NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 00:19:38 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:10574 My husband and I like interesting ethnic cuisine so we enjoyed Old City Cafe (1571 Grand Ave); its a kosher Israeli restaurant with great hummus and falafel. Its a hole in the wall place with interesting patrons and great food. A lot of the college kids seem to go there. We also liked Falafel King (701 Lake Street). Another "hole in the wall place" with extremely good middle eastern food. Their falafel was probably some of the best I've had. Khyber Pass (1399 St. Clair Ave) had good Afghanistan food and a nice quiet atmosphere-none of the belly dancers I personally find a bit annoying. The Lotus is a good place for Vietnamese food. They have several locations. They serve meat dishes but its also a good place for vegetarians. I had a dish made with "mock duck" which is made of seitan but seems amazingly like real meat. Lastly we also liked the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe at Highway 13 and Cedar Ave in Eagan. They have a wide variety of good Mediterranean dishes. The atmosphere is pleasant and for people that enjoy belly dancing, they have shows on the weekend. Someone wrote: > Someone wrote: > >Yes, Minneapolis is a wonderful place for restaurants. (I can't speak > >for the St. Paul side of the equation.) The best British-style pub I've > >been to in this country is there: Brit's Pub at 1110 Nicolet Mall. The > >food is just outstanding, the service is excellent, and they have Double > >Diamond Burton ale on tap. A pint of DD and a plate of scotch eggs, and > >I'm a happy man. I'll be up there for a conference at the end of June, > >and you can bet that Brit's is where I'll be spending my evenings. > > What other restaurants are there worth checking out in Mpls? I have > had very bad luck there, and I'll be visiting a lot in the near term. > The Wedge rocks, though. >
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In article , "Margaret Someone wrote: > My husband and I like interesting ethnic cuisine so we enjoyed Old City Cafe > (1571 Grand Ave); its a kosher Israeli restaurant with great hummus and > falafel. It is still there and going great. Its a hole in the wall place with interesting patrons and great > food. A lot of the college kids seem to go there. We also liked Falafel > King (701 Lake Street). Another "hole in the wall place" with extremely > good middle eastern food. Their falafel was probably some of the best I've > had. Khyber Pass (1399 St. Clair Ave) had good Afghanistan food I remember when Kyber opened - there are about 8-10 Afghan Peace Corp volunteers in the Twin Cities (72-74 cycle) and most showed up for the gran opening. The owners had immigrated from Kabul with the help of a church group in St Paul. Kyber was the second Afghan place in the TC and the only one with as authentic cuisine as American bellies can stand (authentic Afghan cooking emphasizes grease - that is why sheep's tail is a delicacy). Any way since then, another Afghan restuarant has opened, Da Afghan by name - it is in Bloomington. When the cycle 13 Afghan Peace Corps volunteers had there reunion here around 8-10 years ago, they filled Da Afghan to the rafters. They reserved the whole place. Many of the PCs spoke Farsi and the owners had a ball with them. and a nice > quiet atmosphere-none of the belly dancers I personally find a bit annoying. > The Lotus is a good place for Vietnamese food. They have several locations. > They serve meat dishes but its also a good place for vegetarians. I had a > dish made with "mock duck" which is made of seitan but seems amazingly like > real meat. Lastly we also liked the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe at Highway 13 > and Cedar Ave in Eagan. They have a wide variety of good Mediterranean > dishes. The atmosphere is pleasant and for people that enjoy belly dancing, > they have shows on the weekend. There are also some very respectable Greek restuarants in town as well as virtually every ethnic you can think of. People should ask in mn.general (until mn.eats gets approved) for specific info a while before coming to Mpls-St Paul area. > Someone wrote: > > Someone wrote: > > >Yes, Minneapolis is a wonderful place for restaurants. (I can't speak > > >for the St. Paul side of the equation.) The best British-style pub I've > > >been to in this country is there: Brit's Pub at 1110 Nicolet Mall. The > > >food is just outstanding, the service is excellent, and they have Double > > >Diamond Burton ale on tap. A pint of DD and a plate of scotch eggs, and > > >I'm a happy man. I'll be up there for a conference at the end of June, > > >and you can bet that Brit's is where I'll be spending my evenings. > > > > What other restaurants are there worth checking out in Mpls? I have > > had very bad luck there, and I'll be visiting a lot in the near term. > > The Wedge rocks, though. > >
Someone wrote: > Someone wrote: > > >don't forget that Double Diamond! (By the way, what's The Wedge?) The Wedge is an entire neighborhood. Lyndale and Hennepin are major north-south thoroughfares in Minneapolis, but they are not parallel all the way. The two meet at what is called Lowry Hill near which is the Guthrie Theatre and the Walker Art Gallery. At the foot of the juncture there is a park with a tiny man-made lake, called Loring Park. Along both of those avenues for about a mile there are numerous restuarants frequented mainly by the locals. Beyond the juncture and on a side street there is some interesting eateries. The Wedge Coop takes it name from the neighborhood. > > It's an excellent food co-op on Lyndale, I think, just nort of Uptown. > > Thanks to everyone for recommendations in Minneapolis -- I'll let you > know what happens after my next trip.
