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Restaurants reviewed by CityPages (Showing 1-99 of 310)

Camden American DollarDollarDollar
June 04, 2008 - Not once but twice I tried to go to Sauced during its regular hours and found the restaurant closed. The first time...  full review at CityPages
Mounds View
June 04, 2008 - Totino's Italian Kitchen-open since 1951 in general, and for the last couple of months in its new Mounds View...  full review at CityPages
Southwest Minneapolis
May 28, 2008 - There can, will, and should be arguments about what "best" means when applied to just about anything in the...  full review at CityPages
Uptown
May 21, 2008 - During lunch one day at Indio, the new, chic Mexican restaurant in Uptown, the kitchen was out of the chicken stew...  full review at CityPages
+79% Downtown St Paul Thai, Asian and Vegetarian Dollar
May 14, 2008 - The recently reopened Ruam Mit Thai, in downtown St. Paul, has a wall covered in framed commendations from local...  full review at CityPages
+76% Minnetonka DollarDollarDollar
May 14, 2008 - Spasso's timing couldn't be better. Amid mortgage meltdowns and investment bank bailouts, the new Minnetonka...  full review at CityPages
Downtown St Paul Asian, Latin American and Mexican DollarDollar
May 07, 2008 - Stop me if the formula sounds familiar: lots of affordable appetizers from the tropical regions of the world, drinks...  full review at CityPages
+80% South Minneapolis American and Coffee Dollar
April 30, 2008 - To the best of my knowledge, restaurant critics have no formalized and universally applied code of ethics. If one...  full review at CityPages
Southwest Minneapolis
April 30, 2008 - Ketchup packets and grease-stained paper napkins are a thing of the past at 4537 Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis...  full review at CityPages
Downtown Minneapolis American DollarDollarDollarDollar
April 16, 2008 - For breakfast one morning at Porter and Frye, I ordered the Reuben eggs Benedict, and it arrived at the table looking...  full review at CityPages
+71% Roseville Chinese
April 09, 2008 - Word on the street is that there's a humble little Chinese place in Roseville that has soup dumplings. There's no...  full review at CityPages
Elliot Park Asian, Fusion and Wine Bar DollarDollarDollar
April 02, 2008 - The inevitability of change is that someone always has to go first. Whether signing the Constitution or stepping out...  full review at CityPages
South Minneapolis Ethiopian/Eritrean Dollar
April 02, 2008 - "Fusion" has become a dirty word among those who love good food, and not without reason. Pan-Asian restaurants...  full review at CityPages
Midtown/Phillips
March 26, 2008 - Enter the word "Qoraxlow" into Google and all you get are a bunch of barebones listings, all referring to the...  full review at CityPages
+58% Downtown Minneapolis DollarDollarDollarDollar
March 26, 2008 - On a recent Tuesday night at the 7 Sushi Lounge in downtown Minneapolis, a guy with frosted hair, distressed designer...  full review at CityPages
+78% Southwest Minneapolis French, American and Bakery Dollar
March 19, 2008 - I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility...  full review at CityPages
Northeast Minneapolis
March 12, 2008 - Stepping into the new Porky's on Central Avenue in Northeast can be an overwhelming experience. When you walk in, you...  full review at CityPages
+86% Uptown French, European and Pub Food DollarDollarDollar
March 05, 2008 - If you're hungry and in Uptown, Barbette has you covered, no matter what time it is: breakfast, brunch, lunch, or...  full review at CityPages
+91% Payne-Phalen
March 05, 2008 - Phoebe wasn't the kind of girl to go to a strip club. But there she was anyway, wearing a glittery knit stocking cap...  full review at CityPages
South Minneapolis
February 27, 2008 - Few things take the edge off of a Minnesota February like home cooking from a warm part of the world. Trinidad, with...  full review at CityPages
+73% Downtown St Paul American and French DollarDollarDollar
February 27, 2008 - For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what that noise was. Dining at Meritage one evening, I would catch it...  full review at CityPages
