Best of the Best Restaurant Week: 2/24/08 – 2/29/08
February 21st, 2008
Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine announced this year’s first Restaurant Week which will take place starting this Sunday 2/24/08.
Participating restaurants in the Minneapolis area serve tasting menus during lunch and dinner throughout the week (although not all places offer both). Lunch menus range from $10-$30 and dinner menus are $30. Some restaurants also include a wine tasting flight to accompany the tasting menu.
Last year, I visited La Belle Vie during Restaurant Week and it was unbelievably phenomenal. Although we don’t intend to visit it again this time, I’m hoping there will be another Restaurant Week in March like last year.
Make reservations ASAP to get a table – they fill up fast!
Restaurants participating next week that I would recommend:
Azia Restaurant & Anemoni Sushi – they’re offering a sushi/sake menu in addition to regular menu options
menu | reservations | website
Cafe Barbette
Pip’s Plate review | menu | website
menu | reservations | website
Campiello – I’m not typically a fan of American Italian, but their menu looks pretty good
menu | reservations | website
Cosmos
menu | reservations | website
Herkimer Pub & Brewery
La Belle Vie
Masa – I’ll be hitting this up for lunch
menu | reservations | website
Otho Restaurant and Street Lounge – a new place downtown Minneapolis; the reviews on citysearch sound promising; I’ll be hitting this up for dinner
Palomino – I’ll be hitting this up for lunch
menu | reservations | website
Red Stag Supperclub
Saffron Restaurant & Lounge – Love love this place; I’ll be hitting this up for dinner
Town Talk Diner
menu | Pip’s Plate review | website
Vincent
menu | reservations | website
You can see all of the participating restaurants and their menus at the MSP Mag’s website.
Best of the Best Restaurant Week 2007: 2/25 – 3/3
February 2nd, 2007
Mpls St. Paul Magazine is launching what I think is a don’t miss event week. They’ve collected a list of restaurants that will be serving up a 3-course prix fixe menu for lunch and/or dinner for an entire week. What Mpls St. Paul Mag says about Best of the Best Restaurant Week:
Mpls St. Paul Magazine is not currently listing details, but I found out some on Open Table:
What it is: 1 week of 3-course prix fixe menus offered at lunch, dinner or both
Where: restaurants that have received a “Best of” award from Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Cost: lunch menus can cost $10 or $20 and dinner will cost $30
Why go? This is the perfect time to get to those restaurants that you’ve been meaning to get to
Here are the restaurants listed on Open Table that I would recommend trying (you can make a reservation online at any of the following restaurants at open table):
- Brix Bistro + Wine Bar
- Cafe Lurcat
- Chambers Kitchen (you can read my review of Chambers Kitchen here)
- Cosmos at Graves 601 hotel
- Cue at the Guthrie
- Fuji Ya (only because it’s sushi and I’m really curious as to what they’ll have – but I’m hesitant since it’s not my favorite sushi place and I’ve heard some not-so-great things about it from die hard fans) – eat here at your own risk
- La Belle Vie
- Masa
- McCoy’s Public House
- Mission American Kitchen + Bar
- Pazzaluna Urban Italian Restaurant + Bar (I heard a recent glowing review so I’m intrigued)
- Vincent – A Restaurant
This is just the list of restaurants that I recommend and are available at Open Table, so I don’t know who else will be on the list. Check back for updates.
UPDATE 02/27/07: MSPMAG Restaurant Week Info & Menus
Update 02/21/08: See recommendations for 2008 Best of the Best Restaurant Week locations
