Food & Beer
LET'S EAT!
By Michael Lagerquist
southern mn style Josh Wirig cuts a special sausage and mushroom egg bake for a breakfast group.
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Cook bringing fresh offerings to Wow! Zone
fter bouncing between a few area eateries during the last several years, Josh Wirig has found himself a home — and a mission — in the kitchen at the Wow! Zone. The goal that he and Wow! Zone 32 • JANUARY 2022 • MANKATO MAGAZINE
management have is to make it a food destination with a menu all its own. “When I was 15, I actually started down at the old T. J. Finnegan’s in downtown Mankato,” says Wirig, 30, while
seated at the bar of the family entertainment center on Mankato’s east end. “Shortly after they closed, I came up here to the Wow! Zone.” He was brought in then to help with the stone oven pizzas,
