Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
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And since that's years away, my hope is that some Figlio-esque establishment moves into the ground level of Nic on 5th. Other than that site, I'm not sure there is much opportunity for many restaurants on the upper end of the Mall.
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Nice to see that they're restoring the street level fenestration to its original configuration. Less nice to see that they plan on hacking out a chunk of the cornice.
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Agreed. Jeromeo tweeted this photo of the 1940s facade buried behind later remodels. Look at that lovely vitrolite!
KLAD-EZEE apparently was a children;s clothing shop owned by Arlene Martin Carlson's family, Curt Carlson's wife
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 9928598138
KLAD-EZEE apparently was a children;s clothing shop owned by Arlene Martin Carlson's family, Curt Carlson's wife
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 9928598138
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If I remember correctly, The new Xcel building will not have any retail frontage. A negative note on what is otherwise a great project. Makes the Ritz block development even more critical to have street level shops if we want to maintain Nicollet Mall as a major retail corridor.I look forward to having the north end of the mall having the same levels of activity. But that will only happen if the CITY and developers make it mandatory to have a true street scape with more than one door of retail or restaurants at street level. The old Sheraton block has a lot of weight to carry on it's shoulders.
I heard a while back Nic on Fifth is planning to have a restaurant facing Nicollet Mall but no recent news.
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In totally minor downtown restaurant news, Downtown Diner, across from the Warehouse District light rail station, is remodeling and rebranding to Sal's on Fifth.
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Haha, who's doing their marketing? Sign in the window appears to say "same great pizza". Right. Lucé, please.
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there was a diner there?
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Yup, same great pizza, new look.
Also, the Tobacco & convenience store right next door appears to be closed closed.
Also, the Tobacco & convenience store right next door appears to be closed closed.
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There is also the RFP on The Nicollet Hotel Block that could bring some action up there.Makes the Ritz block development even more critical to have street level shops if we want to maintain Nicollet Mall as a major retail corridor.
I heard a while back Nic on Fifth is planning to have a restaurant facing Nicollet Mall but no recent news.
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Not sure if this belongs in the (now moribund) Soo Line Building thread, but Brasserie Zentral will begin taking reservations later this month, April 21 according to Facebook: http://zentral-mpls.com/ https://www.facebook.com/zentral.mpls
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More Information:In totally minor downtown restaurant news, Downtown Diner, across from the Warehouse District light rail station, is remodeling and rebranding to Sal's on Fifth.
After dad's sudden death, brother and sister run restaurants in his honor
Apr 3, 2014
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... iness.html
Amanda and Adam Elazab grew up in pizzerias, spending so much time in them that the smell reminds Amanda of her late father, Abdelsalam "Sal" Elezab, who died last April after a short bout with cancer.
The siblings are keeping their dad's businesses alive, continuing operations at Flameburger on Rice Street in Roseville and remodeling his closed Downtown Diner pizzeria in Minneapolis and renaming it Sal's on Fifth. "With everything we do, we are trying to do a good job, because we want to carry on his legacy and make sure everything he accomplished wasn't for nothing," said Amanda Elazab. She said her father moved to the United States from a small farming village in Egypt in 1979, when he was around 30 years old with just $30 in his pocket.
He worked his way up from washing dishes to eventually opening a couple Slice of New York pizzerias, operating Mickey's Diner on West Seventh in St. Paul and buying Flameburger in 1999. Last March, the 64-year-old began feeling stomach pains and found out he had liver cancer that had spread to the rest of his body, his daughter said. He died two-and-a-half weeks later. ...
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Kim Bartmann has applied to the HPC to replace windows at 1612 Harmon, the former home of Nick & Eddie's/ Cafe Maude2. She had her wedding reception in that space last summer. I guess she liked it!
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http://minneapolis.eater.com/archives/2 ... aurant.php
And eater saw the agenda too...
And eater saw the agenda too...
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Prepare yourself for an Alley Entrance only restaurant.
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Walked by this today and the first floor is looking great, although it will be absolutely tragic if the rest of the building remains pink.Are they restoring the exterior on the entire building or just the area where the new bar is going in?I didn't know whether to throw it in here or the North Loop forum, but work appears to have begun on converting the 3 story building attached to Deja Vu into the sports bar (named The Office) that was proposed a while ago. This includes a full restoration of the exterior, which I'm pretty excited to see.
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I noticed that as well...the upper floors look untouched.
Maybe we'll just have to hold a happy hour there and hassle them about it.
Maybe we'll just have to hold a happy hour there and hassle them about it.
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does anyone have internal floorplans of the office? How much interior space from the Vu does it now use?
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Red Cow is opening a North Loop location. I'm starting to lose track of the restaurants / chefs looking to open spots in the NL.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... on-is.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... on-is.html
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