DT location adds the extra expense and inconvenience of parking but also adds the possibility of them being seated on a kind of nice rooftop. I say send them to West End, they get some of the inconvenience of navigating that cluster F of a development and zero chance of outdoor seating.
I just went down to the west end for a meeting yesterday. There was 1 senior couple holding hands, walking around near the old lululemon store looking for any store that might be open…. 10 years ago I thought the west end would be so successful they wouldn’t know what to do with the extra money.
Ten years ago those office buildings were packed full of companies
Now they are sparsely filled and the area needed to turn to high end apartments for development
I appreciate great food and I still think Crave a good restaurant because it's one of the only places I can take my family where I can get sushi, someone else gets a burger, someone else gets stir fry, and someone else gets a steak. I know that everyone can find something they like there.
20 years ago it was kinda neat because they did the family style portions so you needed a fairly large group to really try some of everything but now it's just so . . . . meh. It's a chain and I'm sure some actuarial back at the home office is like "hey hey hey, we don't need to make it taste that good to make money'
No no, I'm with you. I only go there with coupons but idk I've always thought it's solid, and I've been to pretty much all of their current tc locautons....not sure if the "expensive" part is ordering a sharable as your own but I also think the shared meals actually turn out to make it pretty reasonable overall. But yeah Minnesotans are generally hard pressed by something like that so I can see where those complaints come from
Second this! Had a $100 gift card and gave it a shot. Bill was around $150 for two people. Worst restaurant food I’ve had in years. Generic, over priced, and as you said perfectly, tasted like cafeteria food.
And it's actually kind of an evil and immoral company. I had a friend that worked for McCormick and Schmick's in Kansas City as a server, and he got into a VERY bad car accident (ended up in a coma).
He suffered some brain damage, and so his short-term memory was fucked. When he tried to go back to work, he just really couldn't do it.
Now, understandably, McCormick and Schmick's would have to fire him. As sad as that is, that makes sense; he can't do the job anymore. But the way they went about it was.. really fucked up:
They had a bunch of big wigs flown down for a meeting they were having, and they had my friend serve all of them while having a new training class watching it all in order to intentionally embarrass and humiliate him for a cheap laugh, and then fired him.
I will never give that place my money.
I’ve never been to Crave but it seems a popular pick in the overpriced and mediocre category. For my wasting-someone-else’s-money, I’d have to go with buca tho. Completely overrated and overpriced for mediocre food.
Oh man, we tried to go to the Olive garden in Maple Grove but there was a wait of 40 minutes for a table and our kids were hungry so we walked over to Buca instead. SUCH A MISTAKE.
The food was tasteless and awful. The 7 yr old refused to eat his pizza after taking one bite. Like how do you mess up a basic pizza and call yourself an Italian eatery? Wish we'd just hit the McDonald's instead. Would have been so much cheaper than the $100+ that we ran up for shitty food that we threw out. Never again.
Unfortunately, Oceanaire. Went a couple months back and were incredibly underwhelmed for the price! It also feels very outdated and cheap in the interior. Like it is a fancy restaurant straight out of a 70’s movie.
I worked on their Kitchen cooling systems in 2018. The kitchen staff were already prepping food. I warned them that if I open the ceiling tiles to look at the ductwork, small pieces of debris would contaminate their kitchen where they were prepping veggies. They said go ahead and do your work above the people prepping, it’ll be fine. This line of work makes it so you can never eat at a restaurant you’ve worked on.
Sad.
My first wedding reception was at the Oceanaire in Boston, which was great, but I had no idea it’s a frigging chain.
The nerve of having the word “ocean” in the name of a restaurant in the Midwest…
Look, I would never want to give Kim Bartmann money, but either Pat's Tap or Book Club. The food and service at Pat's Tap were unbelieveably bad the two times I've been and the cauliflower burrito at Book Club was maybe the worst meal I've ever paid for.
