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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Duluth1
Minneapolis7Town guide →
Nordic-inspired cafe inside the American Swedish Institute with a seasonal New Nordic menu and one of the city's best courtyard patios.
Sean Sherman's James Beard Best New Restaurant, a decolonized pre-contact menu. (Downtown)
A Mississippi Riverfront Minneapolis destination that gives the Great River Road a serious northern-city meal before the route turns bluff-country.
Long-running romantic prix-fixe destination with a seasonal Midwest menu. (Marcy-Holmes)
Gavin Kaysen's flagship in a 1906 horse stable, the Twin Cities' fine-dining benchmark. (North Loop)
Named for Scandinavian heritage cooking, this North Loop New Nordic restaurant highlights locally foraged and regional Upper Midwest ingredients.
Wood-fired, farm-to-table Scandinavian dining inside the Hewing Hotel. (North Loop)
Red Wing1
Saint Paul1
Winona1
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