Daily Specials posted by JoeLow on Apr. 8, '09 at 2:23 PM
Sunday Diva Night No Cover $4 Designer Martinis $4 Chef Fashioned Plates Photo Scavenger Hunt
Tuesday Birthday Tuesdays Bring in 3+ Friends and you drink FREE No Cover all Night Free Gifts for the Birthday Boy or Girl $2 Captain Morgan Drinks and Miller Lites for Everyone!
Wednesday 80s Night Totally Radical Drink Specials $1 Vodka Red Bulls $2 Pop! Rock Shots No Cover til 9pm No Cover all Night with an 80s Costume
Thursday Jagermeister Night $3 Jager Shots $4 Jager Bombs $3 Lienie Honeyweiss No Cover all Night
Friday Proletariat Hour $2 Any Beer, Wine, or Mixed Drink No Cover 5-7pm
College ID Night No Cover All Night with Your Valid College ID
Chef-owner Isaac Becker does beautiful work with such high-brow fare as sea scallops with wild mushrooms and seared ahi tuna with chimichurri sauce. But don't miss his great takes on basic bar grub: the sweet-and-sour crab salad, cold cuts-pickles plate, bacon-harissa sandwich, the Twin Cities' best burger. Full menu served to 1 a.m. Monday-Saturday. The restaurant was the Star Tribune's 2005 restaurant of the year. Becker is a 2008 nominee for the James Beard Award's Best Chef: Midwest.
At this laid-back coffeehouse, expect to find an ambitious live-music schedule (performed in an adjacent music room), a nicely retro setting and inexpensive fare that effortlessly swings from breakfast (burritos, oatmeal, waffles) to dinner (black-bean burger, smoked trout salad, aoili/three-cheese grilled sandwich). Beyond coffee, there's an impressive beer selection (including 24 tap choices, from Bell's Oberon Ale to Frostop root beer) and more than a dozen affordable wines by the glass.
Barbette focuses its considerable creative energies on incorporating local, seasonal, and organic ingredients into uncomplicated, classically satisfying bistro fare, served in quirky, vintage-store surroundings. The menu changes weekly. Recommended dishes: Amish chicken, pork tenderloin, Nicoise salad, steamed mussels, beet salad, croque monsieur, daily tartare, sweet and savory crepes, chocolate fondue. The late-night menu ranks as one of the best in town.
Wine list: Extraordinary collection of affordable, unusual labels.
The schnitzel and sauerbraten are good year-round at this friendly, unpretentious German restaurant, and on a sunny summer day there's no more blissful place to quaff down a stein of Hacker-Pschorr or carve up a bratwurst than the lovely patio at the Black Forest Inn. Sculptures and a fountain adorn the partially shaded dining area, and there is even a retractable canvas roof in case of an unforeseen downpour. All the German classics are available, from Wiener schnitzel and sauerbraten to the best apfelstrudel in town. If you are looking for lighter fare, the choices range from a seafood salad and a vegetarian lentil spaetzel to a grilled salmon kebab and an Alsatian sauerkraut casserole.
Perhaps the most creative menu you'll encounter at a bowling alley. The postage stamp-size kitchen cranks out an appealing range of snacks and full meals: grilled bison over field greens with a buttermilk-blue cheese dressing, a fantastic potato salad, salmon with tarragon pesto and basmati rice, a spicy pad Thai, an artisanal cheese plate with locally raised smoked trout, one of the city's best burgers (made with grass-fed Minnesota beef) and a justifiably popular carrot cake. Breakfast (scrambles, biscuits and gravy, omelets) is hugely popular, particularly on weekends. The beer and ale list is exceptional, as is the affordable, adventurous (particularly for a bowling alley) wine list.
Colorful, hip and perpetually packed, this enormous, always busy restaurant and bar emphasizes highly seasoned street foods from equatorial regions from around the world: India, Indonesia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Orient, served in meant-to-be-shared portions. Can't get a table? Hit the satay bar for a quick meal. A late-night happy hour knocks out tacos and other fast food at bargain-basement prices.
The Dakota's bar, restaurant and peerless live-music venue all
work in well-rehearsed harmony. The food boasts the nuance, imagination and technical prowess of some of the city's top kitchens, but its tone is playfully approachable and full of surprises. At dnner, highlights include crostini with a glossy smoked trout rillette; fried oysters on a celery-root salad; curry-rubbed pork, roasted in an apple cider grilled lamb, and even plain-old roast chicken and wild rice. The wine list has a wide range of all-American choices.
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