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Emily’s Lebanese Deli – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Middle Eastern, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 5

Emily’s Lebanese Deli on University Avenue NE in Minneapolis has been serving Lebanese home cooking to the Twin Cities since 1980, built around the recipes that owner Emily Kalil brought from her family’s Lebanese tradition and served in a straightforward deli setting that prioritizes the food over the atmosphere. It appeared in Season 5, Episode […]

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Middle Eastern, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 5

Modern Cafe – Minneapolis, Minnesota – Closed

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Modern Cafe appeared in Season 4, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Doin’ Their Own Thing,” which aired November 10, 2008, as a Minneapolis neighborhood restaurant on 13th Avenue NE building a menu around farm-to-table sourcing and scratch-made diner fare well ahead of when that approach became common. The restaurant has since permanently closed.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Victor’s 1959 Cafe – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Carribean, Cuban, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Victor’s 1959 Cafe on Grand Avenue in Minneapolis has been serving Cuban food to the Twin Cities since 1994, named for the year that holds so much significance in Cuban history. The restaurant brings the flavors of pre-revolution Cuba to a Minneapolis neighborhood restaurant in a way that has built a 30-year local following and

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Bryant-Lake Bowl – Minneapolis, Minnesota

American, Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Bryant-Lake Bowl on West Lake Street in Minneapolis is a bowling alley, a theater, and a restaurant, all operating under one roof since 1993, and the combination works better than it has any right to. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008, as

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The Wienery – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

The Wienery on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis has been a neighborhood fixture in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood since 1981, serving hot dogs, burgers, and diner food to a community that includes University of Minnesota students, Somali immigrants, longtime Minneapolis residents, and anyone else who finds their way to the little red stand on the south end

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Town Talk Diner – Minneapolis, Minnesota – Closed

American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Town Talk Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as one of the viewer-nominated stops in an episode driven entirely by fan recommendations. The diner occupied a building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis that had housed a bar since

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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Al’s Breakfast – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Breakfast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 1

Ten feet wide. Fourteen stools. A line out the door most mornings. Al’s Breakfast in Minneapolis, Minnesota has been doing more with less space than almost any restaurant in America since 1950, and it has the reputation to prove it. It appeared in Season 1, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Cookin’,”

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Breakfast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 1
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