Your Wedding, Our Pages

Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life—filled with romance, the love of family and friends and, of course, all those wonderful,...

Lake Minnetonka Magazine August 2025 Issue

Welcome to the August 2025 Issue

As I write, I’ve just returned from New York City after a whirlwind weekend of family memory-making and lengthy walks throughout the city. While...

Senior Spotlight Students Are Ready for Their Next Chapter

If there is any year that brings with it a whirlpool of emotions, memories and questions about the future it has to be the senior year of high...

Group of hands selecting tiles over a Mah Jongg board

Mah Jongg Brings the Minnetonka Community Together

A Minnetonka Community Education Mah Jongg instructor brings players together over a shared love of the game. A few years ago, actor Julia Roberts...

Stack of Chocolate Chip Cookies from Oven Fresh Cookies

Oven Fresh Cookies Knows if You Give a Kid a Cookie …

… they’ll probably want it served warm. Food, whether it’s a full meal, a dessert or a snack, often goes hand-in-hand with important life events....

Alan Bergo, with his harvest of edible native plants that he grows at home, appreciates earthly bounties.

Chef and Author Alan Bergo Discusses Mushroom Hunting

The Forager Chef educates on how to discover a wild harvest in your neck of the woods. If you’ve ever been on a woodland hike and noticed a cluster...

Trophies from the The Inland Lake Yachting Association Dinghy Championship Week

Minnetonka Yacht Club Hosts Dinghy Championship Week

The Inland Lake Yachting Association brings its championship regatta to the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Over 250 sailors, along with family and...

Lake Minnetonka Magazine July 2025 Issue

Welcome to the July 2025 Issue

I love a good mystery. Whether it’s through a gripping book, captivating podcast or binge-worthy streaming platform, I’m there for all the twists...

Fresh Takes on Appetizing Summer Spreads

If there’s one thing Minnesotans do best, it’s summer get-togethers. Whether your party finds its rhythm lakeside, poolside or on a sun-soaked...

Best of Lake Minnetonka 2025 Winners Web Banner

Explore Your Best of Lake Minnetonka 2025 Winners

Summertime reigns supreme and so does our annual Readers’ Choice Poll. Summer brings out the best—the best sun-drenched days spent diving into all...

Editor Renée Stewart-Hester looking out at Lake Minnetonka

X Marks the Spot

Visit some of my favorite spaces to read, create and just be. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a favorite spot to read, reflect or...

An aerial shot of the historic Lafayette Club on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.

Lafayette Club Embarks on an Exciting New Partnership

The historic club has entered into a reciprocity agreement with Windsong Farm Golf Club. For over a century, the iconic Spanish Mission-style...

Esther and Frank Weigel, photographed with their children, have reimagined and reinvigorated what is now Everly Farms. Even more additions are coming this summer!

Everly Farms Winery Is a Family Affair

The owners of Everly Farms create a gathering place, focused on food, drinks and family. When husband-and-wife team Frank and Esther Weigel closed...

Co-owner of Northern Hospitality & Co. Mike Rakun

What Is It About Sous Vide That Has Chefs Intrigued?

Minnetonka’s Mike Rakun, co-owner of Northern Hospitality & Co., shares some insight about cooking with the sous vide method. A cooking method...

Renderings for Mirabelle showcase an elevated and vintage ambiance throughout the dining room and bar area.

Mirabelle and Shiki Shake up the Excelsior Restaurant Scene

Two new eateries will be housed above Parlour on Water Street. The restaurant group Jester Concepts announced exciting news for foodies in the Lake...

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Your Wedding, Our Pages

Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life—filled with romance, the love of family and friends and, of course, all those wonderful,...

Welcome to the August 2025 Issue

As I write, I’ve just returned from New York City after a whirlwind weekend of family memory-making and lengthy walks throughout the city. While...

Senior Spotlight Students Are Ready for Their Next Chapter

If there is any year that brings with it a whirlpool of emotions, memories and questions about the future it has to be the senior year of high...

Mah Jongg Brings the Minnetonka Community Together

A Minnetonka Community Education Mah Jongg instructor brings players together over a shared love of the game. A few years ago, actor Julia Roberts...

