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Cue sepia film and old-time riverboat music. Turn-of-the-century ladies are dashing around Lowertown’s industrial and warehouse district in trailing skirts and broad-brimmed hats. Natty gentlemen in bowlers and lounge suits light their pipes after making hefty deposits at the Merchants National Bank. They’ll tuck a fat wad into their lapel before taking an audience with…

Pizza is hot. Lowertown is hot. It was only a matter of time before the two got together. Big River Pizza, which used to be a mobile wood-fired pizza operation that served farmers’ markets, is now in a space directly across from the St. Paul Farmers’ Market. And the pizza is good. The wood-fired oven…

“Twenty or so minutes into our first meal at Big River Pizza in Saint Paul’s Lowertown, a pizza lovers’ quarrel broke out. But as we debated crust density, sauce distribution, and topping combinations, our two-year-old dining companion cut in with urgency: “I need that!” His tiny finger pointed at the Proud Mary ($12 / $16),…