Downtown is garbage. A friend talked me into hitting Sneaky Pete's and The Imperial Room... Wack. Area is full of bozos, dimwitted suburbanites, and borderline stripper bum bytches. Much prefer the Uptown and Whittier areas for bars and food. Also, every damn cop in the city is posted up downtown - on horseback, on bikes, on foot, in cars. shyt looks like a dystopic police state. Also blown away by the sheer number of motorized wheelchairs in this city.
No fat shaming here. We keep em mobile
Yeah downtown is gonna be a collection of all of Minnesotas worst. The drunks who are just excited to stay out late, the suburbanites who finally feel safe downtown even though it aint dangerous to begin with. Minneapolis gets over cautious whenever we have events like this. City is terrified of getting any kind of bad press. If you've never been over Northeast, you should check that out. A little more low key and good food but some of them Polacks are territorial over there
Just in terms of straight food, La Brasa. Creole style food and you get big servings. That's one of my favorite spots
Downtown area is slowly getting better. I think the Greenline will help. I try to avoid it, but its not horrible. 1st Ave (and its affiliates) is still one of my favorite fun places to go as far as a venue/club/etc in the country not to mention its where prince shot purple rain.
Bar La Grassa, Butcher and the Boar , Bachelor farmer and 112 eatery in north loop/downtown are great.
Uptown is going through crazy amounts of change, especially the Lake/Hennepin area. Not a fan of the yuppie bars in chino latino, cafeteria or stella's but the rooftop on a summer night
The lyndale area of uptown is pretty nice, muddy waters/bulldog/lyndale tap are decent bars that are right next to each other and french meadow is great for breakfast-lunch.
Kramarczuk, Nye's, Gasthof (had a nazi scare doe), Hazels, in NE
The happy gnome, blue door, groveland, in St paul.
I think I'm forgetting a lot, but the city is not bad, especially on a summer night.
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that hamilton round at yankee stadium