The Blue Door Pub
The Blue Door is a small chain of neighborhood pubs with tasty variations on the Twin Cities’ signature stuffed cheeseburgers.
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Revival
Revival offers superb Southern soul with some Northern twists, like cheese curds fried in buttermilk. Fried chicken is as good as it gets.
The Egg and I
The Egg and I is a surviving old-school diner in hip Uptown Minneapolis. Many come for dinner plate-sized pancakes
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Isles Bun and Coffee
Isles is the place to go for great cinnamon buns, sticky or iced, and a rotating selection of other cafe companions, including divine coffee cake.
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Kramarczuk’s
In the heart of downtown, one of the Twin Cities’ oldest lunch spots is a cafeteria that serves old-world flavors and charm by the ladle.
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Safari Xpress
Safari Xpress is a Somalian food-court concept centered around such Horn of East Africa dishes as camel stew and sambusas.
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Hot Plate
Decor at Minneapolis' Hot Plate is kitsch, including Paint-by-Numbers art; but there's nothing silly about the food -- a mindful exaltation of diner fare.
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French Meadow
America's first certified organic bakery (since '85), French Meadow offers such nutritionally virtuous dishes as crunchy granola & chocolate vegan turtle cake.
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Glam Doll Donuts
Wild and wildly-named donuts are served with retro-urban panache at Minneapolis' Glam Doll, where interior decor includes mid-20th century dinette sets.
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