Casper and Runyon’s Nook on South Hamline Avenue in St. Paul has been a Twin Cities burger institution since it opened in 1938, serving the Juicy Nookie — St. Paul’s contribution to the loosemeat and stuffed burger tradition — in a neighborhood tavern setting that has barely changed in nearly 90 years of continuous operation.
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Burgers, Gastropub, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 14Smalley’s Caribbean Barbeque appeared in Season 14, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Unexpected Eats,” which aired May 7, 2012, as a Stillwater, Minnesota Caribbean BBQ operation bringing the jerk seasonings and island cooking traditions of the Caribbean to a historic St. Croix River valley town that had no business having this good a
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Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 14Marla’s Caribbean Cuisine appeared in Season 14, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Big Time Flavor,” which aired April 30, 2012, as a Minneapolis Caribbean restaurant serving the jerk chicken, oxtail, and the island comfort food traditions that are genuinely rare in a landlocked Minnesota city, earning a devoted following among the Twin Cities
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Carribean, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 14Broders’ Cucina Italiana on West 50th Street in Minneapolis’s Fulton neighborhood has been a Twin Cities Italian food institution since the Broder family opened it in 1994, serving house-made pasta, imported Italian ingredients, and the authentic Italian market and cafe experience that earns a Minneapolis neighborhood restaurant its multigenerational loyal following. It appeared in Season
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Italian, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 14Smack Shack at The 1029 Bar on Marshall Street Northeast in Minneapolis brought serious Gulf and Atlantic seafood to a Northeast Minneapolis dive bar setting, pairing lobster rolls, crab boils, and the kind of fresh seafood that most Minneapolis diners had to travel to the coasts to find with the no-pretension atmosphere of a neighborhood
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Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 14Pizzeria Lola on Xerxes Avenue South in Minneapolis has been one of the city’s most celebrated pizzerias since Ann Kim opened it in 2010, building a menu around wood-fired pizzas that blend Neapolitan technique with Korean-influenced flavors in combinations that sound unexpected and taste completely natural. It appeared in Season 14, Episode 1 of Diners,
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 14Nye’s Polonaise Room on East Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis was a city institution for over half a century, combining a Polish supper club dining room with a legendary piano bar and polka lounge in a Northeast Minneapolis setting that made it one of the most singular dining and entertainment experiences in the upper Midwest. It
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 13Q Fanatic BBQ in Champlin has been making a strong case for the Twin Cities northern suburbs as a serious BBQ destination since it opened, smoking brisket, ribs, and pork over real wood with the low-and-slow commitment that earns a regional reputation in a market where BBQ is not assumed to be the local specialty.
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Barbecue, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 11Colossal Cafe in Minneapolis has been a neighborhood breakfast and cafe institution since it opened, building a following around creative scratch-made morning food and the kind of warm, community-focused cafe atmosphere that makes regulars out of first-timers. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Sandwiches Plus,” which aired December 18,
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Breakfast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Duluth 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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