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Fire shoots up from the pan of Lars Benson as he flips shrimp at Lake Avenue Restaurant & Bar in Duluth on Friday afternoon, April 16, 2021. The restaurant is part of the Eat Downtown event that started this week. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
There has been a demand, among fans of a certain Louisiana-style pop-up restaurant working out of the kitchen at Zeitgeist Arts Cafe, to bring out the beignets.
Consider it done.
Robert Lee, the southern-raised creative behind Gumbo Boi, is serving a one-day-only brunch as part of the upcoming offerings for Eat Downtown the Greater Downtown Council’s take on restaurant week and the French powder sugar covered donuts are on the menu alongside crepes, shrimp and grits, and po’boys.