The 31 Best Places to Drink and Stay in Minneapolis

1. The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
2. James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Floor-to-ceiling windows frame either the Mississippi or a cosmopolitan sunset, depending on which side you land. This Four Seasons tower sits at the center of downtown Minneapolis, opening directly onto the Skyway, so the lobby pulls in a buzzing local crowd alongside hotel guests. Rooms lean into soft curves and a quiet Art Deco sensibility. The hotel holds a Michelin Key and is part of a group that took the Most Admired Hotel Group Award at the 50 Best.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Key
2. The 50 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award

1. AAA Three Diamonds
2. Esquire Martini · The Best Martinis in America
3. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants

The menu cites lumberjacks as inspiration, which sounds like a joke until the food arrives smelling of juniper and pickled elderberries. This is a French American neighborhood restaurant on Nicollet, where the chef works a distinctly Upper Midwestern palate, finding fall vegetables worthy of a special occasion without making the room feel like one. It won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant and landed on the New York Times Restaurant List. The pommes dauphine are, regulars will tell you, really just very good Tater Tots.

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best New Restaurant
3. Esquire Martini · The Best Martinis in America

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A skylighting system engineered to flood the lobby with natural light is a bold promise for a Minneapolis hotel, and the greenery and tall columns do sell the bit. Rooms lean contemporary with generous windows, and some look out over the skyline. Giulia handles Northern Italian and wood-fired pizza downstairs, while Spyhouse draws the neighborhood in for coffee and pastry. The fitness center runs Peloton bikes for guests who travel with ambitions.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

The timber beams running floor to ceiling were load-bearing long before this became a hotel, back when trains rolled through the basement hauling farm equipment across the Midwest. Now it's a boutique hotel in the Warehouse District, dressed in dusky mid-century rooms with industrial bones intact. The rooftop sauna is a sincere amenity in a Minneapolis winter, and Tullibee downstairs does locally sourced New American when you're ready to come in from the cold.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

A boutique hotel that started as a one-off and still carries that self-possessed confidence, the Lofton sits in Minneapolis's North Loop with the ease of a place that never had to prove anything to a parent brand. Rooms are stylish without chasing a trend, and the design earns its luxury quietly, the way good hotels used to before lobbies started looking like mood boards. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

The anchor here is the Ivy Tower, a ziggurat-style Art Deco landmark that the rest of the hotel wraps around, matching its clean lines and geometric flourishes throughout. It's a full-service luxury hotel in downtown Minneapolis, selected by the Michelin Guide, with a spa serious enough to draw locals, plus a restaurant and bar that visiting sports teams apparently don't complain about.

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Complimentary shoe shines, which most hotels quietly retired sometime around the flip phone, are still on offer here. This full-service downtown hotel leans into classic materials, marble bathrooms, leather sofas, and dark varnished hardwood, without feeling like a time capsule. Nightly turndown service rounds out the picture of a place that simply hasn't bothered cutting corners. Minneapolis gets underestimated by the coasts, and so, probably, does this hotel.

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Check-in happens at the bar, which tells you everything about what kind of hotel this is. The Moxy sits across from the stadium, close to the river, and draws a crowd that came to go out, not wind down. Rooms run toward LED mood lighting and local art rather than beige calm. The gym runs all night, the cocktails are mixed with some actual thought, and the whole thing skews cheerfully irreverent.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Sitting on the University of Minnesota campus rather than just near it, this boutique hotel leans into a lake-house aesthetic, which feels right for a state with ten thousand of them. The Graduate chain tailors each property to its city, and Minneapolis gets outdoorsy Americana with Gophers maroon woven in. The Beacon downstairs runs a gastropub menu with a quietly English accent, which is its own kind of personality.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Bunk beds with guitars on the wall set the tone at this Moxy in the heart of Uptown, where vintage shops and late-night pho joints are the neighbors. The hotel leans hard into its social zones, with the Vinyl Lounge serving craft cocktails and lobby spaces that feel more like someone's living room. Rooms are compact but smart, with big windows and good tech. The Michelin Guide includes it among its selected hotels.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

1. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants
2. Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central

1. Wine Enthusiast Top 50 New Restaurants
2. Minnesota Monthly Best Wine Bar · Best New Restaurants
3. Eater Best New Bar

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1. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants
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1. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants
2. Eater 38 Best Restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul
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1. AAA Approved
2. Mpls St Paul The Best Restaurants in the Twin Cities
3. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants
2. Eater 38 Best Restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul
3. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. AAA Approved
2. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants
2. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

1. Eater St. Paul’s Best Bars

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