Northeast Minneapolis
February 20, 2008 - Although named for a sprawling former palace in Hyderabad, an Indian city of nearly seven million residents, the...  full review at CityPages
+54% Loring Park
February 20, 2008 - I don't know about you, but I was never really cool enough to hang out at the old Loring Café, Minneapolis's arty...  full review at CityPages
+72% St Anthony Park American DollarDollar
February 13, 2008 - The restaurant business is a tenuous one. Many new ventures don't last a year, and even established places have to...  full review at CityPages
+88% Northeast Minneapolis American and Breakfast/Brunch DollarDollarDollar
February 06, 2008 - It's hard to miss northeast Minneapolis's new Red Stag Supper Club: A huge cast-aluminum sculpture of, yes, a red...  full review at CityPages
+68% Southwest Minneapolis
January 23, 2008 - If you want to really rile up a millionaire celebrity chef, ask him this question: "So, who really cooks in your...  full review at CityPages
Midtown/Phillips Tacos
January 16, 2008 - I had been to the newest, shiniest Los Ocampo half a dozen times and was pretty well smitten, yet still afraid to...  full review at CityPages
+85% Warehouse District Mediterranean, Fusion and Middle Eastern DollarDollarDollar
November 21, 2007 - Why haven't I reviewed Saffron? That question has annoyed a portion of Minnesota food cognoscenti ever since young...  full review at CityPages
+81% Downtown Minneapolis Steakhouse DollarDollarDollarDollar
November 14, 2007 - Because of course, despite your discretion, your letter couldn't refer to anything but Manny's Steakhouse. Do...  full review at CityPages
+75% Downtown Minneapolis American and Pub Food DollarDollarDollar
November 07, 2007 - The king crab soufflé trembled like something alive undersea as it descended to the table. It was a pale, truncated...  full review at CityPages
+88% Southwest Minneapolis Italian, European and Vegetarian DollarDollar
October 24, 2007 - I put out the call a few weeks ago for readers to nominate their most essential Minnesota restaurants. The plan? To...  full review at CityPages
+86% Loring Park Asian DollarDollar
October 17, 2007 - There's a very funny story in the October Gourmet magazine, written by New York City chef Dan Barber, about the mad...  full review at CityPages
Edina American, Asian and Italian DollarDollarDollar
October 17, 2007 - There's a very funny story in the October Gourmet magazine, written by New York City chef Dan Barber, about the mad...  full review at CityPages
+80% Bloomington American DollarDollarDollar
October 03, 2007 - Remember the 1962 movie The Manchurian Candidate, and the way Angela Lansbury had a kid specifically so she could...  full review at CityPages
Summit-University Barbecue Dollar
September 26, 2007 - For some, Saturday is a day of strenuous outdoor play. For others, it is a holy day of rest. For still others, it is...  full review at CityPages
Uptown Desserts/Ice Cream Dollar
September 26, 2007 - For some, Saturday is a day of strenuous outdoor play. For others, it is a holy day of rest. For still others, it is...  full review at CityPages
Uptown Latin American DollarDollar
September 19, 2007 - Ecuadorians and Colombians live up in the northwestern corner of South America, and even when they're not enjoying...  full review at CityPages
+85% Southwest Minneapolis American DollarDollar
September 12, 2007 - There is a very special kind of restaurant that opens every few years in every city. It is not a restaurant in the...  full review at CityPages
+74% Southwest Minneapolis Latin American, Fusion and Mexican DollarDollarDollar
September 05, 2007 - You know what's fun? Drinking sprightly rosé wines in a room full of your laughing neighbors while they exclaim over...  full review at CityPages
+82% South Minneapolis French DollarDollarDollar
August 22, 2007 - Now that we no longer have roads in the Twin Cities, picking restaurants has gotten a little trickier. Oh, I know...  full review at CityPages
+87% Northeast Minneapolis Latin American and American DollarDollar
