Mr. Roberts Resort is expected to open on June 1 at 28179 East Shore Drive. A news release announcing the plans refers to it as “a unique combination of a full-service restaurant, bar, cabins and RV sites, all situated in a bucolic setting on Swan Lake in Northern Minnesota.”
The 90-seat restaurant promises a “supper club-style setting with a contemporary feel, serving up modern Midwestern cuisine” such as macaroni and cheese-stuffed meatloaf, smelt fries, venison stroganoff, lamb bacon BLT and items smoked in an old-world brick smokehouse. Some menu items will be available as grab-and-go for boaters. There will also be full bar with “classic cocktails and an eclectic, yet affordable wine list.”
Master is a Pengilly native who started cooking professionally in her early 20s. After stints at the Ritz-Carlton and Bayona in New Orleans’ French Quarter she moved back to Minnesota, cooking at several James Beard-winning restaurants around the Twin Cities until she landed the job heading up the kitchen at Barbette, a French bistro in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. In 2014 she was a semi-finalist on ABC’s cooking show The Taste.