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| Enjoy
the dishes on lunch, club & dinner menus designed and orchestrated by our passionate
chef, Jack Riebel. |
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bar menu is simply a good time with good food. |
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| Jack has been cooking in the Twin
Cities for the past twenty years and has firmly established
himself as one of Minnesota's premier chefs. He was Chef
at La Belle Vie in Stillwater and Executive Sous Chef at
Goodfellow's, which topped the Twin Cities' Zagat food
ratings for 10 years running. Chef Jack has cooked for
the Mikhail Gorbachev Dinner at the Governor’s Mansion,
the National Taste of the N.F.L. Super Bowl event for Share
Our Strength, and made multiple visits to the James Beard
House in New York. Jack also won the 2005 Masters in the
Marketplace Celebrity Chef Cook Off and the national 2006
American Cheese Society's "Iron Man Cook Off." |
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"Jack Riebel is one of those chefs who every chef in town knows and respects" - Dara Moskowicz, Minnesota Monthly, July 2008
Fifty people, products, places and ideas that underline why Minnesota is the place for food lovers
#8 • "Musical luminaries always seem to grab top billing at the Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant, but the guy who really deserves to see his name in lights is its equally talented chef, Jack Riebel." - Star Tribune 5/22/08
Since joining the Dakota, he "seems
to have lifted the entire kitchen onto his back and marched
it into the top tier of Minnesota restaurants" according
to Andrew Zimmern in Mpls. St. Paul Magazine. Rick Nelson
wrote in the Star Tribune, "The food boasts the nuance,
imagination and technical prowess of the city's top kitchens,
but Riebel keeps the tone playfully approachable and full
of surprises, not unlike the jazz that lights up the Dakota's
stage."
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| Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota,
Jack credits extensive travel, love of food and the vitality
of the Twin Cities restaurant community for his eclectic
style in the kitchen. |
| Reviews & News of Chef Jack |
The
American Cheese Society's 2006 "Iron Chef" Cook
Off
MPLS St. Paul Magazine 09/05
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| Chef Jack Riebel wins The American Cheese
Society's 2006 "Iron Chef" Cook Off |
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The field was down to three great Chefs
for the Iron Man Cook-Off event at the American Cheese Society's
national conference on July 19 - 22 in Portland Oregon. They
included our own Jack Riebel, Executive Chef of the Dakota
Jazz Club & Restaurant, Vitaly Paley
from Portland's Paley's Place, and Tony Mantuano of Chicago's
Spiaggia (the 2005 James Beard Award winner for "Best
Chef: Midwest").
The conference also included a national cheese competition,
guest cheesemaker dinners at restaurants throughout Portland,
and The Festival of Cheese, open to the public, that showcased
more than 700 artisanal cheeses.
The Chef’s Cheese Cook-off followed the format of the
Food Network’s popular Iron Chef show. Competing chefs
used cheese as the main ingredient to create dishes for the
panel of local and national media judges. Master of Ceremonies,
Clark Wolf, the country’s leading restaurant consultant
and a cheese enthusiast, covered the culinary action during
competition.
Each Chef was given the task of preparing a three course meal
in 25 minutes using cheese in each of the courses. When the
smoke cleared, Jack Riebel was the 2006 ACS national Chef's
Cook-Off winner.
The Dakota congratulates Chef Jack on his latest accomplishment! |
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| MPLS ST PAUL MAGAZINE |
Dakota
by Andrew Zimmern, photos by James Erickson
SEPTEMBER 2005
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| Much has already been written about chef
Ken Goff’s departure from the Dakota kitchen a year and
a half after the restaurant and jazz club’s move to downtown
Minneapolis, and the subsequent hiring of local über-chef
Jack Riebel. The Goodfellow’s/La Belle Vie alum seems to
have lifted the entire kitchen onto his back and marched it into
the top tier of Minnesota restaurants. Flaky sea salt is on all
the tables, every dish is thoughtfully composed, the quality
of cooking has trebled, and the Dakota has lost none of its “taste
of the Heartland” philosophy. |
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