The hits keep coming for Minneapolis, as more restaurants are calling it quits:
In Minneapolis alone, a number of long-standing institutions have called it quits. Rock Bottom Brewery, Seven Steakhouse and Sushi, Williams Pub and Peanut Bar, Amore Uptown and Stella’s Fish Cafe to name a few.
Some of them date back to long before I moved to the Cities – in this case, Asia Chow Mein in Columbia Heights:
“It was very hard to decide that,” Ng said. “At first, I was going to have my son take over, but now with so many obstacles and so many unknowns in this industry, I just hate for him to take over and he will be struggling like we have the last three years.”
Winnie said what served as a mold for success the prior generation, is one that no longer fits.
“The American dream maybe is for our parents,” Winnie said. “Because they think, immigrate here, they will make a better living, a better education for the kids. But I really don’t know what the outcome would be if we were to stay. I still have cousins and people back home and they’re doing really good too, you know?”
Ng said she is grateful for the sacrifice that her and Tim’s parents made. She recognizes the difficulty of moving to America, without speaking English, with the hopes of providing a better future for their children. She admired that they took the time to learn English, to navigate American cities, to learn how to walk in the snow, to learn to love eating American food.
In completely unrelated news, Downtown merchants and other leaders are trying to figure out what to do to revive downtown…
…which is back,and also never went away and has no crime or vacancy problem, and if you think it does you’re a rube from Waconia or Maple Grove.
I call this denial syndrome the ‘Charles Manson’ syndrome…
For example…..Charles Manson never tried to kill ME, so I don’t believe he’s a killer.
Wonderful defense mechanism.
“Ng reflected on the days when they did have dine-in service, that she loved working up front to talk to the regulars. She said surprisingly many people have ordered the same exact thing for fifty years.”
Well geez, if your customers want dine-in service, why did you end it? Why change the business model that worked so well?
Oh, Covid? You got Covid so you couldn’t carry trays to tables, that’s why you switched to take-out-only? No. Tim Walz FORCED you to switch. His lockdown orders closed your business for weeks on end, and later orders authorized the petty bureaucrats in the local health department to insist on six feet of separation between customers which wasn’t possible with dine-in service. The fact that six feet was a made-up number with no basis in medical research was entirely ignored. He had to destroy your business or else WE ALL WERE GOING TO DIE.
Covid didn’t kill these businesses. Walz killed them. Tell the truth, KARE.
John,
I’m firmly convinced that the 6 foot distance rule, was invented to cheat in the election. How many instances of DemoCommie poll workers not let Republican workers or judges review ballots? In fact, DemoCommies called the cops, that 90% wanted to defund, to remove Republicans that pressed the laws.
But according to visitors from ND, the Red Rabbit is full and going strong.
Wait. Is this like Musical Chairs?
I’ve heard the downtown pasta is super duper, if you don’t mind the wait.
I don’t mind waiting in line behind strangers from NoDak if the pasta is good. I just wish they would learn that dirty overalls are not appropriate attire for fine dining.
Apparently all the restauranteurs opening new establishments in Minneapolis should’ve consulted SiTD prior to opening. 😂
there are no restauranteurs opening new establishments in minneapolis
prove me wrong
You get style points for being concise—prove me wrong….
Apparently all the restauranteurs opening new establishments in Minneapolis should’ve consulted SiTD prior to opening.
I don’t understand. Can you explain? Please. And why are you crying?
Naw. It was an entirely defensible, accurate, and really minor observation. And you whining about it says far more about you than me.
He’s rubber and your glue, jdm. Whatever you hit him with sticks to you.
Is this the same Woolly that claimed Paul Pelosi was have a love spat with his violent attacker?
I formed my opinion of Musk following the Thai Cave Rescue. Anyone who accuses someone who disagrees with one of his “beautiful” ideas of child sex abuse has no moral compass.
And seeing the actual conditions that the rescuers faced — where a submarine would have been totally impractical — pours scorn on his apparent genius.
And his actions at Twitter reinforce that view — closing down accounts that disagree with him while proclaiming free speech? When he proclaims free speech he means his speech.
Unhinged would be a more accurate diagnosis than his reputation as a contrarian.
Naw. It was an entirely defensible, accurate, and really minor observation. And you whining about it says far more about you than me
Hmm. I requested, civilly, that you explain what you meant by a comment I found unclear (and why you’re crying). That’s it. I whined?
And what does “it” say about me?
I’ve noted this before, will probably note it again; when I took my daughter downtown for a kids’ piano concert in 2017, one of the things I noticed was that even then, there was pretty much nothing going on between the convention center and the river except for government and a few office buildings. COVID and the collapse of policing in the city only made this go faster, really.
Minneapolis is well on the way to becoming a cold Detroit or Gary. Fixing the problem is going to require a recognition that the current path is not sustainable–probably at the state legislature, taking away a certain degree of autonomy from the city.
Say rAT?
I heard there’s a pile of new dining venues sprouting up in Downtown Minneapolis… haute cuisine ShAKs are growing like kudzu up there, I guess.
Too many to choose from.
So, as a rodent of style and taste, and a noted
liargourmand, which would you recommend?Quick rAT! Go cut and paste some shit from Yelp, and help us out.
“Is this the same Woolly that claimed Paul Pelosi was have a love spat with his violent attacker?”
No, rAT. It was me that observed Pelosi was had turned a GrindR session into a hammer fight.
Can you plagiarize a counter argument? Nah…you can’t.
No cheese for you.
Emery on December 15, 2022 at 12:19 pm said:
Is this the same Woolly that claimed Paul Pelosi was have a love spat with his violent attacker?
Is this the same Emery who simply makes things up as he goes along?
Yep.
Woolly and Musk ate what we old fogeys call a self-licking ice cream cone. They are all transmit and no receive — absolutely not self-conscious.
This kind are intellectually lazy. They love to hear themselves speak (or tweet/post comment) but do not have the patience to actually do the research to see if their brilliant sound bytes are really brilliant,
But, I suppose, being the world’s second richest human does bestow some privilege. And so it ever was.
“but do not have the patience to actually do the research to see if their brilliant sound bytes are really brilliant”
What, like finding links to all the new downtown restaurants you claimed were opening? Too lazy like that? Or simply lying and unwilling to admit it?
not sure your comment proves the point you wanted to make
The blather level of Emery’s comments is very high today. I literally can’t tell what he is talking about. Musk? I’m making brilliant soundbites by writing words? And now he’s talking about Bezos?
I think he had a stroke.
Hey troll, body cam footage shows that Pelosi did NOT run screaming out of the house as he would have if he were under attack. Instead he calmly let the police inside.
Sure, just like anyone would do if they were being attacked with a hammer by a stranger.
UMMP, I know that Musk won’t answer me, but you might. One of the Emerys claims you ate a “self-licking ice cream cone”. How did it taste? Did it make you “self-conscious”?
rAT!
Where is that list of hot new restaurants in Minneapolis?
C’mon, you miserable, lying cocksucker. Let’s have it. I’m hongry.
This is a typical Minneapolis story:
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1603527459550502914
Guy should have been in jail, ended up dead instead.
If you want to know how judges can do this, release violent offenders with no time served, don’t look at their ethnicity or who appointed them, look at who their peers are. A judge named “Raymondo Aligado” does not consider inner city blacks or hispanics to be his peers. His peers are the parents of his kids classmates, and he sends his kids to a private school.
Hey, that new restaurant, Ties, opened up in downtown Minneapolis this year. They received lots of publicity and favorable reviews for celebrating the positive, inclusive diversity and strength of downtown.
Oh, wait – Ties closed last month.