Best road-trip restaurants in Minnesota
Start here: 70 route-useful dining stops in Minnesota, grouped by town and filtered by cuisine or price. This is the curated road-trip layer, not every restaurant in the state.
Updated 2026-07-01. Check current hours, reservations, and seasonal closures before you go.
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Prohibition-era speakeasy turned burger institution and the other Juicy Lucy originator. (Nokomis)
Cash-only Cedar Avenue dive since 1954 that claims to have invented the molten-cheese-filled burger it spells the Jucy Lucy.
The 1954 dive that claims to have invented the molten cheese-stuffed burger. (Longfellow)
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