Fargo-Moorhead Favorite Restaurants
The historic charm of Usher's House in Moorhead, which overlooks the scenic Red River of the North, offers casual fine dining and features traditional British pub fare and a wide selection of beer. Nearby, Monte's Downtown is a swank steak and chop restaurant that gets rave reviews for its martini specials. As for home-style stuff, head to Brenda’s Shack for killer pancakes, while Mom's Kitchen is another classic.

International Menus in Fargo-Moorhead
For international flavor, Taste of Italy is a popular destination. Café Aladdin has two Fargo locations and serves heaping plates of perfectly seasoned Middle Eastern food at reasonable prices. Yuki Hana rolls out top-of-the-line sushi, while Acapulco Mexican Restaurant y Cantina is renowned for its queso-covered burritos. Kroll's Diner has a few locations around town and pays homage to the region's German and Russian influences. A bowl of the Knoephla soup is quite filling, though the creamy, chicken-based, dumpling-filled delight is also available for takeout by the bucket.

Fargo Local Foods
Residents who prefer and advocate farm-to-table dining practices can turn to Fargo Local Foods for information on local farmers markets, CSAs and businesses and restaurants who sell and prepare food using products from area farms and producers. Notable farmers markets in the area include the Fargo Community Farmers Market and the FM Farmers Market. Locally-owned Hornbacher's supermarkets also are known for carrying a variety of local produce and meats.

Carol Widman's Candy Company
Local fare takes many twists, but Carol Widman's Candy Company may be the only place in the country that combines chocolate with regional farm crops. Sunflower seeds, soybeans and wheat nuts get covered in chocolaty goodness at this institution run by four generations of Widmans. Even potato chips get this treatment, with milk chocolate, semi-sweet, peanut butter or white almond options. Roadfood.com hails the concoction, called chippers, as "weirdly addictive." Widman's also makes "hot air," spun molasses covered in chocolate.

Maple River Winery
Maple River Winery is a short 20-mile drive west of town, in Casselton, ND. It opened in 2001 and specializes in making small batches of wine with North Dakota fruit. The array is astonishing: dandelion, apricot, country crabapple and even apple jalapeño pepper, to name just a few.