Duluth Grill on South 27th Avenue West has been one of Duluth’s most beloved comfort food restaurants since Tom and Jaima Hanson took it over and rebuilt it around a commitment to local sourcing and scratch cooking that went far beyond what the building’s previous lives as a fast food restaurant suggested was possible. It […]
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American, Comfort Food, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10The Blue Door Pub on Selby Avenue in St. Paul’s Mac-Groveland neighborhood has built its reputation around the Blucy — a stuffed burger with the filling sealed inside the patty rather than piled on top, a construction that keeps every bite juicy and every topping properly integrated. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 7 of
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Burgers, Gastropub, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10At Sara’s Table Chester Creek Cafe on East 8th Street in Duluth’s East Hillside neighborhood has been a beloved local breakfast and lunch institution since Sara Gleeson opened it, building a menu around seasonal local ingredients from the surrounding Lake Superior region and a scratch-made approach that earns the farm-to-table label through actual practice rather
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Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Al’s Breakfast on 14th Avenue SE in Minneapolis’s Dinkytown neighborhood has been open since 1950, operating in a space so narrow — 10 feet wide, 14 stools, no room for anything extra — that it has become as famous for its dimensions as for its pancakes. There is no room to wait inside. The line
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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Gordy’s Hi-Hat on Sunnyside Drive in Cloquet is one of the most beloved roadside drive-ins in Minnesota, a classic 1960s carhop stand that has been serving the same burgers, onion rings, and root beer floats since Gordy Lundquist opened it in 1960. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You
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Burgers, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 9Wasyl and Anna Kramarczuk fled Ukraine during World War II, settled in Minneapolis’s Northeast neighborhood, and in 1954 opened a Ukrainian and Eastern European delicatessen and sausage shop that has been a Minneapolis institution ever since. Three generations of the family have run it across seven decades, maintaining the house-made sausage program — kielbasa, bratwurst,
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Northern Waters Smokehaus in the DeWitt-Seitz Marketplace in Canal Park has been smoking Lake Superior fish and building house-cured deli sandwiches since Eric Goerdt opened it, bringing a serious artisan smokehouse operation to a port city with deep fishing heritage and a waterfront worth building a food destination around. It appeared in Season 9, Episode
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Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 9Emily’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 5Modern 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 4Donatelli’s in White Bear Lake, Minnesota has been serving Italian-American food to the Twin Cities suburbs since 1960, building a multi-generational following around scratch-made pasta, house-made meatballs, and the kind of Italian supper club cooking that defines Midwestern Italian dining at its best. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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