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Visitor, intro and question.
Hello fellow nesties.
I'm traveling to Minneapolis the first weekend in April for a business meeting. I'm flying in Friday and leaving EARLY on Sunday. I will be staying at a hotel near the Nicollet Mall. Any suggestions for what I might do?
I love fine dining, museums, galleries, shopping etc. I would love to find either a fabulous fine dining restaurant, or on the other end of the scale, a great local restaurant with amazing comfort foods. My meeting is finished at 1:00 on Saturday, so I have a lot of time to explore. Yay!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ginger from Boston
Re: Visitor, intro and question.
Well, you'd have to take a taxi but my suggestions are in Northeast Mpls, not too far from Nicollet mall area - the Modern Cafe and Erte. We were at Erte recently - amazing food. Modern Cafe is known for their meatloaf - good gourmet comfort good. Northeast is also know for a lot of local art and there's several art galleries, artist's studios, etc.
Otherwise Nicollet mall itself is great for shopping, just walk up and down you'll find plenty to stop at. I'm blanking on my favorite to eat down there but I'm sure you'll get some other opinions.
Have a fun trip!!
Nicollet (said with two syllables, fyi.
so you don't sound like a tourist!) is a great place to be.
Any ethnic foods you'd like? If you're comfortable with busses, you can probably skip the taxi and head to Eat Street. (Just take a 17 or 18 bus going S/SW.) I've read somewhere that there are over 100 ethnicities represented in the restaurants. It's not necessarily the best area in the city, but I've never felt unsafe before either. (I used to live in that area.) There are some upscale restaurants in Downtown too, depending on what you want. H and I just grabbed Fogo de chao, too, this week, which was delicious. Otherwise I've heard good stuff about Se7en, too.
Lastly, you should check out the Guthrie
There are a few good restaurants in there, and you can grab a show, too! Otherwise, there are a few theatres in downtown Minneapolis.
This looks like a pretty good list of the options: http://www.twincitiesdiningguide.com/pages/minneapolis_eat_street_restaurants.asp
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P.S. You do know we have zero sales tax on clothes, right?
(This includes purses and shoes, too, I think!)
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I'm pretty new in town, so I might not know the best yet, but I've found some great places.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art has free admission every day and it's really amazing. The special exhibit is $8.
I second the Guthrie Theater. It's amazing. Right now they're showing The Winter's Tale (only good if you like Shakespeare) and Ma Rainey's Blak Bottom, which I hear is good. The restaurant that's attached is Sea Change. The exec chef was just nominated for a James Beard award. They do a great job with seafood.
I think the Walker Art Center is usually open late. It's good if you like modern art. It's across the street from the Outdoor Sculpture Garden (free) which is home to the famouse Spoonbridge sculpture.
Also for dinner, we love Joe's Garage in Loring Park.
If you want to venture over to St Paul, The Science Museum has a King Tut exhibit, and Imax movie to go with it.
Also in St Paul, Mickey's Diner is an old train car and a classic. I really recommend the Patty Melt. It's probably the best comfort food I've ever had. If you only have time for one place, go to Mickey's. www.mickeysdiningcar.com/
Includes shoes, but not purses - those are subject to sales tax.
I second the MIA and the Walker. The MIA has an amazing Asian art collection - one of the best in the country. If it's warm enough, check out the Sculpture Garden too - it's right across the street from the Walker. You can easily walk or bus there from Nicollet.
I love Jerusalem's on Nicollet (just south of 15th). I was craving their spinach pie with hummus and taboulleh the other day.
hah. really? I was born here, grew up in WI, but all of my family (mom and dad) is from here. They made fun of me when I said Nic-o-llet. People at work told me the same thing.
haha
I've been told Minnesotans say it like "nic-lett"... with really short, kind of half-syllable for the 'o'.
Regardless, it's an awesome place to hang out!
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it's nic-o-llet. 3 syllables, not 2.
ok. well, then.
I guess this isn't up for discussion.
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You can easily hit one of the best fine dining establishments and one of the best museums in one. Walker Art Center is one of the most respected modern art museums in the world - and a definite must for traveling to Minneapolis. It also houses Wolfgang Puck's restaurant 20.21, which is phenomenal.
