[Archived] Uptown Retail & Restaurant News 2012-17

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » December 15th, 2014, 8:35 pm

I ate there a few weeks ago for the first time. Food was heavy and the joint was empty. I commented then that the decor looked temporary and the build-out cheap, as if they didn't want to put in much money or they were just holding the space for the next concept.
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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby blobs » December 15th, 2014, 9:30 pm

Dang, I liked the Boneyard. Good food though prices seemed a bit high in general.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby PhilmerPhil » December 15th, 2014, 9:39 pm

Since Minneapolisite no longer posts here to say it, I'll say it for him: Broneyard

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby WHS » December 18th, 2014, 9:25 pm

I went to Boneyard one time, and the food was not only unappealing and overpriced but, as a southerner, an irritating bastardization of everything I grew up eating. It was branding gone mad -- like they thought if they used enough down-home adjectives on their menu they wouldn't have to learn what country ham or a buttermilk biscuit actually is. Honestly, it felt like everything that was wrong with the Minneapolis restaurant scene in one convenient location; it's hard to see how any replacement wouldn't be an improvement.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » December 18th, 2014, 10:42 pm

Kaskaid douchery at its best.
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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby BoredAgain » December 19th, 2014, 10:53 am

Kaskaid douchery at its best.
I didn't even know that Boneyard was a Kaskaid restaurant. I never went and now I'm glad I didn't.

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Re: Cause Spirits and Soundbar (3001 Lyndale Ave S)

Postby twincitizen » December 29th, 2014, 10:39 am

Some 4+ months later, Cause has obviously not reopened. Now they're being evicted: http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2 ... iction.php

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » January 6th, 2015, 12:10 pm

Wuollet's has closed its Hennepin Avenue location.
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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby David Greene » January 6th, 2015, 1:03 pm

Kaskaid douchery at its best.
I didn't even know that Boneyard was a Kaskaid restaurant. I never went and now I'm glad I didn't.
Apparently the new Salsa a la Salsa is also a Kaskaid operation.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby David Greene » January 6th, 2015, 1:07 pm

Wuollet's has closed its Hennepin Avenue location.
It was only a matter of time. Business was very slow. I was a regular, it being the only place I know of where I can get a cherry mocha.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby seanrichardryan » January 6th, 2015, 8:14 pm

Maybe Rinata could move their dining room over to the Wuollet's space. <IT WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER>
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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby Nick » January 6th, 2015, 10:36 pm

There's a Dunkin' Donuts franchising seminar in Edina on the 22nd if anyone has like $1,000,000 hanging around:

http://franchisingevents.dunkinbrands.c ... S&Brand=DD
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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby ECtransplant » January 6th, 2015, 11:41 pm

Why is this in the uptown thread? Please tell me it's because uptown is getting a DD.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby Nick » January 7th, 2015, 12:00 am

Seemed jokingly relevant to the Wuollet's closure, but I will take 100% responsibility for a made up rumor about an Uptown Dunkin' Donuts if we want to start one.
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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby ECtransplant » January 7th, 2015, 12:01 am

It was and it's just late and I've apparently had one too many to make the connection. There is now a non zero probability of local media running with that rumor though.

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Hennepin and lagoon

Postby 4-d » January 11th, 2015, 1:36 pm

Is there a thread going for the project at that intersection? I've been watching this building get taken apart for a while now and I'm just wondering if anybody knows what the whole project consists of.
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Re: Hennepin and lagoon

Postby mamundsen » January 11th, 2015, 5:07 pm

I think it was talked about in the Uptown Restaurant thread. It is supposed to be another Cowboy Jacks.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby Wedgeguy » January 12th, 2015, 11:23 am

My GUESS is that they are either waiting for better weather to reconstruct or they have ran into permit issues that are delaying things. Again this is only my guess.

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby David Greene » January 12th, 2015, 11:25 am

Didn't get going before the snow flew. :)

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Re: Uptown Restaurant News

Postby Wedgeguy » January 12th, 2015, 11:30 am

Didn't get going before the snow flew. :)
More like before the mercury ran out the bottom of the thermometer. Hydraulics don't work very well at 0 and below.


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