Adam Platt

Adam Platt is responsible for all aspects of Mpls.St.Paul's food and dining coverage. He also is responsible for much of the magazine’s coverage of urban public policy issues. Adam grew up outside of Chicago, and moved to the Twin Cities in 1981 to attend Macalester College in St. Paul. For nine years he worked for the alternative weekly Twin Cities Reader (later merged with City Pages), dabbling in restaurant criticism and primarily serving as the region’s only full-time press/broadcast critic, making few friends and many enemies in the notoriously thin-skinned world of local journalism. He then spent three years at the Star Tribune before joining Mpls.St.Paul in 1998 as a senior editor—where he learned to play nice. Adam lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Amy, son, Holden, and daughter, Melinda.