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• Tornado Room Bar & Grill will stream games and local weather reports, while an in-house tornado siren will signal that drinks are half price for five minutes.

🥗 Sweetgreen is coming to the Mall of America, per a release. The fast-casual salad chain, which has four other locations in the Twin Cities, will open the outpost Sept. 8.

🌮 Arizona Taco Co., the New Hope fast-casual Mexican restaurant, held a grand opening for its second location in Uptown's Seven Points over the weekend.

• Plus: New Haven-style pizza spot OG ZaZa hinted at a new Uptown location on Instagram this week.

🥐 ICYMI: There's a new walk-up bakery in Northeast Minneapolis. Solomon's Bakery Express moved into the corner shack formerly occupied by Slice Pizza last month.

• Expect European-style breads, pastries and coffees.

🍻 Minneapolis craft brewery Fulton Brewing has acquired Bemidji Brewing, per Bring Me The News. The downtown Bemidji taproom will remain open.