User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Message-ID: Lines: 40 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:43:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.84.111.24 X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 991230234 12.84.111.24 (Wed, 30 May 2001 13:43:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:43:54 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:10539 Yes, Minneapolis is a wonderful place for restaurants. (I can't speak for the St. Paul side of the equation.) The best British-style pub I've been to in this country is there: Brit's Pub at 1110 Nicolet Mall. The food is just outstanding, the service is excellent, and they have Double Diamond Burton ale on tap. A pint of DD and a plate of scotch eggs, and I'm a happy man. I'll be up there for a conference at the end of June, and you can bet that Brit's is where I'll be spending my evenings. - SteveB In article , "Margaret Someone wrote: > I'd love to see a mn.eats group, there are some great restaurants in > Minneapolis/St. Paul. Just last month I was searching to see if there > was a > mn.eats group. > JL W. wrote: > > Jack F. wrote: > > > > > A bunch of people in the Minneapolis-St Paul area would like to get a > > > mn.eats going. But the local ISPs keep blocking it because there is > > > not > > > enough traffic about food on mn.general. Help us by posting Chicago > eats > > > tidbits that might interest Minnesotans to mn.general. If enough > > > flow > > > happens the ISPs might relent, maybe. Hey, thanks. > > > > You guys have fried cheddar cheese curds. Those are tasty bastards. > > None > to > > be found in Chicago. > > > > > > > > > >
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> What other restaurants are there worth checking out in Mpls? I have
> had very bad luck there, and I'll be visiting a lot in the near term.
I'm only an occasional visitor, but I have had pretty good native guides. Mostly from the SW section of the downtown:
Brit's, as mentioned, has good food. On the other side of Nicolette and one block north there's a Thai restaurant whose name I can't recall
- Sawatee? The orginal one is some ways north and east. Both locations serve good food, and their hot is definitely not Midwestern "hot".
A couple blocks south from Brit's, again on the east side of Nicolette, is what I'm told is quite a good Japanese restaurant. Of my own experience, I can; only say that their sushi is better than adequate. Haven't been there for a while, but they used to have an all-you-can-eat sushi deal that we enjoyed... except for the time Bruce decided he had to find out what happens when you unlink one of the boats. Cryptographers: you just can't take them anywhere. :-)
Still on Nicolette (I think), still going south: a block or two south of the expressway is a fine Middle-eastern place named Jerusalem. This one's been on my "mean to get back there again" list for a while, and events have conspired against me each trip. I'm assured that it's still as good as I remember.
There are a bunch of other places that have been reccomended to me but to which I haven't yet been (or I've forgotten about them). I envy you frequent visits there: Minneapolis is certainly way up there in my list of places I would go if I were leaving Chicago.User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Message-ID: Lines: 30 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:59:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.84.108.132 X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 991846755 12.84.108.132 (Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:59:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:59:15 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu chi.eats:10591 Well, this is going to be one of those "I can't quite remember the name of the place" posts, I'm afraid, but the places I went to whose names I can recall are Manny's (very fine steaks) and the Pickled Parrot (sorta Caribbean, and quite good). There was a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place not far from the Sports Arena (or whatever it's called) that we enjoyed but I haven't the foggiest what the name was, and there are a number of very nice Asian spots of various flavors all along Nicolet: Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, and even Afghan if I recall correctly. But Brit's is a very special place and shouldn't be missed no matter what. Best liver, bacon, and onions I've ever eaten, and a fabulous curried chicken dish, and I've already mentioned the scotch eggs. In fact, they have a great deal on a whole platter of assorted appetizers I highly recommend. And don't forget that Double Diamond! (By the way, what's The Wedge?) - SteveB Someone wrote: > Someone wrote: > >Yes, Minneapolis is a wonderful place for restaurants. (I can't speak > >for the St. Paul side of the equation.) The best British-style pub I've > >been to in this country is there: Brit's Pub at 1110 Nicolet Mall. The > >food is just outstanding, the service is excellent, and they have Double > >Diamond Burton ale on tap. A pint of DD and a plate of scotch eggs, and > >I'm a happy man. I'll be up there for a conference at the end of June, > >and you can bet that Brit's is where I'll be spending my evenings. > > What other restaurants are there worth checking out in Mpls? I have > had very bad luck there, and I'll be visiting a lot in the near term. > The Wedge rocks, though.