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This is awesome news! Korean fried chicken and other deliciousness. Also opening in Dinkytown!
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... lling.html
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... lling.html
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Whoa. This is awesome. Loved eating at Bonchon when I worked in the Bay Area last year.
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Article is locked, where is it going?
Edit: Davanni's Pizza spot. Private browsing window FTW.
REALLY excited for this. Uptown is sneakily becoming a hotbed of good Asian restaurants
Edit: Davanni's Pizza spot. Private browsing window FTW.
REALLY excited for this. Uptown is sneakily becoming a hotbed of good Asian restaurants
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The Davanni's spot
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Bar Louie has closed- https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ml?ana=twt
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I'm surprised. It always seemed busy, especially during patio season. Great opportunity for someone else ...Bar Louie has closed- https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ml?ana=twt
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I heard that Culver's will be going in to the Dulono's space at 607 West Lake. Can anyone confirm this?
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It seems really unlikely. Being in the pedestrian oriented overlay, not only drive thrus, but also fast food are banned. But gosh be darn, I would love to have a Culver’s in walking distance.
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A ban on drive thrus seems pretty clear cut... but fast food? How is fast food even defined for such an ordinance?
I love having a Culver's in the Midway... it was the best recent addition to the neighborhood until the stadium came along.
I love having a Culver's in the Midway... it was the best recent addition to the neighborhood until the stadium came along.
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Per 520.160 - definitions:
With the above, I think they'd meet the definition without making changes to their business model.Restaurant, fast food. An establishment whose design or principal method of operation includes five (5) or more of the following characteristics. In addition, any restaurant with a drive-through facility shall be considered a fast food restaurant.
(1) A permanent menu board is provided from which to select and order food. (2) Customers pay for food before consuming it. (3) A self-service condiment bar is provided. (4) Trash receptacles are provided for self-service bussing. (5) Furnishing plan indicates hard finished stationary seating arrangement. (6) Most main course food items are substantially prepared or cooked on premises and packaged in individual, nonreusable containers
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If they really wanted, it probably wouldn't be hard to skirt 3 and 5 to avoid falling under the ban.
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Yeah, having condiments at the tables and, I guess, cushioned chairs instead of hard booths should be doable. Additionally, since their standard business model already includes servers bringing customer's food out to their tables, it wouldn't be too hard to remove the garbage cans and have them bus tables too, like Noodles and Co.
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Some of their restaurants, like the Richfield one, includes movable chairs. The only stationary seating are the booths.
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Why does our code ban fast food restaurants? I understand (and approve of) banning drive-throughs, but pedestrians need to eat quickly too.
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Yeah, I actually really hate that our pedestrian overlay districts ban fast food. It just comes off as the worst sort of progressive "we know what's best for you." It's not like fast food needs a drive-thru (which is a legitimate thing to ban). I assume it also will prevent more than a few fast food places in emerging, walkable nodes from redeveloping.
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Case in point... most skyway food joints easily meet 4/6 of the items above. Depending on their furniture and packaging they could have 5 or all 6. I consider most to be fast casual, not fast food.
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Another Not-Uptown-But-We-Don't-Have-A-LynLake-Business update:
Heyday is closing. Two new restaurants showing up in its place. http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/he ... /483351921
Heyday is closing. Two new restaurants showing up in its place. http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/he ... /483351921
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I am a not-infrequent visitor to the bar side of Heyday, but it looks like some version of that will be preserved.
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Quite surprised it's been open this long/
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I've always heard really high praise for Heyday but location-wise it felt more like a neighborhood restaurant than somewhere exciting to go have an expensive meal. So a few times I considered it while looking for a nice dinner, but instead always ended up somewhere more "happening" like the North Loop.
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