It isn’t that hard to chop up some onions and potatoes (man, use frozen cubed ones if you must) and fry them up with some thawed beef. Better yet, if you’re a place like Maggie’s, and you’ve served roast beef the night before – and while it’s not corned beef – it will be so much better than whatever that was in that can.
As for the rest of the food, it’s average and predictable, as is the décor and setting. It does have a little Minnesota charm to it though, which mostly emanates from the customers – retired couples and their neighbors that have been going to Maggie’s for years. I’m sure they swear by the corned-beef hash, but they probably think the shredded iceberg lettuce served with the Mexican omelet is good too.
Posted: 01/01/08 by Peter Kastler
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