El Triunfo (Northfield)

Northfield, Minnesota is a small college town of just over 20,000 people. Its motto, derived from the presence of a number of dairy farms in the vicinity and two liberal arts colleges in town, is “Cows, Colleges and Contentment”. This contentment, however, rarely derives from the quality of food available in town. Perhaps because both colleges are residential (and most of the students on paid meal plans) the town does not offer the wealth of acceptable dining options available in many college towns across the US.That’s putting it mildly. Of the places worth mentioning there are two “Chinese” restaurants that compete with each other to inspire horror in diners; there is one Indian restaurant which is quite popular and also quite not good (there was another slightly better Indian restaurant but it shut down a few years ago); there is one Japanese restaurant which serves food just above mall food court level (this is an achievement as the “Chinese” restaurants fall far below this threshol...