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112 Eatery				4 User Reviews
112 N 3rd St.	American	$$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
When Minneapolis chef Isaac Becker (formerly of D'Amico Cucina and Café Lurcat) and his wife Nancy St. Pierre (a decade in the front of the house at Cucina) opened their homey little downtown restaurant with its cozy booths, they changed the face of fine dining in Minneapolis. First,... More >>

20.21 Restaurant And Bar				Write a Review
1750 Hennepin Ave.	Asian Fusion	$$$, $$$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
20.21 unites two famous brand names: the Walker Art Center, where fine-dining restaurant 20.21 is located, and Wolfgang Puck, the grand old titular chef and international businessman. What results is a restaurant that dazzles with style, polish, and pop, but lacks any particular heart. But will... More >>

Babani's Kurdish Restaurant				Write a Review
544 St. Peter St.	Health, Mediterranean, Vegetarian	$	St. Paul (Downtown)
Notched your belt with all your eastern-Mediterranean cuisines, have you? Your Lebanese, Egyptian, and Syrian? But ask yourself, have you eaten Kurdish? Probably not--if you haven't been to Babani's, which looks to be the first Kurdish restaurant in the nation, a quiet corner shop where one can... More >>

Barbette				3 User Reviews
1600 W Lake St.	Breakfast, French, Wine Bar	$$, $$$	Uptown/ Eat Street
Barbette is an Uptown dining legend--the fries consistently win awards as the best in town, the wine list is shockingly affordable and well chosen, the food has tended to showcase fine-dining sourcing at everyday prices. Seriously, this has long been the place wine and dining professionals go... More >>

Barrio Tequila Bar & Cafe				3 User Reviews
925 Nicollet Mall	Latin American	$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
Forget all the awful tequila stories you've heard (or told)--the ones that ended hunched over the toilet, waking up in a stranger's bed, or spending the night in jail--because Barrio is out to class up the much-maligned spirit. Tim McKee and Josh Thoma, of La Belle Vie fame, partnered with local... More >>

Brasa Premium Rotisserie				1 User Reviews
600 E. Hennepin Ave.	Latin American, Soul Food, Southern	$, $$	University
How can you turn Twin Cities-area farm products into the food that the food cognoscenti really, really want--namely well spiced, healthy, various, filling, affordable, and local? Chef Alex Roberts, the James Beard-nominated chef who also owns fine-dining standard-bearer Restaurant Alma, answered... More >>

Broders' Pasta Bar				Write a Review
5000 Penn Ave. S	Italian	$, $$	Southwest
Step right up, ladies and gents, see the miracle material molded into a hundred different spine-tingling shapes. You've seen it before, it's pasta, but you've never seen it like this: Thrill to the sight of trenette (thin noodles) dancing with hand-ground pesto. Gape at exquisite preparations of... More >>

Cafe Levain				Write a Review
4762 Chicago Ave. S.	American, Contemporary, French	$$, $$$	Powderhorn
Reborn from the ashes of former fine-dining standard-bearer Restaurant Levain, Café Levain is a T-shirt casual, safe and sound little French-oriented bistro, with the emphasis on safe and sound. The French onion soup is the best in town--beefy as a steak, comforting as a quilt, and... More >>

Cafe Maude				Write a Review
5411 Penn Ave. S.	American, Breakfast, Wine Bar	$$, $$$	Southwest
Café Maude debuted in 2007 with a simple idea: Be as chic as Chanel, as hip as a San Francisco DJ, and as affordable as T.G.I.Friday’s. Sound good to you? Yeah, you and everyone else in town. If you do ever get in, some of the highlights you’ll find: creative cocktails (try the... More >>

Chef Shack				Write a Review
Mill City Farmers Market, 704 S Second St.	American	$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
This mobile kitchen operated by two local culinary pros, Carrie Summer and Lisa Carlson, dispels misconceptions about mediocre street food every Saturday morning during the Mill City Farmers' Market and Sundays at the Kingfield Farmers' Market. Summer handles the sweets, and Carlson, the chef at... More >>

Corner Table				1 User Reviews
4257 Nicollet Ave. S	American, Wine Bar	$$$, $$$$	Kingfield
Most of food-oriented Minneapolis was reeling when three of our biggest of our big-name restaurants closed, namely Auriga, Five, and Restaurant Levain. What to do? Where to go? Who would carry the locally sourced, local-talent train forward? Luckily, the answer was right in plain sight, at the... More >>

Cosmos				Write a Review
601 First Ave. N	Breakfast, Contemporary, Seafood, Wine Bar	$$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
It might not be one of the seven wonders of the world, but it sure ranks as one of the seven design wonders of Minnesota. The word breathtaking doesn’t even do justice to this Charles-and-Ray-Eames-meet-the-Matrix marvel of a dining room, where elements of classic Modernism are interpreted... More >>

