Lake Minnetonka Magazine November 2025 Issue

Welcome to the November 2025 Issue

While tucking in for a chat with a cabin neighbor, I noticed a plaque hanging in her kitchen, just outside of dining room guests’ view: “Be like a...

Swedish Meatballs With Egg Noodles are a top contender when it comes to naming an all-time favorite comfort meal for holiday celebrations and weekday mealtime menus. We vote for seconds of this classic dish.

Let’s Dish Offers Conveniently Delicious Dishes

Let’s Dish celebrates two decades and expands its ready-to-bake options. When the holiday season kicks into high gear, the heat is on—especially in...

The Answer to “What Should We Bring?”

Some recipes know how to behave while traveling for Thanksgiving. Whether you’re driving a couple of hours, heading across the Metro or just...

For buyers interested in mixing and matching with vibrant colors and lasting design, Ginori 1735’s Oriente Italiano Malachite features beautiful, handcrafted porcelain pieces in gorgeous and coordinating colors, including Albus (white and black), Aurum (white and gold), Azalea (lavender and blue), Castagna (newest/brown and white), Citrino (yellow and blue), Iris (aqua blue and blue), Malachite (green and blue), Meringa (newest/taupe and white), Pervinca (periwinkle and blue) and Popora (pink and red).

Fox & Willow Shares Tabletop Trends

From holiday celebrations to weekday dining, tableware brings timeless elegance. Preparing a dining table or buffet for life’s special occasions,...

How You Can Outsource Your Thanksgiving

Invite delicious take-out options from local markets and restaurants to Thanksgiving dinner. As long as the regulars or interesting fresh takes make...

Welcome to the October 2025 Issue

When beauty and fashion come together, as they do in this issue, creative self-expression can take center stage. Readers, how do you blend the two...

Lens on Lake Minnetonka 2025 Winners

Photographers bring the Lake Minnetonka area into focus. Over the past year, residents have been cataloging local life around Lake Minnetonka. This...

Custom leopard print pajama set from Highcroft

Bespoke, Luxury Sleepwear at Wayzata’s Highcroft

Highcroft and Wendy Carr match up to craft elegant and custom pajama sets. Sleepwear has been having a moment, which doesn’t seem to be...

Decision fatigue can be wearing, especially when it comes to choosing what to wear from work day to evening events. Excelsior’s Big Wood Collective has a remedy.

Big Wood Collective Solves the What-To-Wear Dilemma

Excelsior shop showcases versatile menswear. Even for the most style-savvy among us, it can be difficult to know how to dress in a post-pandemic...

Hand adding cilantro to a skillet of campfire nachos

Three Fun Fall Recipes To Cook Over a Campfire

Some food just tastes better cooked over an outdoor fire. Let’s be clear; we will always support s’mores as the bonfire foodie champ. No doubt. No...

Minnesota Bound co-hosts Bill Sherck and Laura Schara with black lab Millie.

Minnesota Bound Celebrates 30 Years on Air

The outdoor adventure show shares a profound love of nature with viewers. Ron Schara’s professional background started as a journalist with the...

Outdoor kitchen and pool area of Orono home

Gordon James Crafts a Zen Escape in Orono

One serene Orono property brings home the amenities of a spa resort. It’s something most of us have wished for: to bottle the essence of a luxury...

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...

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...

Welcome to the November 2025 Issue

While tucking in for a chat with a cabin neighbor, I noticed a plaque hanging in her kitchen, just outside of dining room guests’ view: “Be like a...

Let’s Dish Offers Conveniently Delicious Dishes

Let’s Dish celebrates two decades and expands its ready-to-bake options. When the holiday season kicks into high gear, the heat is on—especially in...

The Answer to “What Should We Bring?”

Some recipes know how to behave while traveling for Thanksgiving. Whether you’re driving a couple of hours, heading across the Metro or just...

Fox & Willow Shares Tabletop Trends

From holiday celebrations to weekday dining, tableware brings timeless elegance. Preparing a dining table or buffet for life’s special occasions,...

How You Can Outsource Your Thanksgiving

Invite delicious take-out options from local markets and restaurants to Thanksgiving dinner. As long as the regulars or interesting fresh takes make...

Welcome to the October 2025 Issue

When beauty and fashion come together, as they do in this issue, creative self-expression can take center stage. Readers, how do you blend the two...

Lens on Lake Minnetonka 2025 Winners

Photographers bring the Lake Minnetonka area into focus. Over the past year, residents have been cataloging local life around Lake Minnetonka. This...

Bespoke, Luxury Sleepwear at Wayzata’s Highcroft

Highcroft and Wendy Carr match up to craft elegant and custom pajama sets. Sleepwear has been having a moment, which doesn’t seem to be...

Big Wood Collective Solves the What-To-Wear Dilemma

Excelsior shop showcases versatile menswear. Even for the most style-savvy among us, it can be difficult to know how to dress in a post-pandemic...

Three Fun Fall Recipes To Cook Over a Campfire

Some food just tastes better cooked over an outdoor fire. Let’s be clear; we will always support s’mores as the bonfire foodie champ. No doubt. No...

Minnesota Bound Celebrates 30 Years on Air

The outdoor adventure show shares a profound love of nature with viewers. Ron Schara’s professional background started as a journalist with the...

Gordon James Crafts a Zen Escape in Orono

One serene Orono property brings home the amenities of a spa resort. It’s something most of us have wished for: to bottle the essence of a luxury...

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...

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...

How You Can Outsource Your Thanksgiving

Entertain, Featured, Restaurants

Invite delicious take-out options from local markets and restaurants to Thanksgiving dinner. As long as the regulars or interesting fresh takes make...

Gather, Glow, Give at Light Up the Lake

Entertain, Outdoors

Light Up the Lake, Wayzata’s annual holiday spectacular, welcomes the community. Connect with neighbors and celebrate the beginning of the holiday...

Fox & Willow Shares Tabletop Trends

Entertain, Featured, Interior Design, Shops

From holiday celebrations to weekday dining, tableware brings timeless elegance. Preparing a dining table or buffet for life’s special occasions,...

Afterglow

Photo Contest

Gundula Behbahani captured the striking saffron and blue-gray sky over Lake Minnetonka during a spontaneous moment on her way home from work when...

Shop Local

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Noteworthy

“The Lager Queen of Minnesota”

Book Club, Noteworthy

The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal might just be the ideal novel to read during this holiday season as it’s filled with familial ties....

Creative Memories

Arts, Noteworthy, Shops

Artist Rich Sladek is set to feature his work November 29 to December 7 at the 31st annual holiday boutique at the Gillespie Center, 2590 Commerce...

Breakfast Fare for Fall

Noteworthy, Recipes

With such focus on holiday main menus, don’t forget about breakfast, and these homemade English muffins might become a year-round staple. Whether...

Early Thanksgiving Celebrations

History, Noteworthy

Today, you might think that the flocks of turkeys roaming your neighborhood or the frozen beauties in the local market harken back to the first Lake...

Events

Rootstock Seasonal Teas

Food & Drink

Now you can enjoy this timeless tradition throughout the changing seasons as our Rootstock Chef Niki Heber creates delectable savories and sweets...

Jazz Concert Fundraiser for The Arc Minnesota

Arts & Performance, Benefits & Fundraisers

Please join us for a jazz concert featuring local artist Bernadette Spray and her band of talented musicians: Billy Peterson, Dale Alexander, Ben...

Winter Lights Opening Night

Arts & Performance

Join in the fun as we light up the Arboretum with Winter Lights. The lighting ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. and includes a welcome, thank you to...