Best restaurant in So. Minneapolis?

Question

Visiting soon, and would love to find a great local place to eat. Please, no chains, unless they're truly local -- If I wanted to eat at the Olive Garden, I'd stay home!

Answer 1

Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

Answer 2

Minneapolis is actually a great food town.  Unfortunately, if by Southern Minneapolis you mean the area around the airport, well, that's just not the best place for good restaurants.  It's like the airport neighborhood of any city--full of chain restaurants and fast food joints.  

However, one of the best local foods of Minnesota is a terrific fish called walleye.   If you are staying at a hotel, get a recommendation from them for the best place in the area to go for that. If you like fish at all, you won't go wrong.   Good luck!!

ADDED LATER:  I saw your additional comment asking for a specific suggestion on where to get walleye.  "The" place to go for walleye is probably Tavern on Grand, but it is in St. Paul, about a 15-20 minute drive from the airport area that I assume you will be in.  When Russian premier Gorbachev came to the Twin Cities area, Tavern on Grand is where they took him.  http://www.tavernongrand.com/

On the other hand, asking where to get walleye in the Twin Cities is sort of like asking where to get steak in Chicago or New York.  Everyone has his own opinion about which one is the best.  On thinking some more about what is reasonably convenient to your location, you might try Axel's River Grille, which is in Mendota, east of the airport; it's probably a 5-10 minute drive.  http://www.axelsbonfire.com/axels/Locati...

For a different experience, I have had good walleye (not the best, but good) at the Carosel Restaurant, atop the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown St. Paul.  But what mostly attracts people there is the setting:  the restaurant revolves, giving you a panaoramic view of the city.  (You might want to go before dark to get the best view.)  It's fun. http://www.discoverourtown.com/MN/local-...

But as I said, there are as many opinions about the best place to get walleye as there are, well, walleye. ;-)   So you can get neighborhood recommendations from whatever hotel you are staying at.  Just don't let them talk you into trying lutefisk.  Fortunately, very few restaurants have lutefisk on the menu.  Minnesotans consider it a Christmas season delicacy.  Sheesh. (And no, you really do NOT want to know what lutefisk is.  Trust me.)

Answer 3

Go across town and try the St.Paul grill in the Saint Paul hotel downtown.

Answer 4

Don't go to Minneapolis its way to cold you will regret, it is a icky dirty town!