The Craftsman Restaurant				Write a Review
4300 E Lake St.	American	$$	Seward/ Longfellow/ Minnehaha
The first really nice, upscale, celebration-destination dinner restaurant in the recent history of East Lake Street combines an American Arts and Crafts decorating scheme, a lovely outdoor patio, an over-ambitious menu, and a wonderful bar that serves a number of imaginative, well-executed, and... More >>

Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant				Write a Review
1010 Nicollet Mall	American, Burgers, Contemporary, Wine Bar	$$, $$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
The standard line on the Dakota is that it has the best food of any jazz club in the country. That's got to be true, but doesn't really cover it. When there is no music playing at all, the Dakota is a very classy lunch or dinner spot, thanks to the great work of chef Jack Riebel, formerly of... More >>

Grand Café				Write a Review
3804 Grand Ave. S	American, Bistro, French	$$, $$$	Kingfield
The white vintage oven at the Grand Cafe has been there for more than 60 years, baking basic sugar cookies for the Grand Bakery and, in more recent years, delicate scones for the Bakery on Grand. The quaint little storefront, with its multi-paned windows and scuffed hardwood floors, seems... More >>

Heartland				Write a Review
1806 St. Clair Ave.	American, Health, Wine Bar	$$$, $$$$	Macalester/ Groveland
In the grand tradition of emigrés who appreciate their adopted land more than the natives do, Jersey-native, French-kitchen-trained Lenny Russo is the Minnesota chef most dedicated to exploring the possibilities of a native Midwestern cuisine. Amazing explorations of Midwestern bounty can... More >>

Heidi's				Write a Review
819 W 50th St.	American	$$, $$$	Southwest
Pilot yourself over to Heidi's, the new restaurant by Stewart Woodman, and try to get a table in the first dining room, against the east wall. From there you can turn your head to the left at any given moment and see Chef Woodman, onetime New York City power player at such restaurants as Alain... More >>

I Nonni				1 User Reviews
981 Sibley Memorial Hwy.	Italian	$$$, $$$$	West St. Paul
The veal shank osso bucco at I Nonni is the sort of dish that lingers in your memory...the tenderness of the braised meat, the rich, buttery marrow you scooped from the bone with a tiny spoon. It's one of those meals that makes it difficult to order anything else on the menu. But if you can bear... More >>

Jasmine Deli				1 User Reviews
2532 Nicollet Ave. S	Vietnamese	$	Uptown/ Eat Street
A snazzy, five-table little deli right in the middle of the sweet spot of Eat Street, the Jasmine Deli is the sweet spot of choice for much of the Vietnamese community. They make the special boiled cakes necessary for Vietnamese New Year and Full Moon celebrations, sticky rice coconut loaves... More >>

Jun Bo				Write a Review
7717 S Nicollet Ave.	Breakfast, Chinese	$$	Richfield
Minnesota's biggest Cantonese restaurant and dim sum palace JunBo occupies the massive old Chi Chi's space just north of 494 and spaciously seats 400. Through these vast fields dim sum carts wheel every day, carts innumerably packed with dishes uncountable. Or, it seems that way anyway, as the... More >>

La Belle Vie				1 User Reviews
510 Groveland Ave.	French, Mediterranean, Wine Bar	$$$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
Fine dining is often attempted, but rarely done. Why? Few and far between are the chefs with the cooking skills to design an unforgettable menu, and fewer and farther between are the cooks with the skills to pull those menus off flawlessly, all night long. Few and far between are the dining... More >>

Masa				Write a Review
1070 Nicollet Mall	Mexican, Wine Bar	$$, $$$	Minneapolis (Downtown)
D'Amico's Mexican restaurant Masa opened to the kind of reviews that kept using words like upscale and high design; words that made most people assume: expensive. Not so! Masa is really just an everyday Mexican restaurant, albeit one in a nicely polished room with some splashy cocktails. At... More >>

Meritage				2 User Reviews
410 Saint Peter St.	French	$$, $$$	St. Paul (Downtown)
St. Paul chef Russell Klein (formerly of W.A. Frost) and his wife, Desta (who worked as a banquet captain at Frost), operate the classiest restaurant in downtown St. Paul. Their brasserie, in the charming Hamm Building in what was once the home of A Rebours, is named after an American wine made... More >>

Modern Cafe				Write a Review
337 13th Ave. NE	American, Breakfast, Diner, Wine Bar	$, $$	University
The pot roast at the Modern is the stuff of legend. The fries and breakfasts are tops, too. And the fact that you can get beer and wine? That's the sprinkles on top of the cherry on top of the whipped cream on top of the sundae. Is the Modern the absolute perfect definitive postmodern diner?... More >>

Obento-Ya				3 User Reviews
1510 SE Como Ave.	Japanese	$$	University
If Ikea sold kits for neighborhood Japanese restaurants, Obento-Ya could be its floor model. The room's design is as boxy as a vintage Volvo, its modern, minimalist look reinforced by the long, straight lines of the bamboo laminate booths, the sushi counter, and the dangling teardrop lights.... More >>