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Minneapolis kitties--restaurant recommendations please! A few of my co-workers are going to be in Minneapolis next week doing a program with the Walker Art Center. I think they are staying in hotels near that area. Do you locals have any restaurant recommendations I can pass along to them? (Preferably within walking distance from that area, although I believe they will have one rental car.)
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if they're staying downtown and just want something tasty and casual, they should go to pizza luce. they've got great pizzas (some of which are very unique), really good sandwiches and salads, and a good selection of beer if they need to put down a few.
i also take quite a few dinner breaks at keys restaurant at the foshay hotel. typical diner menu, but the quality is several steps above a regular greasy spoon (and it better be, with their prices). nice dining area with full bar. i'm in love with their tater tots (fancy, i know) and they have lots of nummy looking dessert options. there's also an interesting looking place downtown called hell's kitchen, but i've never been there and maybe one of the veteran MPLS kitties can tell you about that. OH: pizza luce and keys at foshay both have menus online, and if your friends are staying downtown and want decent delivery options, they should print the online menus to have in their hotel rooms. both deliver. [Edited 7/23/08 16:29pm] | |
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hmmm. the walker art center is now located near the river, right?
it's actually a pretty far distance to walk to downtown mpls from there. but, there is the spaghetti factory which is not too far, i think? and other places across the river (take the astone arch bridge) along the st anthony main waterfront | |
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Anxiety said: if they're staying downtown and just want something tasty and casual, they should go to pizza luce. they've got great pizzas (some of which are very unique), really good sandwiches and salads, and a good selection of beer if they need to put down a few.
i also take quite a few dinner breaks at keys restaurant at the foshay hotel. typical diner menu, but the quality is several steps above a regular greasy spoon (and it better be, with their prices). nice dining area with full bar. i'm in love with their tater tots (fancy, i know) and they have lots of nummy looking dessert options. there's also an interesting looking place downtown called hell's kitchen, but i've never been there and maybe one of the veteran MPLS kitties can tell you about that. OH: pizza luce and keys at foshay both have menus online, and if your friends are staying downtown and want decent delivery options, they should print the online menus to have in their hotel rooms. both deliver. Pizza Luce is way yummy. 
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Oh - and the Oceanaire Room is pretty amazing, too. But be prepared to drop a bundle. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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XxAxX said: hmmm. the walker art center is now located near the river, right?
it's actually a pretty far distance to walk to downtown mpls from there. but, there is the spaghetti factory which is not too far, i think? and other places across the river (take the astone arch bridge) along the st anthony main waterfront Walker is where it's always been; only the Guthrie moved. | |
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RipHer2Shreds said: XxAxX said: hmmm. the walker art center is now located near the river, right?
it's actually a pretty far distance to walk to downtown mpls from there. but, there is the spaghetti factory which is not too far, i think? and other places across the river (take the astone arch bridge) along the st anthony main waterfront Walker is where it's always been; only the Guthrie moved. aha! thanks for the correction. in that case, it is right across the street from the 501 and also, there are places across loring park too | |
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Anxiety said: if they're staying downtown and just want something tasty and casual, they should go to pizza luce. they've got great pizzas (some of which are very unique), really good sandwiches and salads, and a good selection of beer if they need to put down a few.
i also take quite a few dinner breaks at keys restaurant at the foshay hotel. typical diner menu, but the quality is several steps above a regular greasy spoon (and it better be, with their prices). nice dining area with full bar. i'm in love with their tater tots (fancy, i know) and they have lots of nummy looking dessert options. there's also an interesting looking place downtown called hell's kitchen, but i've never been there and maybe one of the veteran MPLS kitties can tell you about that. OH: pizza luce and keys at foshay both have menus online, and if your friends are staying downtown and want decent delivery options, they should print the online menus to have in their hotel rooms. both deliver. [Edited 7/23/08 16:29pm] Hell's Kitchen (on 10th st between Nicollet and Marquette) is my number one recommendation for weekend brunch in the city. It's a super cute place and sooooo yummy! If the wait is too long there, Ike's restaurant (on 6th St a block or so east of Hennepin, across from City Center) is respectable for brunch as well. And HUGE portions. |
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The Walker is situated almost exactly smack in between downtown and uptown and I can't think of any hotels that are fewer than 5-8 blocks from there. My guess is they are staying downtown, the Hyatt or something on that end of Nicollet Mall. In addition to all of the above recommendations there's a great Thai restaurant in my old neighborhood (Loring Park) called The King and I.
