Downtown / Mill District Restaurants

My daughters took me out to Murray’s as a birthday splurge, and everything was excellent. The food, the drinks, the service, the ambiance, were all great! We each had a couple of their signature cocktails before and during the meal, shared a shrimp cocktail, each of us had a filet mignon for an entree, shared a caesar salad, au gratin potatoes, and a crab cake. We all 3 thought all of the drinks and food items were excellent. We’ve been to all of the top tier steakhouses in the Minneapolis and surrounding area, and Murray’s was as good or better than any of them. The prices are a bit staggering, as are all their competitors at this level of food quality and service, but for a special occasion, I don’t think you can do better than Murray’s. We’ll definitely be back occasionally.

Service was outstanding Food was delicious & beautifully presented Special effort was given to our anniversary by all staff Staff seems to truly believe what they do is very important

Strong & varied menu. Excellent salads & small plates, good pastas & some stellar entrees. Also, delicious lighter items like their turkey burger. Zelo also has a very good bar w/quality drinks at market prices. Our server Emmy was exceptional & professional. All in all a solid choice in Minnie, although tends to be loud making conversation strained at times. That's the only detraction. AAA+++

We chose to spend our anniversary dinner at Fogo once more. The food was delicious, as usual! The dining area is very clean and well kept - very nice dining experience. Also, as usual, our server didn't bring our check in a reasonable amount of time. 20 minutes after declining dessert and setting our dishes aside to be bussed there was still no sign of our bill, despite me placing our credit card on the table in clear view. My wife ended up asking a couple servers who were assigned to other tables for our check. Not sure if he thought we were going to tip lightly because we passed on the special appetizers and bottle service?? This happened last time we went to Fogo but we had waited even longer. The restaurant was not very busy compared to usual. What is the deal with the dismal state of the bathrooms? No hot or warm water at the taps and very messy. Frankly the inattentive service at the end of the meal repeating itself is causing me to question whether we will go back. Seems intentional and disrespectful... time will tell, I guess.

A great way to start the new year! Love the sausage bread with the small batch house-made peanut butter. And the lemon ricotta pancakes are a favorite. Lovely guitar vocalist played during our visit. Happy New Year!