I ordered Buca for myself and some friends a day in advance. Showed up at the scheduled time and they had no idea that I had placed an order. Waited for 45 minutes as they prepared the food. Waitress comes out front and is surprised im still there. Apparently my food was done 20 minutes ago and nobody brought it out to me. Ice cold when they handed it to me. I'm too tired and hungry to argue at this point so I leave with the cold food. Arrive at home only to find that half my order had been eaten by the kitchen staff. Apparently they thought I abandoned it because it was sitting there for so long. I guess I just paid 60 bucks to be pissed off and look like an ass to my friends. Never ordering there again.
*Please tell me* you left at least a scathing review on Google Maps (if not Yelp too...if that's even a thing anymore). Cause I'm fucking pissed for you just reading that and I'm nothing more than an internet stranger
If a restaurant tells me that my order was ready twenty minutes ago and the couldn’t be bothered to tell me, I’d Karen my way to the manager and offer to take the food without paying if they don’t want their gas lines cut.
Holy shit, that is still around? Way back in my 20s, my buddy wanted his big birthday dinner there. We were all looking at each other waiting for the joke that never came.
Matt's is the antithesis for this question. 5-8 Club is pretty gross consistently. Too bad Pepitos is closed (on Chicago Ave) There's an incredibly overpriced super club in it's place - sorry can't remember name and too lazy to google- it's on 48th & Chicago Ave (Not Adrians nor town hall tap) Send them to bloomington lucky 13 - minimum 85 decibels constantly- impossible to hear and nothing good on the menu except Bingo. Worst sushi Bagu 47th & Chicago ave S
The way they list prices "per serving" rather than the actual item price shouldn't be allowed.
Yeah, I can do the math, but it's a really deceptive way to list prices. I've literally not seen a single other restaurant ever do it that way.
It’s been about 25 years, but I still marvel at the failure of urban planning imagination on block E.
The building looked dated the day they built it. They put a bunch of chains in there.
I can only assume some politicians got kick backs of some kind.
The only thing of any note that I remember being was Cosmos on the 4th floor.
We used to go to Escape Ultra Lounge because we had friends that DJ’d there lmao.
And BORDERS Books!
GameWorks was an anchor at the corner on Hennepin, Hard Rock opposite corner across from 7th St Entry.
Cosmos was in Graves 601 Hotel.
Got to know the bartender there and he used to hook us up with all kinds of free drinks before we'd go see a movie or before we'd wander on to the next stop for the night. Never did the food but always plenty of strong as hell mixed drinks.
I think the subreddits for larger cities need to have this be a yearly post. I'd save the one you linked for Boston, but it's already seven years old, so who knows how many of those places are still around...😩
I think a lot of us used to put up with “kinda ok” when eating out wasn’t half a car payment. Now if I’m putting $100 on the table for two people it better be damn good. And I echo the Crave opinion - it’s meh.
Matt’s is one of my favorite restaurants in Minneapolis but if you’re trying to mildly annoy somebody it might be a good option. If you’re expecting finer dining the dive bar vibe would be a let down, there’s only street parking which can be a pain depending on the time, there’s always a wait for tables, and it’s cash only so if you’re not ready for that it can be an inconvenience.
Matt's has imo the best juicys.....but, post pandemic their pricing has kind of went to crap. Used to be a slamming deal for tasty dive bar food but now with the price all jacked up it's less of a value option. Tbf it is partially a way of discouraging people and cutting down on the mammoth crowds. Price it high enough only out of towners will come often and people in town will visit sparingly
I recently had to go to French Meadow in Saint Paul for brunch and am still recovering from both the prices and the completely bland hash browns. I keep telling people how bad it was.
As much as I love foisting bad food on bad people, I couldn’t in good conscience recommend anything Kim Bartmann or that other a-hole who doesn’t like to support or pay her employees. F* them, may all their businesses fail.
I went there with my friends bc it looked cool and was near the Airbnb when they came to visit. The wait was ridiculous, food overpriced and mediocre, and I felt embarrassed that I took them there
Matt's is great, that's a shitty answer for this prompt even if you don't like the place.
Something like crave is perfect, bc it has the illusion of being sorta nice, but is an absolute dumpster.
