These are listed in no particular order and almost are within 5-7 miles of the convention center.
Random Specialties:
Farmers Market Saturday Morning - Mill City Farmers market, don’t miss this!
Donuts – Glam Doll Donuts
Paleo Friendly – Brasa Rotisserie
Vegetarian / Vegan - Birchwood Café, Ecopolitan Restaurant, Himalayan Restaurant, Modern Times...most places in MSP will have an option for you.
Ice Cream – Izzy's and Sebastian Joes (Hennepin and Franklin)
Dancing, somewhere not poppy: Club Jager
Bowling and food: Townhall Lanes and Bryant Lake Bowl
Gay Bars: 19 Bar (heard it’s the best, never been)
Coffee and Tea:
Spyhouse on Nicollet Ave (Stumptown Coffee)
Glam Doll Donuts (Intelligentsia)
Eat Street Social - crafty
The Bachelor Farmer rated best restaurant in msp, Sunday no res
Casual Lunch:
World Street Kitchen for Tacos - fun and recently in bon appetit
Common Roots - chill and easy to eat with computer
Appetizers and
drinks:
Parlour (below Borough) - great ambiance
Marvel Bar (below bachelor farmer) - in nytimes for best bar in america, speakeasy
Bradstreet Crafthouse - known for amazing cocktails
Icehouse - (live music too) great sipping cocktails
Butcher and the Boar - (known for beer garden and whiskey)
Dinner:
Butcher and the Boar - meats, cocktails, beer garden
Eat Street Social - gastropub
Aster Café - I love this place, live music every night
Union Restaurant - rooftop and semi-fancy
Smack Shack - fish tacos are bomb :)
Red Stag - northeast msp favorite
Café and Bar Lurcat - classy, great wine
Black Sheep Pizza - never been but pizza looks yum (no gluten free crust avail)
Barbette - french: frites and champagne
Barbette - french: frites and champagne
Big Group:
Kind of far but
amazing:
Pizza Lola - amazingggg woodfired pizza (has gluten free crust avail)
Wise Acre Eatery - local farm, organic eats, small place
Blackbird - local, small and great noodle dish
Foxy Falafels - great for catering as well
Pig ate my pizza - awesome experience and pizza is originally funky (has gluten free avail)
The Nook - known for their juicy lucy's
The Nook - known for their juicy lucy's
Area for walking
around, shopping, eating:
Lyndale and Lake Street
Bikes for renting:
- Nice Ride (our bike sharing program, stations everywhere, enter for credit card, 5$ for 24 hours, you need to bring it back every 30 minutes and switch bikes, i.e. I bike to work, return bike to station, and after work I enter my credit card again (they will not charge your card again) it will give a different code and you can ride to the next station...so on.)
- If you want to go on a longer ride, all of the bike shops in town rent their bikes out for daily, weekly and weekend trips.
Routes:
Lake Calhoun: 3.2 miles around
- Nice Ride (our bike sharing program, stations everywhere, enter for credit card, 5$ for 24 hours, you need to bring it back every 30 minutes and switch bikes, i.e. I bike to work, return bike to station, and after work I enter my credit card again (they will not charge your card again) it will give a different code and you can ride to the next station...so on.)
- If you want to go on a longer ride, all of the bike shops in town rent their bikes out for daily, weekly and weekend trips.
Routes:
Lake Calhoun: 3.2 miles around
Lake of the Isles: 2.7ish around
Lake Harriet: 2.6ish around
Midtown Greenway: Bike, walk, and run highway that goes for miles. Convenient place to start is near the Midtown Exchange, Chicago and Lake street.
Yoga:
Corepower Downtown
Yoga Center Minneapolis
If you are from MSP and I forgot your favorite local spot. tweet me. @bobbilee19
Yoga Center Minneapolis
If you are from MSP and I forgot your favorite local spot. tweet me. @bobbilee19