August 08, 2007 - There's a biker coffee shop around the corner from my house, and in the 50 million times I've grabbed an iced coffee...  full review at CityPages
+79% Southwest Minneapolis Mediterranean and American DollarDollar
August 01, 2007 - What's more useless than a drowned rat? What's more useless than a squashed hat? What's more useless than a bike with...  full review at CityPages
+80% Uptown Asian, Thai and Vegetarian DollarDollar
July 13, 2005 - Recommended - Whenever I write about a restaurant in Uptown lately, I get a nasty little bouquet of e-mails: "Anyone stupid enough...  full review at CityPages
+84% Northeast Minneapolis American and Breakfast/Brunch DollarDollarDollar
June 29, 2005 - Recommended - There comes a time in the life of every modern person when we must grapple with the fact that we share a...  full review at CityPages
+77% Warehouse District American, Indian and International DollarDollarDollar
June 29, 2005 - Recommended - There comes a time in the life of every modern person when we must grapple with the fact that we share a...  full review at CityPages
+82% South Minneapolis Vegetarian, American and Coffee DollarDollar
June 15, 2005 - Recommended - Learning about wine is very close to impossible. First of all, as an American, you don't usually get started until...  full review at CityPages
+87% South Minneapolis American, Pub Food and Vegetarian DollarDollar
May 04, 2005 - Recommended - In a new fine-dining restaurant, it's incredibly easy to make a million dollars--if you start with five million. It's...  full review at CityPages
+70% West 7th
March 23, 2005 - Recommended - It's a Wednesday, 5:30 in the evening, the desperate hour. You're hungry. Terribly hungry. You have nothing in the...  full review at CityPages
+73% Minnetonka American and Barbecue DollarDollar
March 23, 2005 - It's a Wednesday, 5:30 in the evening, the desperate hour. You're hungry. Terribly hungry. You have nothing in the...  full review at CityPages
+77% Loring Park American and Barbecue DollarDollar
March 23, 2005 - Recommended - It's a Wednesday, 5:30 in the evening, the desperate hour. You're hungry. Terribly hungry. You have nothing in the...  full review at CityPages
+70% West 7th Barbecue, American and Fast Food Dollar
March 23, 2005 - Recommended - It's a Wednesday, 5:30 in the evening, the desperate hour. You're hungry. Terribly hungry. You have nothing in the...  full review at CityPages
+70% South Minneapolis Pizza, Fast Food and Greek Dollar
March 23, 2005 - Recommended - It's a Wednesday, 5:30 in the evening, the desperate hour. You're hungry. Terribly hungry. You have nothing in the...  full review at CityPages
+87% Apple Valley Asian, Indian and Japanese Dollar
March 09, 2005 - Recommended - One thing you can do, if you're standing within a hay bale of wig hair outside of a morning television studio waiting...  full review at CityPages
+87% Warehouse District American and Mediterranean DollarDollar
March 02, 2005 - Recommended - Part of me? Part of me wants to tell you about the best new restaurant to hit downtown Minneapolis in years. Yet...  full review at CityPages
+71% Columbia Heights Seafood, Indian and Vegetarian DollarDollar
February 23, 2005 - Recommended - I started my quest last August and lost the first of my friends to the Indian restaurant with the gummy leatherette...  full review at CityPages
+71% Brooklyn Center Indian, Asian and Vegetarian Dollar
February 23, 2005 - Recommended - I started my quest last August and lost the first of my friends to the Indian restaurant with the gummy leatherette...  full review at CityPages
+69% Columbia Heights Mediterranean
February 23, 2005 - Recommended - I started my quest last August and lost the first of my friends to the Indian restaurant with the gummy leatherette...  full review at CityPages
+71% Uptown American, Breakfast/Brunch and Pub Food DollarDollarDollar
February 09, 2005 - Recommended - Once upon a time, and a long, long time ago it was, the pretty little wives in the happy, prosperous, but never ever...  full review at CityPages
+75% Downtown Minneapolis American, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Dollar
