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Northshore October 2025
  It’s hard to resist deep-fried bacon. The Chicharron—an appetizer of slow-braised pork belly, deep-fried to order and dusted with a sweet and spicy blend—fairly jumps out from the appetizer menu at Metzy’s Cantina, the brick-and-mortar outpost of Erik Metzdorf’s popular food truck. Paired with one of the hyper-local beers on tap, it is the perfect appetizer to welcome fall, when it feels okay to indulge a bit. Indulgent dishes that are also light and fresh are hallmarks of the menu at Metzy’s, which serves generous portions of modern-style Mexican food, seasoned and sauced deftly by Johnson and
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