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A traditional Hmong cross-stitch pattern meaning "home" runs through the whole room, which tells you exactly what Diane Moua is going for. The neighborhood restaurant inside Minneapolis' Food Building blends Hmong-American cooking with a serious pastry program, and the two halves genuinely need each other. Food & Wine named it Restaurant of the Year, and it landed on the New York Times Restaurant List. The sesame balls have their own fan club.

1. Food & Wine Restaurant of the Year
2. The 50 #50 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
3. The New York Times 2025 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review

Deep teal walls, hanging ferns, and paper lanterns turned a former strip club into a Southeast Asian street food restaurant that somehow feels like the right call even in a Minneapolis winter. The cocktails lean tropical, the menu ranges across Vietnam, Bali, and beyond, and the chef behind it all, Christina Nguyen, took the 2024 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest. Book on Resy; walk-ins are optimistic.

1. James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Best Chef: Midwest · Christina Nguyen
2. Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
3. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants

Named for the Thai refugee camp where chef Yia Vang was born, Vinai is a Hmong restaurant that brings a cuisine most Minneapolis diners have never properly encountered. The menu runs from Hill Tribe chicken to grilled lamb heart, and the hot sauces come from family recipes. The New York Times put it on their Restaurant List, and Bon Appétit named it among America's best new restaurants. Every dish has a story, and Vang is usually around to tell it.

1. Condé Nast Traveler The best new restaurants in the world
2. The New York Times 2025 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
3. Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America

1. James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
2. Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
3. Minnesota Monthly Best Restaurant · Best New Restaurants

1. Wine Enthusiast Forward 50 Restaurants
2. James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
3. Mpls St Paul The Best Restaurants in the Twin Cities

The focaccia is baked in-house, which explains why the bread alone prompts takeaway orders. Marty's is a neighborhood sandwich shop in Northeast Minneapolis that spent a couple of years as a pop-up before finding a permanent home, and the menu still has that carefully considered quality. Chicken salad, a BLT with local bacon, a salami and prosciutto situation with fennel slaw. The breakfast sandwich stacked with hash browns has developed its own following.

1. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants
2. Midwest Living Best Restaurants in Minneapolis
3. Mpls St Paul The Best Restaurants in the Twin Cities

1. AAA Three Diamonds
2. Minnesota Monthly Top 75 Restaurants

1. Midwest Living Best Restaurants in Minneapolis
2. Mpls St Paul Northern & Eastern European Gems · Best Bakeries of the Twin Cities

1. Artful Living The Best New Twin Cities Restaurants
2. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mike Brown, Bob Gerken, and James Winberg - Travail Collective

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

1. Eater The Best Coffee Shops in the Twin Cities

1. Mpls St Paul Northern & Eastern European Gems · Best Bakeries of the Twin Cities

1. Minnesota Monthly Best Design · Best New Restaurants
2. Artful Living The Best New Twin Cities Restaurants

1. Artful Living The Best New Twin Cities Restaurants

The tortillas here come from heirloom corn nixtamalized in-house, and they're the point, not the packaging. Oro by Nixta is a Mexican restaurant that grew from a tortilleria, and the menu still thinks that way: braised meats, seasonal produce, and a deep roster of moles and salsas all orbit the corn. It landed on The New York Times Restaurant List in 2024, which tracks for a place this quietly serious about a grain most kitchens treat as an afterthought.

1. The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List