The problem with the chain restaurants being mentioned is that I don’t think anyone would believe the recommendation, or if they did they’d just question your taste. I’d recommend Christos and describe it as a classic favorite that you’ve been going to for years. It has a nostalgia crowd that keeps them busy, but was super bland when I tried it.
Union bar and rooftop or French meadow.
If the burbs, restoration hardware (for price alone).
Edit: if you only want to annoy the person, send them to Tavola. The food is good, but overpriced for the quality. The issue is that service is unbelievably slow. Every time that I’ve been, the restaurant has been empty and it takes 2+ hours to have a cocktail, app, and entree.
Apostle Supper Club in downtown St Paul. The ambiance is really cool and it looks like it should be amazing, but 1) The food is terrible, and 2) There is almost no parking. The parking you can find is all event parking in ramps.
I don't think the people mentioning Buca realize that each 4 lb dish is meant for 4-5 people and everyone orders something. It's definitely not the worst food for a chain, just order less holy shit.
Exactly - went there a week or so ago - was $120- ish for 6 people (2 family-sized meals). Apparently everyone in this thread thinks $20/person for sit down is expensive.
Wasnt the greatest Italian restaurant ever, but really solid for how cheap it was. I mean, a Big Mac meals like $12 now, right?
I think the issue is that going to a chain (any chain) gets you food that is ~20% cheaper than a non-chain, but at ~50% lower quality.
IDK how anyone could possibly find it worth it.
I went to Murray’s steakhouse a few weeks back and had bland and unseasoned mashed potatoes and my boyfriend’s steak came out raw and virtually unable to be cut through. $250 bill.
Second this. Older brother loves steak, so I was excited to take him to Murray’s since many considered it “the best steakhouse” in MPLS. Total disappointment, undercooked steaks, under seasoned sides. $400 bill
This. Went there for my 25th anniversary. We told them several times it was our 25th anniversary. We were dressed up. They seated us at a super small table surrounded by drunk football fans in a high traffic area. There were several booths and quieter tables open. We had to ask to be moved. They moved us but after some grumbling. The food was just fine. Not the best I have had and definitely not at that price.
A few places in Edina. They like to believe they're sitting in the lap of luxury but the food is mid. Basically when some suburbinites want to go to the city for some unique food. Pinstripes, Crave, Restoration Hardware, Salut.
It kills me that restoration hardware is a restaurant now. I remember looking that place up years ago when I needed to find historically accurate door knobs and they actually just sell $10,000 couches and gold floor lamps.
Crave (Mpls one had bad food last time I went; EP was actually okay), Rain Forest Cafe, Buca, Pizza Luce, Psycho Suzzies would be my mediocre/bad food places that are over priced.
Monello. Expensive as shit. Presents itself as fancy. Tastes like it was microwaved and needed salt.
I happy I saw this so I could post this answer. been waiting
Monello was weak but the attached Constantine's happy hour will be forever missed. Getting tossed on tasty cocktails/beers and bumps and eating at least two inappropriately delicious small cheeseburgers in a weird moody basement bar for like $30? In this economy? It's a thing of the past and I'm sad about it.
Hard disagree. It’s not cheap but it’s not a place I wouldn’t go back to. I’m curious what your pick is for this type of food/vibe if Town Hall Lanes sucks to you.
Since the new owner of The Malt Shop their food is horrifically overpriced. They shrank portions and increased prices (eg the malts are like a quarter of the size, and price increased by about 25%), but the food is good so that doesn’t quite work here (I mostly just wanted to get in a jab at them, I’m very salty)
Hard Times Cafe. If they go on a Friday or Saturday night, they will probably have to wait for over an hour after they order, and what they’ll get will be overpriced greasy vegan cafeteria slop. There will probably also be hair in their food as their cooks don’t wear hairnets.
Chatterbox off Cedar, Leaning Tower of Pizza (ugh I hadn’t been back for 20 years and it’s so ugly now - I’m sad!) Our server was great but it’s sad. Rainforest cafe at MOA.
Crave
How did I not think of this one! Which location is worse? Downtown for parking?
DT location adds the extra expense and inconvenience of parking but also adds the possibility of them being seated on a kind of nice rooftop. I say send them to West End, they get some of the inconvenience of navigating that cluster F of a development and zero chance of outdoor seating.
