Once the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) wraps up in Iowa for MSPT Riverside Casino, it will stop in Minnesota for MSPT Running Aces from March 31 to April 10.
Ricardo Blake is not having it with your jerk egg rolls. “We don’t wanna do jerk pizza,” he says. “I just want to be authentic. I want to be outstanding. You gonna go to a Jamaican restaurant, you look for oxtails, curry goat, jerk chicken. We don’t want jerk pasta.” That’s what the chef told me when I asked him why he doesn’t have a jerk egg roll on the menus at any of his three St. Bess Jerk outposts, three seeds of a nascent empire trafficking in classic Jamaican food, and a few trending mashups.