Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby QuietBlue » December 7th, 2016, 1:08 pm

I believe so. I guess the thought is that one is an anomaly, but two is an epidemic?
Well, I haven't heard of too many fights going on outside the Dakota, but who knows, maybe we shouldn't underestimate those jazz cats.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » December 7th, 2016, 7:12 pm

"Not good" at 2am on Friday and Saturday nights as everyone is forced to leave at once.
Yes, I find when I've got to leave with others at the same time I get a penchant for shooting.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » December 7th, 2016, 7:18 pm

Q. What, what? A. In da butt.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby UrsusUrbanicus » December 8th, 2016, 12:25 am

"Not good" at 2am on Friday and Saturday nights as everyone is forced to leave at once.
Yes, I find when I've got to leave with others at the same time I get a penchant for shooting.
Was it possibly a reference to the seemingly random street closures on a network of one-ways near a freeway entrance? Back in my out-of-town days, I once got kicked all the way up to Dowling by one of these (on account of getting shunted unwillingly to 94 north). Sure, it'd be nuts to attribute a direct causal relationship to the violence, but anything that confuses and aggravates large numbers of people certainly can't *help*.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby 5th Ave Guy » December 8th, 2016, 8:19 am

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say most of the shootings don't happen because of random street closures.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » December 31st, 2016, 10:05 am

City of Mpls won't be 'Phamed' again.

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... se-of.html
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby Tyler » January 2nd, 2017, 12:01 pm

"Although the Phams’ long-term relationship has not resulted in a formal marriage, the Phams share an extremely close and dependent spousal-type familial and shared financial relationship."

What a weird-ass thing to be an a city report. Any decision justified by the city's determination that a relationship is "spousal-type" seems pretty freaking absurd.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby grrdanko » January 2nd, 2017, 12:36 pm

I know Tom Pham is a crook, but I've enjoyed the food at all of his restaurants.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby FISHMANPET » January 2nd, 2017, 1:01 pm

"Although the Phams’ long-term relationship has not resulted in a formal marriage, the Phams share an extremely close and dependent spousal-type familial and shared financial relationship."

What a weird-ass thing to be an a city report. Any decision justified by the city's determination that a relationship is "spousal-type" seems pretty freaking absurd.
The question at issue is if this application is actually an application for a unique business to be run by Heidi Pham, or if she is a front for a business that Thom will actually be running. In that regard it seems like a relevant finding. Also, the report calls it a "domestic partnership" which is actually a legal term in the city of Minneapolis. I believe it's a holdover from the days when same sex marriage wasn't legal and the housing code was getting in the way, but couples could register with the city as a domestic partnership and that at the very least qualified them as a "family" in terms of occupancy limits. Couples still do this rather than getting married for whatever reasons that are their own.

I wouldn't find it all strange if after one spouse of a married couple was denied a license, the other spouse requested an almost identical license claiming no business connection to the first spouse. In that same regard I don't find it at all strange that the same determination is made for a couple that isn't married but still operates as a married couple.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby Tyler » January 2nd, 2017, 1:57 pm

What is the procedure for the city to determine if an applicant has a "spousal-type" relationship with a previous licensee? Google search Startribune.com? Hire Sam Spade III for a thorough investigation?
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby VAStationDude » January 2nd, 2017, 5:01 pm

It's not that complicated. The couple have lived together since 1997, Mrs Pham has lived with him the entire time she's lived in U.S., they have four children together and she changed her name to match his. By any reasonable definition their relationship is of husband and wife even if they are not legally married.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » January 2nd, 2017, 10:44 pm

I thought Mr. Pham 'buttered his bread' on the other side.
uh
Like openly buttered all over town.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby TroyGBiv » January 3rd, 2017, 12:07 am

I thought Mr. Pham 'buttered his bread' on the other side.
uh
Like openly buttered all over town.
Lots of bread... lots of butter.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby TroyGBiv » January 3rd, 2017, 12:08 am

I thought Mr. Pham 'buttered his bread' on the other side.
uh
Like openly buttered all over town.
Lots of bread... lots of butter.
And a couple of Swedes.... but they call it Smorgasbord.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby Tyler » January 3rd, 2017, 10:19 am

It's not that complicated. The couple have lived together since 1997, Mrs Pham has lived with him the entire time she's lived in U.S., they have four children together and she changed her name to match his. By any reasonable definition their relationship is of husband and wife even if they are not legally married.
Not my point, duder.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby VAStationDude » January 3rd, 2017, 11:10 am

I was responding to fishmanpet not you.

The "report" you referenced is a determination by an administrative law hearing officer not city staff. It's pretty clear all determinations of fact are based the applicant's statements in license applications and hearing testimony. The application isn't being denied because of the relationship between the applicant and Mr Pham. It's being denied because he will have a substantial role in the business. Evidence of his involvement doesn't include his personal relationship to the applicant aside from their shared financial obligations.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby Silophant » January 18th, 2017, 12:33 pm

Zelo is closed for renovations until the 31st. Hope it doesn't mess with their spookily consistent patronage levels.
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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby DTSB » March 28th, 2017, 9:44 pm

"McKinney Roe owner taking over former Masa space on Nicollet Mall"

http://m.startribune.com/mckinney-roe-o ... on=variety

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby grant1simons2 » March 28th, 2017, 10:29 pm

Southern style wine dive... huh.

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Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News

Postby amiller92 » March 31st, 2017, 12:55 pm

Apparently I missed the news that Marin closed and is in the process of becoming something else. Mercy, I think it was.


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