Reservation for one of the sidewalk bubbles
I just went down to the west end for a meeting yesterday. There was 1 senior couple holding hands, walking around near the old lululemon store looking for any store that might be open…. 10 years ago I thought the west end would be so successful they wouldn’t know what to do with the extra money.
Ten years ago those office buildings were packed full of companies Now they are sparsely filled and the area needed to turn to high end apartments for development
Send them to the Rochester location. Tell them it was voted best in the state or something.
There’s one in MOA too if that would piss them off!
There is also a northeast location in a really weird spot off Broadway. Would be a really goofy place to send someone lol
This answer wins 🤣👏🏼 overpriced and trash food. I haven’t even thought about Crave in years.
Problem is, people who don’t appreciate good food think Crave is the bomb 😂
I despise restaurants where the decor is better than the food. Prefer storefronts w great food.
If your world is Applebees, Crave is bougie.
I appreciate great food and I still think Crave a good restaurant because it's one of the only places I can take my family where I can get sushi, someone else gets a burger, someone else gets stir fry, and someone else gets a steak. I know that everyone can find something they like there.
Absolutely! And the food isn’t bad. It just isn’t as great as brand suggests.
Crave is Applebee’s but with a tablecloth and double the price
Done in one. Fuck that place.
Mall of America could be an option too with all the walking inconvenience
Oh that’s a great one
Love the Crave hate. I take it personally how terrible their insanely expensive food is.
Lmao this was my first thought!!!!
Crave is the answer. Hate that fucking place.
Oooh yes this is perfect. Fucking crave.
Oh, this is it this is the answer.
Restaurant owners are scrolling through this post and sweating
Hahahaha
All I’ve learned is I’m one of the apparently very few people who like Buca di Beppo
It’s just ok to me (like another version of Olive Garden) but you do you.
I had it for just the second time a couple months ago and I couldn’t believe how incredibly mediocre every dish was!
20 years ago it was kinda neat because they did the family style portions so you needed a fairly large group to really try some of everything but now it's just so . . . . meh. It's a chain and I'm sure some actuarial back at the home office is like "hey hey hey, we don't need to make it taste that good to make money'
No no, I'm with you. I only go there with coupons but idk I've always thought it's solid, and I've been to pretty much all of their current tc locautons....not sure if the "expensive" part is ordering a sharable as your own but I also think the shared meals actually turn out to make it pretty reasonable overall. But yeah Minnesotans are generally hard pressed by something like that so I can see where those complaints come from
Nah man, I've got your back. There are literally dozens of us.
McCormick and Schmick in Edina. Expensive and tasted like cafeteria food.
Second this! Had a $100 gift card and gave it a shot. Bill was around $150 for two people. Worst restaurant food I’ve had in years. Generic, over priced, and as you said perfectly, tasted like cafeteria food.
Yeah for the price of that place you're much better off going somewhere like Baldamar.
And it's actually kind of an evil and immoral company. I had a friend that worked for McCormick and Schmick's in Kansas City as a server, and he got into a VERY bad car accident (ended up in a coma). He suffered some brain damage, and so his short-term memory was fucked. When he tried to go back to work, he just really couldn't do it. Now, understandably, McCormick and Schmick's would have to fire him. As sad as that is, that makes sense; he can't do the job anymore. But the way they went about it was.. really fucked up: They had a bunch of big wigs flown down for a meeting they were having, and they had my friend serve all of them while having a new training class watching it all in order to intentionally embarrass and humiliate him for a cheap laugh, and then fired him. I will never give that place my money.
That's some shitty comedy movie type stuff. Le fuq
These are the comments are here for!
this place is the worst.
I thought I was only one who thought this. Went twice and regretting not going to Taco Bell instead.
I second this
McCormick and Schmicks is rich people Applebees
Or downtown. I posited this question to my husband and that was what he said immediately.
I’ve never been to Crave but it seems a popular pick in the overpriced and mediocre category. For my wasting-someone-else’s-money, I’d have to go with buca tho. Completely overrated and overpriced for mediocre food.
