Out on the Town

Depends of where you want go and what you’re up for.  By neighborhood:

Downtown

Clubs – The Lone Tree (80’s dance club), First Avenue (hard core rock), Barfly or Drink (20’s and 30’s crowd, current dance hits)

Live Music – The Fine Line, First Avenue, The Target Center (concerts), The Dakota (Jazz)

Pubs – The Local or Brit’s (our favorites, Brit's has lawn bowling!)

Restaurants – Café Havana (Cuban), Bombay Bistro (Indian), The Newsroom (cool bar/restaurant with great food), Sawatdee (Thai), Nami (Sushi), Bellanotte (Italian)

Breakfast - Hell's Kitchen

Entertainment – Movies at Block E, Shows at the Guthrie Theater, State/Orpheum/Pantages Theaters

Eat Street (Nicollet Ave south of Downtown w/ great ethnic restaurants)

Spendy – AZIA highly recommended

Middle of the Road – Jerusalem’s (Middle Eastern), Black Forest Inn (German), Rainbow (Chinese)

Cheap Eats – Quang (Vietnamese), Jasmine Deli (Vietnamese)

Uptown

Comedy – Comedy Sportz or  Brave New Workshop

Restaurants – Figlio (Italian), Chino Latino (variety), Chang Mai Thai, Tum Rup Thai, Fujiya (Japanese/sushi), Campiello (spendy Italian)

Favorites – Bryant-Lake Bowl (fun place for bowling, drinks, food)

Breakfast – Bryant-Lake Bowl, Sunnyside Café, French Meadows

Dive Bars – Liquor Lyles, Red Dragon

Movies – Low budget and foreign films at The Lagoon

Campus (Stadium village is on Washington Ave, Dinkytown is between University and 4th)

Restaurants – Loring Pasta Bar (Dinkytown), Village Wok (Stadium Village)

Bars – Sally’s (Stadium Village), Kitty Kat Club (Dinkytown)

Northeast

Bars – Tuggs (one of our favorites, great deck on the river with an awesome view of downtown), Nye’s Polynaise room, Jitters, Gasthoff’s

Restaurants – Pracna, Psycho Suzies (great pizza and drinks, nice deck in the summer)

Deli's - Kramarkzuk (Polish), Surdyks, Holyland (Middle Eastern)

50th and France (great little neighborhood with a theater and restaurants)

Theater – Low budget, foreign, and some mainstream films

Restaurants – Tejas (Tex-Mex), D’Amico’s, Broder’s Pasta Bar

St. Paul

Theaters - Ordway

Bars - O’Gara’s, Half Time Rec

Restaurants – Café Latte, Sydney’s, D’Amico and Sons, Pazzaluna, Fhima's (spendy but excellent Mediterranean), Pad Thai