If you are an HGTV watcher (and I am!) you know that the Doory Awards are considered the Ultimate House Hunt:

Each week, the Front Door editors select the schmanciest (a real word) homes and YOU get to vote on them.

Why am I telling you this? OMG, because a condo — designed by Tanek — the one that I covet in my dreams (and waking hours) — has been nominated!

Hold your applause until the end: business first — cast your vote today!

In a category called, The Community Builders, Mpls St Paul Mag digs into (and digests) the Blue Plate Restaurant Company. It seems like a Tanek trend — working with companies that insert themselves into, and embrace, their communities.

With some help from Tanek, Blue Plate reinvents themselves for each neighborhood — Three Squares feels like Maple Grove, The Lowry feels like Uptown — seven restaurants in all and all somehow taste like the neighborhood they’re in.

Amazing/delicious.

Read what Mpls St Paul Mag has to say:

I’ve watched those DQ workers operating the soft-serve machine. I’ve sensed how superior they feel. I’ve always longed for that power. But no more… thanks to (yo)gurt[lab] I can soft serve myself. MYSELF. MUHWAHAHAA!!

Let’s see… I pull a lever, frozen yogurt magically oozes forth into my bowl, I spoon fresh toppings on it and I don’t have to hand it over to someone else and take their grubby money? AND all of this is in a room that is so clean I could (if I had to) perform surgery? How does Tanek make everything better??

What are you waiting for?? GO!! 3100 Excelsior Blvd, Minneapolis

Would I be happier if I lived in the Tanek-designed $1,000,000 Penthouse at Harvester Lofts? Hmm, if home is where you hang your hat and home is where the heart is then my heart will be happy wherever I hang my hat. Right?

I choose Harvester Lofts $1,000,000 penthouse, now For Sale by Edina Realty.

It’s time for the Tanek Holiday party! Bring your Jing Tinglers, Flu Floopers, Tar Tinkers, Who Hoovers, Gar Ginkers, Trum Tupers, Slu Slumkers, Blum Bloopers, Who Wompers, Zu Zitter Carzays, and your Who Camio Flunx on December 16th!