Twenty-six downtown restaurants are competing in the fourth annual Downtown Pork Showdown. You’ll find everything from pork on tacos, pizza, waffles and ice cream to more traditional entrees like ribs, tenderloin and chops. Diners can rate each dish based on use of pork, flavor, tenderness, presentation and customer service by using the DTSF Digital Passport App. The event is presented by Downtown Sioux Falls Inc. and the South Dakota Pork Producers Council. Find a description of each restaurant’s dish at DTSF.com.
The Sycamore Avenue B&G Milkyway won the first Avalanche Battle among the nine ice cream shops with its Salted Nut Roll version. The shop always has the ingredients in stock – vanilla ice cream, peanuts, marshmallow and caramel – so you can ask for one anytime.
This is the first fall season for Ziggi’s Coffee in Sioux Falls, so that means new pumpkin-flavored drinks to try. The lineup includes Pumpkin Pie Latte, Harvest Spice Energy Infusion and Double Pumpkin Cold Brew. Treats include pumpkin chocolate chip bread, gluten-free pumpkin bread and s’mores cake pops.
Dunn Brothers Coffee has two new additions to its fall lineup: Pumpkin Pie Oat Chai Latte and Pumpkin Pie Dunn Dirty, which is Nitro Cold Brew with Pepsi, pumpkin and spices. There’s also the Pumpkin Pie Latte and Nitro Pumpkin Pie Nirvana.
The new food truck 605 Island Guy has added family-size and small group catering platters. They’re available for delivery or pickup.
Sunday is the seventh annual Stomp Harvest Festival at Calico Skies Vineyard and Winery between Canon and Inwood, Iowa. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and admission is $5. There will be wine tastings, wood-fired pizza and wings for purchase, a food truck, live music, inflatables for the kids, vendors and a grape-stomping competition. Find all the details here.
Check out the September specials at Tailgators Grill & Bar in Brandon.
The featured pizza of the month at Invictus Pizza Kitchen is the Hangman’s Philly. It’s a traditional crust with cheese sauce, mozzarella and pepper jack cheeses, Philly-style steak, green pepper, red onion and roasted garlic oil.
The September lunch special at R Wine Bar & Kitchen is The Cubano Panino. It’s layered with ham, carnitas, Swiss cheese, pickles, mayo and mustard on schiacciata bread.
The September burger of the month at Wileys is El Poblano. It has two smash patties seasoned with ancho chili rub, two slices of white cheddar cheese, caramelized onions, roasted poblano peppers, all smothered in avocado salsa and topped with tortilla strips tossed in lime and salt. The bar is donating $1 of every burger sold to help pay for student lunches in Minnehaha County schools.
This month’s international dish at The Willows is a German pork shank with roasted potatoes. It’s served every Wednesday night.
Last week, we mentioned how Look’s Marketplace has added fresh-shucked oysters to its Sunday Steak Dinner Club menu, and then at the beginning of the month, Look’s Live Fire Kitchen also added a shrimp boil to the offerings. It’s loaded with shrimp, housemade sausage and veggies.
Juice Stop is celebrating Hero’s Month by giving all local heroes $1 off 24-ounce smoothies through September. It’s also making drop-offs throughout the month.
A brewery and a doughnut shop are helping Sioux Empire United Way raise money during the nonprofit’s campaign kickoff. For every United Way Dozen purchased at Flyboy Donuts, the shop will donate $6 to United Way. They can be ordered at flyboydonuts.com for pickup or delivery. Severance Brewing Co. created the SEUW (pronounced like Sioux) Brew. It’s a Hazy POG with passion fruit, orange and guava with a hazy pale ale base. It just tapped today and also is sold in cans at area retailers. A dollar from every pint sold at the launch party and from four-packs will go to United Way.
JJ’s Wine, Spirits & Cigars and Nyberg’s Ace are holding the second annual Barbeque & Bourbon event Sept. 13. It will be from 5 to 9 p.m. in the hardware store parking lot at 41st and Minnesota. Enjoy barbecue hors d’oeuvres made on name-brand grills, about 20 spirits to sample from JJ’s and desserts from The Boozy Bakery. There will be live music, a cash bar with craft cocktails and local brews and a cigar booth. Tickets are $60 and can be purchased online.
