Traditional English fare including Scotch eggs, bangers and mash, Cornish pasties, as well as salads, burgers and vegetarian dishes. Upper-level patio with outdoor dining and grass lawn for lawn bowling.
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.
Landon Schoenefeld has put his sweat-equity education to very good use at his new gig. As chef at the new-ish Bulldog N.E., he uses Grade A ingredients, strong technique, creative thinking -- and applies them to traditional neighborhood pub genre. Although the results are far from fancy, Schoenefeld's next-generation bar food exudes obvious smarts and attention to detail. Oh, yeah -- it tastes good, too. That includes an exemplary burger (with variations), great fries, overscaled salads, brisket, chili, and a terrific chicken-and-waffles combo.
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.
The lively bar, popular with Uptown twentysomethings, pours more than 40 tequilas and shakes up two dozen margaritas. The menu focuses on contemporary Tex-Mex fare: corn-crusted oysters, picadillo empanadas, burritos, enchiladas, barbecue pork sandwich and a showy tableside guacamole.
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.
It's all about pasta at this south Minneapolis gem, a value-oriented offshoot of the Broder family's popular Broders' Cucina Italiana,located across the street. The ever-changing seasonal menu could include a bowl of pitch-perfect al dente spaghetti singing with lemon, basil and trout, or dill-flecked linguine twirled through colorful kale and chard, chickpeas, shrimp and bits of tangy feta. The lasagna has woody mushrooms layered between sheets of spinach and egg yolk pasta and then bathed in a golden saffron cream sauce. The all-Italian wine list is approachable and affordable.
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