Ellie Heyerdahl Jun 1 2025 Giving Back Sports
Update: The 2025 Lake Minnetonka Triathlon has been canceled. Find more information at lakeminnetonkatriathlon.com. The Lake Minnetonka Triathlon returns at 7 a.m. June 21 at Excelsior Commons off Lake Street in Excelsior. The race, expecting around 650 racers, will...
Jennifer Pitterle Jun 1 2025 Drinks Featured Local Makers Restaurants
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 on their Minnetrista orchard and winery in 2021, they were diving into a true passion project. “We really had no...
Rima Parikh Jun 1 2025 Book Club Noteworthy
What happens when a literary icon reimagines a classic? You get James: A Novel, a bold retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man. Percival Everett’s masterful novel transforms Jim into James—a man of...
Emily Gedde and Renée Stewart-Hester Jun 1 2025 Featured Local Makers Restaurants
Minnetonka’s Mike Rakun, co-owner of Northern Hospitality & Co., shares some insight about cooking with the sous vide method. A cooking method that has created its own popularity steam has been a favored food prep method for a local chef/proprietor for more than a...
Madeline Kopiecki May 28 2025 Giving Back
Wayzata nonprofit names the local chapter of an international club as one of its Community Partner Award recipients. If you’ve attended one of the Lions Club of Wayzata’s annual waffle breakfast fundraisers, there’s a good chance you met one (or more!) of the club’s...
Madeline Kopiecki May 6 2025 Featured Restaurants
Two new eateries will be housed above Parlour on Water Street. The restaurant group Jester Concepts announced exciting news for foodies in the Lake Minnetonka community. Two new restaurants are set to open this summer in the same building as mainstay Parlour, which is...
Susan Isay May 1 2025 Uncategorized
Welcome, readers, to our 20th anniversary as the Lake Minnetonka area’s premier community lifestyle magazine. We couldn’t be prouder of our longstanding roots in and commitment to this community. A lot has changed over the course of two decades, but we look back with...
Lisa Havelka May 1 2025 Travel
Presented by: After a long winter, I buckled up my kids for a quick spring road trip to stretch our legs and see the landscape as it started to bloom along the Mississippi River. For impressive scenery within a few hours of our home in Southern Minnesota, we drove...
Renée Stewart-Hester May 1 2025 Arts Interior Design Shops
Hollie Blanchard helps clients visually express their décor and personal narratives. Attributing a positive outcome to being in the right place at the right time can feel a touch trite, a bit clichéd, but when Hollie Blanchard tells the story of how her business, Art...
Renée Stewart-Hester May 1 2025 History Noteworthy
Lake Minnetonka Magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Enjoy a look back at some of our iconic covers from the last two decades. Through stunning, in-house photography and art direction, local residents, businesses and events have been promimently...
Jennifer Pitterle May 1 2025 Arts
One Minnetonka painter finds healing—and her sense of identity—on the canvas. Minnetonka painter AJ Lindstrom-Oye found her way to art, so she could “show up as me,” she says, after a life marked by uncertainty, stress and burnout. “Being adopted at 3 months old from...
Spencer Olson May 1 2025 Noteworthy Recipes
When you take Strawberry Daiquiris and Tres Leches Cupcakes and add in an anniversary or Cinco de Mayo celebrations, consider this clever recipe, which combines the flavors of strawberries and creamy cakey sweetness. Serve at any celebratory gathering—or just because!...
Jessica Hilde May 1 2025 Noteworthy Shops Style
With a celebratory nod to Lake Minnetonka Magazine’s 20th anniversary, stylist Jessica Hilde leans into the traditional gemstone that marks 20 years—emeralds. Whether one is looking for stunning jewelry or emerald-inspired clothing, Hilde offers some of her expertly...
Jennifer Pitterle May 1 2025 Garden Landscape Outdoors
Retired landscape architect Barbara Burgum highlights native species in her Deephaven gardens. The 1905 Craftsman home on the shores of Lake Minnetonka seems like it was made for Barbara Burgum, who purchased it in 1999. While she’s spent years preserving and...
Daniel Huss May 1 2025 History Outdoors Sports
Orono golf course’s history is on par. Your golf course has some history when cut hayfields served as fairways and borrowed tomato cans, spade into the soil, were used as golf cups. Your golf course has some history when the fairways were watered by a team of horses,...