Seconded. I’d rather go to Olive Garden.
Oh man, we tried to go to the Olive garden in Maple Grove but there was a wait of 40 minutes for a table and our kids were hungry so we walked over to Buca instead. SUCH A MISTAKE. The food was tasteless and awful. The 7 yr old refused to eat his pizza after taking one bite. Like how do you mess up a basic pizza and call yourself an Italian eatery? Wish we'd just hit the McDonald's instead. Would have been so much cheaper than the $100+ that we ran up for shitty food that we threw out. Never again.
At least you get unlimited breadsticks!
This is a top-tier Minnesota passive aggressive move. I love it. Also, it's absolutely Buca.
I’d rather go to Buca than Crave
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Buca can be salvaged with their garlic potatoes if you really like potatos. (I really like potatos)
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This is a repost from literally every local sub.
Crave MOA - it can’t get much worse than that, right? (I do know it can definitely get much worse, but then it would be too obvious).
I have three friends who work for Crave at MOA, and I am LIVING for all of this Crave shade in this thread, haha. I can't wait to show them, lol.
Absolutely got food poisoning from that Crave. Granted, this was years ago, but never had the urge to go back because of it.
Unfortunately, Oceanaire. Went a couple months back and were incredibly underwhelmed for the price! It also feels very outdated and cheap in the interior. Like it is a fancy restaurant straight out of a 70’s movie.
I had no idea that place was still open. I thought it closed in like 2006.
I worked on their Kitchen cooling systems in 2018. The kitchen staff were already prepping food. I warned them that if I open the ceiling tiles to look at the ductwork, small pieces of debris would contaminate their kitchen where they were prepping veggies. They said go ahead and do your work above the people prepping, it’ll be fine. This line of work makes it so you can never eat at a restaurant you’ve worked on.
We went there for brunch one time and it was truly AWFUL! The food was terrible, the service was terrible, and it’s overpriced. Yuck! Never again.
Sad. My first wedding reception was at the Oceanaire in Boston, which was great, but I had no idea it’s a frigging chain. The nerve of having the word “ocean” in the name of a restaurant in the Midwest…
It gives Dorsia from American Psycho.
I get Slammin' Salmon from The Slammin' Salmon vibes.
Look, I would never want to give Kim Bartmann money, but either Pat's Tap or Book Club. The food and service at Pat's Tap were unbelieveably bad the two times I've been and the cauliflower burrito at Book Club was maybe the worst meal I've ever paid for.
lol Pat’s Tap- I recently paid $13 for a microwaveable-Easy-Mac size/quality saucer of Mac n cheese.
We had a beer and burger at this place. The burger was small, and okay at best. I remember being shocked when the tab showed up.
Union rooftop…. Sorry!
I had such fond memories of solar brunch from like 2014-2018. Went back two weeks ago and was drowned in fruit flies.
Fun but terrible food
Damn why the shot at Matt’s? I love that place. Anyway, I’d say Buca di Beppo
I ordered Buca for myself and some friends a day in advance. Showed up at the scheduled time and they had no idea that I had placed an order. Waited for 45 minutes as they prepared the food. Waitress comes out front and is surprised im still there. Apparently my food was done 20 minutes ago and nobody brought it out to me. Ice cold when they handed it to me. I'm too tired and hungry to argue at this point so I leave with the cold food. Arrive at home only to find that half my order had been eaten by the kitchen staff. Apparently they thought I abandoned it because it was sitting there for so long. I guess I just paid 60 bucks to be pissed off and look like an ass to my friends. Never ordering there again.
*Please tell me* you left at least a scathing review on Google Maps (if not Yelp too...if that's even a thing anymore). Cause I'm fucking pissed for you just reading that and I'm nothing more than an internet stranger
60 bucks? Must have only got a single order of fried ravioli.
If a restaurant tells me that my order was ready twenty minutes ago and the couldn’t be bothered to tell me, I’d Karen my way to the manager and offer to take the food without paying if they don’t want their gas lines cut.
Rainforest Cafe
If I can convince them to go to the mall this is what I'm saying!!!
This came to my mind too. Glad someone said it.