I would definitely recommend staying downtown. Though I love both NE and Eat Street, there's more than a enough to do in dt Mpls. Nicollet Mall has great shopping - Macy's (and the awesome Mary Tyler Moore statue outside it), Neiman Marcus, Saks Off 5th (best deals on dresses in the city, I think), and of course the high end shops at Gavidae Commons (Cole Haan, etc.)
For restaurants, if you don't do 20.21 at the Walker, you must try 112 Eatery, Cosmos at the Graves Hotel or La Belle Vie, which is just south of the Walker.
Me, either. I've always heard it with three syllables.
One more thing - 20.21 is closing soon. I haven't heard an exact date, but I've heard it's quickly approaching.
Wow... thank you all for your suggestions! : )
I had looked at the Museum website, and I think I will plan on visiting that right after my meeting.
Looking forward to my visit.
Thanks again, and if you're ever heading to Boston, stop by our local board for any suggestions!
Uhhhh....it's 3 syllables.
I have heard people say Nick-UH-let vs. Nick-OH-let but that's the only variation.
Steph0871 - you've really heard people say Nick-let? Huh.
This kind of fascinates me because I've never ever heard it said with two syllables.
It is kind of fun to ask outsiders how to pronounce Wayzata or Mahtomedi :-)
To be honest, I've never heard anyone fully pronounce that 'o'. "Nick-let" isn't really right either, though... more like "nick-a-let" with a really short half-syllable. Regardless, as long as you don't pronounce it "nick-oh-lay" you should be fine, right?
Anyway. When I was a student at the U, we were doing mass mailings for my department. There were a few new students from MN, and we were quizzing them on how to pronounce certain WI city names, too. It was hilarious
Menomonie, Oconomowoc, Wauwatosa are the first few that pop to mind.
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Oooh - I know all of those. :-)
My GPS cannot say Minnehaha. She says, "Min-UH-huh-huh." It sounds like she's laughing. And she says Way-ZOT-uh for Wayzata.
My CW from Iowa said Mahtomedi realllllly funny the first time. It was something like Mah-TOE-meh-dee. That's probably how I would say it too if I didn't know...it was just funny since I DO know. :-)
And lol at "Nick-o-lay".
Bar La Grassa is out.of.this.world.good. Lobster & Soft Egg Bruschetta is as good as everyone on yelp.com says. The 'pasta bar' is supposedly the place to sit, but Joe made reservations for us so we sat at a table. I haven't had such a rich, luxurious meal since we went on our honeymoon!
The Guthrie is fabulous - even if you don't see a show - but just to sight see. The river views are fantastic.
20.21 in the Walker is closing - I think a Parasole or D'Amico restaurant is going in it's place.. I can't find the article that I read this in.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fantastic, as others have said.
I'd also say that you should try to look for a local band to see - the music scene here is fantastic. thecurrent.org is a good resource for music.
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I deal with this all.the.time at my work.
Edina is often pronounced as - Eee-Deee-Nah (as in Dina Lohan)
Chanhassen is often pronounced with an "aaahhhh" in the middle. Chanhaaaahhhsen.
Shakopee - Shaw-Co-Pee with the emphasis on the 'co'
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D'Amico. Not the article that I read, but this explains it.
http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2011/02/2021_closing_da.php#
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Ok, as someone fairly new here, I've figured out Wayzata and Nicollet (I would have said Nick-oh-LAY). But how do you say "Mahtomedi" ?
Also, is 20.21 at the Walker expensive? OI'd like to try it out this week before it closes, but we blew our eating out budget on restaurant week. They don't have a menu posted online that I can find.
TIA
ha. I'm not sure I can even type how to pronounce Mahtomedi...
ma-toe-meed-I (the I gets its own syllable somehow.)
But then again, I'm the crazy one making Nicollet two syllables so you might not want to listen to me
Try making Google say Menomonie.. it's like "men-oh-MON-II-aaa" I laughed so hard the first time I heard it say that.
I'm trying to think of other funny WI town names...
Pewaukee
Aushwabenon
haha
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismenning/texans-trying-to-pronounce-wisconsin-city-names
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Hee hee.
I was recently surprised to hear the pronounciation for Montevideo!