MANKATO – After more than two decades of silence, the Happy Chef has a lot to say. He's got some thoughts on dining. "That's not a flying saucer!" the 36-foot-tall fiberglass foodie boomed this week ...

MANKATO, Minn. — Meta Millhone walked up to the Happy Chef statute Tuesday looking for the button on the base she used to press as a kid to make him talk. "Well, hello there neighbor," the chef's ...

Just about anyone who’s driven Highway 169 north of Mankato in the past 40 years knows the towering Happy Chef statue. This month, the real Happy Chef will be inducted into the state Hospitality Hall ...

Carl Ruiz, the celebrity chef and Food Network star who died unexpectedly in September, was celebrated by fellow chefs, fans and his friends on what would have been his 45th birthday. The funny and ...

Ariana Biermann is officially 20 years old! The Don’t Be Tardy cast member kicked off her birthday festivities with a delicious cake gifted to her by longtime family friend, Chef Tracey Bloom. On ...

From the first Happy Chef eatery in Mankato, there followed dozens more of the family-style restaurants, sprinkled around Minnesota and elsewhere in the Midwest as far south as Kansas. That first ...