The Best Restaurants in St. Dan dan noodles with Sichuan pork, beef bulgogi egg sandwiches, poke bowls, and more to try this month. Welcome to the Eater Twin Cities heatmap, a collection of exciting new restaurants and pop-ups that have opened or re-opened in the last six months or so.
Minneapolis and St. Got a tip for Eater Twin Cities? Drop us a line at twincities eater. The daytime menu is robust, featuring a banh mi-esque chicken sandwich on croissant bread; Thai tea French toast; a Spam and nori croissant; and an Asian chicken noodle soup swimming with thick, springy, homemade rice noodles, among other dishes. Or swing by the pastry counter for a sweet pork and salted egg yolk croissant, or a tart calamansi raspberry Danish.
For dinner, expect warming duck and Thai eggplant stew; Hmong pulled pork infused with bright ginger; seafood red curry soup; and more. The restaurant features a raw menu chock full of seafood like hamachi tartare with squid ink vinaigrette and oysters on the half shell with three distinctive sauces.
For something heartier, look to the noodles and barbecue delights like miso-marinated flank steak and gochujang pork jowl. A post shared by Minari Restaurant minarirestaurant. Wildly popular pop-up Saturday Dumpling Co. The dumplings are accented with the diner's choice of sauce.
But there are other treats here, too; look for rice bowls topped with crispy sambal chicken, cumin fries with garlic chile aioli, and scallion pancake burritos. Grab a pack of frozen dumplings on your way out to keep the dumpling party going at home. Anthony Main neighborhood. Executive chef Josh Johnson shaped the menu with insight from acclaimed Myriel chef Karyn Tomlinson: Expect a subtly rustic, supper club-esque menu of chicken liver toast; polenta with roasted oyster mushrooms; and lake trout with braised fennel save room for banana toffee pudding.