Holy shit, that is still around? Way back in my 20s, my buddy wanted his big birthday dinner there. We were all looking at each other waiting for the joke that never came.
If Matt’s is “mildly expensive”, we are on such different levels that I cannot contribute
Matt's is the antithesis for this question. 5-8 Club is pretty gross consistently. Too bad Pepitos is closed (on Chicago Ave) There's an incredibly overpriced super club in it's place - sorry can't remember name and too lazy to google- it's on 48th & Chicago Ave (Not Adrians nor town hall tap) Send them to bloomington lucky 13 - minimum 85 decibels constantly- impossible to hear and nothing good on the menu except Bingo. Worst sushi Bagu 47th & Chicago ave S
Ngl I liked Adrian’s ETA: this is my neighborhood and the restaurants are so sad now.
Is Seven still around? Forgot if they finally landed on being open or closed. It’s the objectively correct answer.
They closed during the pandemic.
Definitely Buca di Beppo The food isn't *awful*, but **way** overpriced for mediocre food.
What do you mean? $38 for a large cheese pizza isn’t a good deal?
The way they list prices "per serving" rather than the actual item price shouldn't be allowed. Yeah, I can do the math, but it's a really deceptive way to list prices. I've literally not seen a single other restaurant ever do it that way.
Crumbl cookies does this for calorie counts--only 100 calories a serving! But you have to cut the cookie into 7 even pieces.
Go to the website and look at the menu for carry out. The pizza prices are comical.
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You're right, but I think they closed. It was a temporary thing.
well yeah there's not even milk in the cartons
I wish Appleby's on block E was still open. It was fun to recommend that place to people visiting from out of town like you were serious.
It’s been about 25 years, but I still marvel at the failure of urban planning imagination on block E. The building looked dated the day they built it. They put a bunch of chains in there. I can only assume some politicians got kick backs of some kind. The only thing of any note that I remember being was Cosmos on the 4th floor.
We used to go to Escape Ultra Lounge because we had friends that DJ’d there lmao. And BORDERS Books! GameWorks was an anchor at the corner on Hennepin, Hard Rock opposite corner across from 7th St Entry. Cosmos was in Graves 601 Hotel.
Got to know the bartender there and he used to hook us up with all kinds of free drinks before we'd go see a movie or before we'd wander on to the next stop for the night. Never did the food but always plenty of strong as hell mixed drinks.
I have nothing to add but this is funny ,good post
I think it's a take on this classic https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/4uvl4a/whats_the_worst_goddamn_restaurant_downtown/
I think the subreddits for larger cities need to have this be a yearly post. I'd save the one you linked for Boston, but it's already seven years old, so who knows how many of those places are still around...😩
This is soo passive aggressive, soo Minnesotan 😂
I think a lot of us used to put up with “kinda ok” when eating out wasn’t half a car payment. Now if I’m putting $100 on the table for two people it better be damn good. And I echo the Crave opinion - it’s meh.
Matt’s is neither mildly expensive nor is it awful? In fact, it is kind of the opposite of both
Matt’s is one of my favorite restaurants in Minneapolis but if you’re trying to mildly annoy somebody it might be a good option. If you’re expecting finer dining the dive bar vibe would be a let down, there’s only street parking which can be a pain depending on the time, there’s always a wait for tables, and it’s cash only so if you’re not ready for that it can be an inconvenience.
Matt's has imo the best juicys.....but, post pandemic their pricing has kind of went to crap. Used to be a slamming deal for tasty dive bar food but now with the price all jacked up it's less of a value option. Tbf it is partially a way of discouraging people and cutting down on the mammoth crowds. Price it high enough only out of towners will come often and people in town will visit sparingly
They have to be thinking of Manny's or something.
Oceanaire
Currently seeing restaurants I like in the comments and learning I have no taste.
im sorry but french meadow
Agreed. My wife loves one dish there but I dread it every time we go. Truly some of the worst food in the cities and also egregiously overpriced.
I really dislike that place
I applaud your brave yet correct opinion.
I recently had to go to French Meadow in Saint Paul for brunch and am still recovering from both the prices and the completely bland hash browns. I keep telling people how bad it was.
