March 2026
opened 2015
Saint Dinette
A decade of one of the best dining rooms in St. Paul. The Lowertown corner is going to feel different at dinner.
Restaurants close. So do bars, theaters, galleries, music venues, and bookstores. Some were open for decades and some for two years. All of them mattered to somebody. This is the running list, kept honestly, with no editorializing about why or what should have been.
A decade of one of the best dining rooms in St. Paul. The Lowertown corner is going to feel different at dinner.
The Schmidt Brewery campus had become an anchor. The food hall did not survive the post-pandemic shakeout.
Ann Kim's Northeast pizza-and-then-some flagship. The back-bar was one of the best rooms in the metro.
A small contemporary space that punched above its weight for thirteen years.
The longest continuously running professional theater in the United States. Eighty-four years.
Isaac Becker and Nancy St. Pierre's steakhouse-and-pizza place. The downstairs pizza counter alone was worth the trip.
A cocktail bar that helped define what the new Eat Street wave looked like. Luna & The Bear took over the space.
Twenty-six years of a vegetarian-leaning neighborhood cafe in Seward. The patio was a Saturday morning institution.
The alt-weekly that defined what writing about this metro could sound like. Forty-one years. The void it left is still being filled.