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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Kaysen's twenty-seat counter tasting-menu experience in the North Loop, a minimalist room built to keep all focus on the food.
Former gas station turned buzzy arepa-and-tropical-cocktail joint. (Kingfield)
Refined Edomae sushi from a Tokyo-trained chef; the downstairs omakase is a splurge. (North Loop)
1954 Ukrainian deli and cafeteria of house-made sausage and pierogi. (Northeast)
Ann Kim's south Minneapolis neighborhood pizzeria turning out lightly charred wood-fired pies including the Korean barbecue and My Sha-Roni.
Thomas Boemer's beloved Southern spot for buttermilk fried chicken, collard greens, hush puppies, biscuits and banana cream pie.
Handmade pasta meets sushi in a genre-bending North Loop dining room.
Beloved small-batch scoop shop making its own ice cream since the 1940s. (Lyndale)
Northeast neighborhood wine bar and small-plates spot with a natural-leaning list and sharp, produce-forward seasonal cooking.
St. Paul3
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