Something else they could check out is the City Pages restaurant guide/recommendations. They can look up ones we've mentioned and others as well by price range, type of cuisine, neighborhood, etc. http://citypages.com/restaurants |
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CarrieMpls said: The Walker is situated almost exactly smack in between downtown and uptown and I can't think of any hotels that are fewer than 5-8 blocks from there. My guess is they are staying downtown, the Hyatt or something on that end of Nicollet Mall. In addition to all of the above recommendations there's a great Thai restaurant in my old neighborhood (Loring Park) called The King and I.
Something else they could check out is the City Pages restaurant guide/recommendations. They can look up ones we've mentioned and others as well by price range, type of cuisine, neighborhood, etc. http://citypages.com/restaurants that's a good point. by walking several blocks south, one could go to D'Amico's and/or Chipotle | |
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XxAxX said: RipHer2Shreds said: Walker is where it's always been; only the Guthrie moved. aha! thanks for the correction. in that case, it is right across the street from the 501 and also, there are places across loring park too you don't really live in Minneapolis, do you? YA BIG PHONEY!   | |
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Thanks everyone...I printed out this thread and gave it to my colleague. She will be there tomorrow. I gave her a cd of Prince songs specifically about Minneapolis (Uptown, Calhoun Square, Paisley Park, etc) for her flight, and tonight I will make another one of the "Minneapolis sound" for one of the other girls, who is arriving this weekend. 
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The Dakota Club on Nicolette and 10th has good food and great music.
You could also go to The Loring Cafe which is right across the park from the walker. Eli's (on Hennepin and 15th (?)) is another little hole in the wall that is pretty good. Uptown has plenty of choices as well. If they are downtown the should really just cruise Nicolette Ave, otherwise known as eat street. Oh, Jerusalem's on Nicolette and 15th has belly dancing on the weekends. | |
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where exactly is joe's garage? is that near-ish the walker? (i'm still a mpls n00b) i just ate there a couple of weekends ago and i really liked the menu. very eclectic takes on american diner food. i wanted to sample their dessert menu but i was too stuffed from my lunch.  | |
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I had fun at Chino Latino and it's in Uptown. Studies have shown the ass crack of the average Prince fan to be abnormally large. This explains the ease and frequency of their panties bunching up in it. |
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simm0061 said: The Dakota Club on Nicolette and 10th has good food and great music.
You could also go to The Loring Cafe which is right across the park from the walker. Eli's (on Hennepin and 15th (?)) is another little hole in the wall that is pretty good. Uptown has plenty of choices as well. If they are downtown the should really just cruise Nicolette Ave, otherwise known as eat street. Oh, Jerusalem's on Nicolette and 15th has belly dancing on the weekends. The Loring is no longer there, hasn't been for years. It's Lurcat now. The Loring Pasta Bar and the Kitty Kat Club are both in dinkytown, but that's a bit of a jaunt for them. It's the same owners as the old Loring Cafe. To answer Anxy, Joe's Garage is right across Loring Park from the Walker. And if it's a nice day, there's no better place to be than their rooftop patio! |
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CarrieMpls said: simm0061 said: The Dakota Club on Nicolette and 10th has good food and great music.
You could also go to The Loring Cafe which is right across the park from the walker. Eli's (on Hennepin and 15th (?)) is another little hole in the wall that is pretty good. Uptown has plenty of choices as well. If they are downtown the should really just cruise Nicolette Ave, otherwise known as eat street. Oh, Jerusalem's on Nicolette and 15th has belly dancing on the weekends. The Loring is no longer there, hasn't been for years. It's Lurcat now. The Loring Pasta Bar and the Kitty Kat Club are both in dinkytown, but that's a bit of a jaunt for them. It's the same owners as the old Loring Cafe. To answer Anxy, Joe's Garage is right across Loring Park from the Walker. And if it's a nice day, there's no better place to be than their rooftop patio! oh yes, the patio is very nice! | |
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Until someone asks, I always forget how many great restaurants we have here.
I think I need to start a dinner club again. I had a sushi club with friends a few years ago, I think I need to start a foodie club where we go out once a month to all the fabulous places around here. |
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magnificentsynthesizer said: XxAxX said: aha! thanks for the correction. in that case, it is right across the street from the 501 and also, there are places across loring park too you don't really live in Minneapolis, do you? YA BIG PHONEY!  hush you! don't you DARE tell them which planet i am from! | |
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CarrieMpls said: The Loring is no longer there, hasn't been for years. It's Lurcat now. The Loring Pasta Bar and the Kitty Kat Club are both in dinkytown, but that's a bit of a jaunt for them. It's the same owners as the old Loring Cafe. To answer Anxy, Joe's Garage is right across Loring Park from the Walker. And if it's a nice day, there's no better place to be than their rooftop patio! Yeah, I'm in denial about the name change/conversion. I still always call in The Loring.  | |
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