Eat Street Pizza, West Bank Diner reviewed

Reconsider your ideas about two favorite foods

A A A Comments (0) By Emily Weiss Wednesday, Apr 4 2012

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E. Katie Holm

Eat St.'s zucchini and roasted red pepper pizza works great for breakfast too.

E. Katie Holm

A slice of the Westside Thai pizza at Eat Street Pizza

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Eat Street Pizza

1931 Nicollet Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Category: Restaurant > Pizza

Region: Minneapolis (Downtown)

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Eat Street Pizza
at the Nicollet
1931 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis
612.874.9125; www.the-nicollet.com
pizzas $8-$14

West Bank Diner
324 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis
612.333.2211
breakfast menu $5-$9

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West Bank Diner does the basics well. Eggs were never dry and never too runny. Hash browns had all the crispy, salty, hot appeal of a French fry. The stack of oatmeal pancakes successfully struck that fine textural balance between fluff and heft. The atmosphere is bare bones, but it's as welcoming as a ticker-tape parade, and Jama's mission, the opposite of many of the neighboring restaurants in the area, is to introduce American cuisine to his Somalian customers. If you happen to have a hankering for Somali food and can describe the dish you want, Jama will happily whip it up.

So in our quest to answer the unanswerable, we can now safely say that yes, you can you get good pizza in a coffeehouse, thus shifting that knowledge to the "things you know you know" category. And as for whether a diner is a diner if it doesn't serve bacon, well, technically it can be. But I don't like to call a meal without that meat "breakfast."