Lunalux featured in new book

eat.shop twin cities, a new city guide highlighting locally owned shops and restaurants, includes two pages about Lunalux. This well-designed, photo-heavy folio features independent businesses that are unique to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area (no mention of enclosed shopping malls, pro sports teams, or other pedestrian attractions). Heavenly Soles, Cooks of Crocus Hill, Robot Love and Via’s Vintage are among the other unique boutiques listed, while the dining half steers hungry readers towards institutions like Sebastian Joe’s, Al’s Breakfast and Bryant Lake Bowl. There are many nooks in eat.shop that I’ve never heard of too, so both out-of-towners and Minnesota-for-lifers (like me) would do good to keep this compact book in their glove box.

It’s quite an honor to be included in such a list of local gems, but it gets better. Lunalux merits a mention on author Anna Blessing’s list of the twenty best things about the Twin Cities (“Lunalux letterpress postcards” – see page 4). You’re telling me that the very best this town offers includes the jucy lucy at Matt’s Bar, cinnamon buns from Isle’s Bun & Coffee, and… the postcards we mail to you every month?!?! Three cheers, please! Finally, someone else understands!

eat.shop twin cities is available at Lunalux for $14.95. This is the latest in a series of eat.shop city guides published by Cabazon Books – guides have been published for at least a dozen other cities, including Brooklyn, Portland, Paris and Vancouver.