Oven Fresh Cookies Knows if You Give a Kid a Cookie …

… they’ll probably want it served warm. Food, whether it’s a full meal, a dessert or a snack, often goes hand-in-hand with important life events....

Chef and Author Alan Bergo Discusses Mushroom Hunting

The Forager Chef educates on how to discover a wild harvest in your neck of the woods. If you’ve ever been on a woodland hike and noticed a cluster...

Minnetonka Yacht Club Hosts Dinghy Championship Week

The Inland Lake Yachting Association brings its championship regatta to the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Over 250 sailors, along with family and...

Welcome to the July 2025 Issue

I love a good mystery. Whether it’s through a gripping book, captivating podcast or binge-worthy streaming platform, I’m there for all the twists...

Fresh Takes on Appetizing Summer Spreads

If there’s one thing Minnesotans do best, it’s summer get-togethers. Whether your party finds its rhythm lakeside, poolside or on a sun-soaked...

Explore Your Best of Lake Minnetonka 2025 Winners

Summertime reigns supreme and so does our annual Readers’ Choice Poll. Summer brings out the best—the best sun-drenched days spent diving into all...

X Marks the Spot

Visit some of my favorite spaces to read, create and just be. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a favorite spot to read, reflect or...

Lafayette Club Embarks on an Exciting New Partnership

The historic club has entered into a reciprocity agreement with Windsong Farm Golf Club. For over a century, the iconic Spanish Mission-style...

Everly Farms Winery Is a Family Affair

The owners of Everly Farms create a gathering place, focused on food, drinks and family. When husband-and-wife team Frank and Esther Weigel closed...

What Is It About Sous Vide That Has Chefs Intrigued?

Minnetonka’s Mike Rakun, co-owner of Northern Hospitality & Co., shares some insight about cooking with the sous vide method. A cooking method...

Mirabelle and Shiki Shake up the Excelsior Restaurant Scene

Two new eateries will be housed above Parlour on Water Street. The restaurant group Jester Concepts announced exciting news for foodies in the Lake...

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The Arb’s Grand Entrance

Garden, Landscape

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s new entrance is part of a multiphase plan to enhance visitor experience. On July 30, the Minnesota Landscape...

Lens on Lake Minnetonka 2025 Is Now Open for Submissions

Photo Contest

Our annual photo contest is a few clicks away. Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, once said, “Photography...

Senior Spotlight Students Are Ready for Their Next Chapter

Education, Featured, People

If there is any year that brings with it a whirlpool of emotions, memories and questions about the future it has to be the senior year of high...

Oven Fresh Cookies Knows if You Give a Kid a Cookie …

Featured, Local Makers

… they’ll probably want it served warm. Food, whether it’s a full meal, a dessert or a snack, often goes hand-in-hand with important life events....

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Noteworthy

A History Lesson About the Deephaven School

Education, History, Noteworthy

In December 1936, Deephaven received a federal Works Progress Administration grant to help build a new school. After two years of construction and...

“The Small and the Mighty”

Book Club, Noteworthy

From Sharon McMahon comes The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights...

15.20 Apparel Specializes in Fashionable Fan Apparel

Noteworthy, Shops, Sports, Style

As Ally Kubalak’s school-aged sons started playing sports, the Minnetonka resident found herself on the sidelines, cheering them on while...

Have a Smoothie Start to Your Day

Drinks, Noteworthy, Recipes

Getting out the door in the morning for work, school or otherwise can present some challenges, and it’s important to fuel up for the day ahead....

Events

Minnesota Popcorn Day

Education, For the Kids, Home & Garden, Outdoors

Drop-in between 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on August 30, to learn more about corn at the Farm at the Arb. Who doesn’t like popcorn? Popcorn Day will immerse...

Field Fest at the Arb

Food & Drink

Experience the harvest season at the Farm at the Arb with this annual family-friendly festival, complete with hands-on harvesting sugar beets, corn...

Full Harvest Moon Hike

Community, Education, Outdoors

Explore the Arboretum under the glow of the full harvest moon during these special after-hours events that invite visitors to explore astronomy and...