Downtown Minneapolis Lao, chef Ann Ahmed

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Chef Ann Ahmed’s Lao restaurant in Loring Park, the one that made the New York Times best-restaurants list and refuses to dial down the heat for a Minnesota palate. The larb, the sticky rice, the jeow: cooked the way they should be. Walk-in only, lunch and dinner, seven days.

Saves, regulars, and moments shape the Best of MPLS. Been-heres fill your Passport. Anonymous, never sold.

1610 Harmon Pl, Minneapolis Get directions www.gainoimpls.com $$

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