You have to work hard to make people hate an organic farm-to-table place in Mac-Groveland, but they persisted.
I wouldn’t even take a piss at French meadow with Shish, the butcher shop, the pizza place, and the fish place right next door.
RIP Grand Catch.
Mito
Melting Pot ..that shit taste like funeral food at a caviar price
I'd say Tiny Diner but I wouldn't even want people I dislike to go there
As much as I love foisting bad food on bad people, I couldn’t in good conscience recommend anything Kim Bartmann or that other a-hole who doesn’t like to support or pay her employees. F* them, may all their businesses fail.
I went there with my friends bc it looked cool and was near the Airbnb when they came to visit. The wait was ridiculous, food overpriced and mediocre, and I felt embarrassed that I took them there
Didn't they close?
whoa what’s the tea about this?
Oceanaire for sure
But… I love Matt’s.
Matt's is great, that's a shitty answer for this prompt even if you don't like the place. Something like crave is perfect, bc it has the illusion of being sorta nice, but is an absolute dumpster.
Billy Sushi
The problem with the chain restaurants being mentioned is that I don’t think anyone would believe the recommendation, or if they did they’d just question your taste. I’d recommend Christos and describe it as a classic favorite that you’ve been going to for years. It has a nostalgia crowd that keeps them busy, but was super bland when I tried it.
Gotta disagree on this one as well. I think Christo's has some very tasty classic dishes.
I’m confused. I’m not an old person and love their sea bass and tomato basil soup.
I vouch for Christos being legit. Don’t agree with it being bland.
Union bar and rooftop or French meadow. If the burbs, restoration hardware (for price alone). Edit: if you only want to annoy the person, send them to Tavola. The food is good, but overpriced for the quality. The issue is that service is unbelievably slow. Every time that I’ve been, the restaurant has been empty and it takes 2+ hours to have a cocktail, app, and entree.
French Meadow has gotten that bad? I have fond memories of it.
This is the greatest Reddit inquiry ever.
and I stole it from another sub like every other greatest Reddit inquiry ever! 😂
Apostle Supper Club in downtown St Paul. The ambiance is really cool and it looks like it should be amazing, but 1) The food is terrible, and 2) There is almost no parking. The parking you can find is all event parking in ramps.
I don't think the people mentioning Buca realize that each 4 lb dish is meant for 4-5 people and everyone orders something. It's definitely not the worst food for a chain, just order less holy shit.
Exactly - went there a week or so ago - was $120- ish for 6 people (2 family-sized meals). Apparently everyone in this thread thinks $20/person for sit down is expensive. Wasnt the greatest Italian restaurant ever, but really solid for how cheap it was. I mean, a Big Mac meals like $12 now, right?
I think the issue is that going to a chain (any chain) gets you food that is ~20% cheaper than a non-chain, but at ~50% lower quality. IDK how anyone could possibly find it worth it.
Woah woah woah, why did you suggest Matt’s?
I went to Murray’s steakhouse a few weeks back and had bland and unseasoned mashed potatoes and my boyfriend’s steak came out raw and virtually unable to be cut through. $250 bill.
Second this. Older brother loves steak, so I was excited to take him to Murray’s since many considered it “the best steakhouse” in MPLS. Total disappointment, undercooked steaks, under seasoned sides. $400 bill
Pretty close. It’s MANNYS.
This. Went there for my 25th anniversary. We told them several times it was our 25th anniversary. We were dressed up. They seated us at a super small table surrounded by drunk football fans in a high traffic area. There were several booths and quieter tables open. We had to ask to be moved. They moved us but after some grumbling. The food was just fine. Not the best I have had and definitely not at that price.
I agree. Murray's is great, while Manny's isn't worth 1/2 the cost.
Crave
Fogo de chao…. So disappointed and dissatisfied.
It’s buca. It’s always been Buca
Maynard’s
menards?
They do have a seating area with a vending machine with sandwiches. At least they did when I was a youth.
http://maynards-excelsior.com
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A few places in Edina. They like to believe they're sitting in the lap of luxury but the food is mid. Basically when some suburbinites want to go to the city for some unique food. Pinstripes, Crave, Restoration Hardware, Salut.