January 26, 2005 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+81% Downtown Minneapolis Italian, Sandwiches/Subs and Vegetarian Dollar
January 26, 2005 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+89% Downtown Minneapolis Italian, Pub Food and Seafood DollarDollarDollar
January 26, 2005 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+75% Downtown Minneapolis Sushi, Asian and Japanese Dollar
January 26, 2005 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+87% South Minneapolis Italian, Breakfast/Brunch and European DollarDollarDollar
January 19, 2005 - Recommended - What does Jonathan Hunt, the charming 29-year-old behind the long dark locks, the South Africa-raised, Miami-trained...  full review at CityPages
+87% Downtown St Paul Asian, Japanese and Pub Food DollarDollar
December 01, 2004 - Recommended - Is Sakura, the Japanese restaurant in downtown St. Paul, anything like a sock in the eye? No, not really. Is it...  full review at CityPages
+76% Eat Street Vegetarian and Caribbean DollarDollar
November 17, 2004 - Recommended - If you, like so many Americans, spent the last decade chained to the waste stack in the basement, ordering assault...  full review at CityPages
+66% Midtown/Phillips Tacos, Mexican and Southwestern Dollar
October 27, 2004 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
Downtown Minneapolis American DollarDollar
October 20, 2004 - Today is today, and not yesterday, and not even last week, and now that it is today I think the best thing to do is...  full review at CityPages
Downtown Minneapolis American and Seafood DollarDollar
October 20, 2004 - Today is today, and not yesterday, and not even last week, and now that it is today I think the best thing to do is...  full review at CityPages
+78% Southwest Minneapolis American, Breakfast/Brunch and Vegetarian DollarDollar
September 01, 2004 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+85% Northeast Minneapolis American, Breakfast/Brunch and Vegetarian Dollar
August 18, 2004 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+73% Minnetonka American DollarDollarDollar
August 04, 2004 - Answer me this: Why would a man of a certain heft--a certain financial heft, mostly, but substantial other weight as...  full review at CityPages
+85% Plymouth Chinese, Asian and Seafood Dollar
July 28, 2004 - Recommended - Of course there is no Chinese food, just as there is no American food. China's a big country full of different...  full review at CityPages
+80% Uptown Desserts/Ice Cream, American and Italian Dollar
June 30, 2004 - Recommended - Look, I'm not saying that Christmas isn't the very worst birthday. Clearly, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Boxing Day...  full review at CityPages
+80% Meriam Park/Highland Park Desserts/Ice Cream, Coffee and Vegetarian Dollar
June 30, 2004 - Recommended - Look, I'm not saying that Christmas isn't the very worst birthday. Clearly, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Boxing Day...  full review at CityPages
+78% Summit-University Asian, Vegetarian and Vietnamese Dollar
May 05, 2004 - Recommended - I know that I am given to excitability, and likewise given to feeling too much about the significance of architecture...  full review at CityPages
+77% Summit-University Italian, European and Vegetarian DollarDollarDollar
March 17, 2004 - Recommended - The first time I walked into La Grolla the night was cold and wet, and inside the room was hot with laughter, bodies...  full review at CityPages
+85% Downtown St Paul Asian, Japanese and Noodle Shop Dollar
March 10, 2004 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+85% Northeast Minneapolis American, Italian and Latin American DollarDollar
January 28, 2004 - Recommended - Darlings, when I walked into "Pop! A Neighborhood Restaurant" last Saturday, I saw a gorgeous minx of a thing waiting...  full review at CityPages
+75% Northeast Minneapolis American, Pizza and Pub Food DollarDollar
January 21, 2004 - Recommended - You know, when I really look back on it, I think I must have headed off into idiosyncracy-ville sometime between...  full review at CityPages
+85% Eat Street Chinese and Dim Sum Dollar
