Food and Drink

One of the few remaining vintage drive-ins

Dari-ette Drive-In, now celebrating their 60th year on St. Paul's east side, is one of few remaining vintage drive-in restaurants. As their name suggests, they serve real soft-serve ice cream… as...
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Izzy’s Ice Cream Cafe… home of the ‘izzy’ scoop and the ice cream hot dish

Hot summer days make one think of ice cream, but any day is a good day to stop at Izzy's Ice Cream Cafe… included in Minnesota Monthly's  Best of Summer 2011...
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Birchwood Cafe… keeping traditions of freshness and community alive

"Innumerable measures bring us this food…We should know how it comes to us." This Zen meal prayer welcomes you into the Birchwood Cafe, a neighborhood cafe where the creative menu changes weekly...
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Riverfront dining… with wine at cost!

Had lunch at Vic's at St. Anthony Main on the historic riverfront in NE Minneapolis this week. Great food, great view, great outdoor patio… AND they have over 100 bottled wines they sell at...
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Great licks at Edina Creamery

We are lucky to have so many wonderful neighborhood homemade ice cream shops in the Twin Cities. As I criss-cross the metro area I can find reasons to stop at...
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Park Tavern… a St. Louis Park gathering spot for over 50 years

The original Park Tavern in St. Louis Park, MN dates back to the early 1900s, when it was located at the corner of Louisiana Avenue and Minnetonka Boulevard. But it...
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Uptown Minneapolis… great destination for rooftop dining

Uptown Minneapolis is the home of some of the best rooftop dining decks in the metro… some so close to each other you can wave across the street! And warmer temps...
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Sunday’s Site – Convention Grill, Edina

Edina's Convention Grill, near the corner of France Avenue and Sunnyside Road next to Minneapolis' Linden Hills neighborhood, is an old-fashioned family diner. It has a short menu of mostly delicious, artery-clogging burgers, skin-on...
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