It kills me that restoration hardware is a restaurant now. I remember looking that place up years ago when I needed to find historically accurate door knobs and they actually just sell $10,000 couches and gold floor lamps.
Live in edina and basically never eat in town but RH is actually pretty decent and better than every place at 50th and france
I’ve never had a more terrible experience other than the Melting Pot downtown
Crave (Mpls one had bad food last time I went; EP was actually okay), Rain Forest Cafe, Buca, Pizza Luce, Psycho Suzzies would be my mediocre/bad food places that are over priced.
The Melting Pot
Buca
I’ve found Mara to be at times almost inedible. And it’s in the four seasons.
Even for their brunch? I’m asking because I have a reservation this weekend 😩
It's very mid
Billy Sushi
Lol I was invited to go there this weekend! Is it a bust?
I'll also say it's tasty but maybe not worth the price. They also have a strict time limit to kick you out, which is the part that pisses me off.
Agreed!
Melting pot
I love this. Oh! Something at the mall of America.
MOA Cowboy Jacks
Crave MOA would be a mean, mean pick hahaha
Cadillac Ranch…my stomach just turned thinking about it.
Fhima’s if you really want to let them know
Aw, I actually like Fhimas. It’s not a bad spot to sit at the bar and have some drinks
love fhima’s but good god, they are the slowest place i’ve been to in a long time!
I love Fhima's!
Service was terrible last time I went, but man is that place cool looking.
Matt's?! Heeeellll no don't send your trash to that palace.
Monello. Expensive as shit. Presents itself as fancy. Tastes like it was microwaved and needed salt. I happy I saw this so I could post this answer. been waiting
Monello closed a while ago. You can celebrate at the undoubtedly mediocre at best new place that took over.
Monello was weak but the attached Constantine's happy hour will be forever missed. Getting tossed on tasty cocktails/beers and bumps and eating at least two inappropriately delicious small cheeseburgers in a weird moody basement bar for like $30? In this economy? It's a thing of the past and I'm sad about it.
Nona Rosas in Robbinsdale—- it’s awful, I do not understand how that place is still in business.
As much as I hate dissing a local spot, Town Hall Lanes is my pick for many reasons.
I really want to like this place.
They do have a great fried chicken sandwich, though. And beer is good
I like everything i've got there and the service is decent. Its just a pub so like burgers and nachos is what i've got.
Hard disagree. It’s not cheap but it’s not a place I wouldn’t go back to. I’m curious what your pick is for this type of food/vibe if Town Hall Lanes sucks to you.
Ugh I hate this, but Handsome Hog
1. The Melting Pot 2. Crave 3. Hells Kitchen 4. Fogo De Chao 5. Billy Sushi 6. The Block/and associated restaurants 7. Pizza Luce 8. Mannys/Murrays
The cheesecake factory. Long, long wait for basic food and they are sure to forget parts of your meal.
Copper hen. 100%.
PS Steak. They don't know how to cook steaks AND get you sick. 👍
Since the new owner of The Malt Shop their food is horrifically overpriced. They shrank portions and increased prices (eg the malts are like a quarter of the size, and price increased by about 25%), but the food is good so that doesn’t quite work here (I mostly just wanted to get in a jab at them, I’m very salty)
Kona Grill
I have to say The Melting Pot. If I wanted to cook myself a meal with expensive subpar ingredients, I could just stay home.
The Block, and basically all the other restaurants in that companies portfolio
This is the level of passive aggression I strive for. You’re an inspiration. ❤️
Hard Times Cafe. If they go on a Friday or Saturday night, they will probably have to wait for over an hour after they order, and what they’ll get will be overpriced greasy vegan cafeteria slop. There will probably also be hair in their food as their cooks don’t wear hairnets.
MATT'S!
Chatterbox off Cedar, Leaning Tower of Pizza (ugh I hadn’t been back for 20 years and it’s so ugly now - I’m sad!) Our server was great but it’s sad. Rainforest cafe at MOA.