December 03, 2003 - Recommended - When trying to impress your friends, there are a few tricks you may employ. For one, you can complain about how...  full review at CityPages
+80% Linden Hills Asian, Thai and Vietnamese Dollar
November 19, 2003 - Recommended - As someone with a distinct aversion to Kierkegaard, I have been forced to seek the answers to all the greater...  full review at CityPages
+84% Summit-University European, French and Pub Food DollarDollar
November 05, 2003 - Recommended - As an American these days, I must confess that I find it perplexing, worrying, and even confounding to be an American...  full review at CityPages
+84% Warehouse District Seafood, American and Pub Food DollarDollarDollarDollar
October 15, 2003 - Recommended - Me, I have experienced the miracle of the cosmos, here and there. One time it was when I stood in Giotto's Arena...  full review at CityPages
+85% Southwest Minneapolis French, European and Vegetarian DollarDollarDollar
September 17, 2003 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+86% Loring Park Mexican Dollar
September 10, 2003 - Hey, do you remember the past? No, not that unfortunate episode with the rodeo clown when you lost your favorite...  full review at CityPages
+78% Downtown Minneapolis Tapas, European and Spanish DollarDollarDollar
August 27, 2003 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+78% South Minneapolis Desserts/Ice Cream and Coffee Dollar
August 20, 2003 - Recommended - Sometimes Minneapolis summertime is so beautiful it hurts. Sometimes the sun is setting, sinking out towards the...  full review at CityPages
+76% Eat Street Sushi, Asian and Japanese Dollar
August 13, 2003 - Recommended - All summer, I have had a running battle with the little boys on my block, because they want to 1) drop rocks on bees...  full review at CityPages
+79% Eat Street Asian, Seafood and Vegetarian DollarDollarDollar
August 13, 2003 - Recommended - All summer, I have had a running battle with the little boys on my block, because they want to 1) drop rocks on bees...  full review at CityPages
+85% South Minneapolis Japanese, Asian and Sushi DollarDollar
July 23, 2003 - Recommended - I have got some very hot information, information that is very, very possibly going to knock the socks completely off...  full review at CityPages
+90% Uptown American and Seafood DollarDollarDollar
June 25, 2003 - Recommended - Suddenly we awake and throw aside the blankets, shoo the cat from the bed, and come to reckoning with the improbable...  full review at CityPages
+86% Warehouse District Asian, Japanese and Pub Food DollarDollarDollar
June 04, 2003 - Recommended - I have never before seen fish batter piped into a lattice, deep-fried, and cut into ribbons, so that strips like a...  full review at CityPages
+70% West 7th Pub Food, American and European DollarDollar
May 28, 2003 - Recommended - This week's review is a journey of the imagination, my darlings, so settle back, pacify your unquiet minds, and...  full review at CityPages
+75% South Minneapolis American, Hot Dogs and Pizza Dollar
May 21, 2003 - Recommended - "Do not write about the basement. Then everybody's gonna want to see the basement, and it's no big thing," advised...  full review at CityPages
+76% Uptown Desserts/Ice Cream, Coffee and Vegetarian Dollar
May 07, 2003 - Recommended - In a world where the remarkable often goes unremarked, where history flits through with as much moment as a spider...  full review at CityPages
+82% Franklin Avenue Asian and Thai Dollar
April 23, 2003 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+80% Warehouse District Caribbean, Pub Food and Southern & Soul DollarDollarDollar
April 02, 2003 - Recommended - full review at CityPages
+89% Downtown Minneapolis American DollarDollar
March 19, 2003 - It was 10 below outside on Sixth Street, without windchill, but that didn't mean there wasn't any. No, the wind was...  full review at CityPages
+88% Uptown Vegetarian, American and Bakery DollarDollar
March 05, 2003 - Recommended - When French Meadow first debuted dinner with full table service and wine two full years ago, I tried it, wasn't too...  full review at CityPages
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