Lunch Tue–Thu 11–1:30
Murray's
Downtown Minneapolis · 26 S 6th St, Minneapolis
The purpose-built deal lunch since 1946. Booths, hush, and a two-and-a-half-hour window that forces everyone to get to the point.
Lunch went away after the pandemic. Not metaphorically: we checked about seventy-five rooms that once served it, and twenty-six are gone for good, with most of the survivors open at four. What is left is worth knowing cold, because a good lunch meeting still does what it always did. Every entry below was verified from the restaurant’s own posted hours in September 2026. Hours move with staffing; when in doubt, the phone still works.
White tablecloths, real quiet, reservations that get honored. Book these when the lunch is the meeting.
The purpose-built deal lunch since 1946. Booths, hush, and a two-and-a-half-hour window that forces everyone to get to the point.
The Four Seasons room with a rotating prix-fixe lunch. The safest impress-a-client table in the metro, six days a week.
All-day steakhouse service means no window anxiety. When the lunch is the message, this is the room that sends it.
Still the definitive St. Paul business lunch: white tablecloths, deep booths, a view of Rice Park, and a kitchen that respects the hour.
The Nicollet Mall business-Italian classic, back after three dark years with a dedicated lunch service. Book the midweek slot.
The prettiest conversation-viable room in either city, and in season the garden is the best lunch table in Minnesota.
Sean Sherman’s kitchen moved into the Guthrie in June 2026 and tripled in size. The statement lunch: bring the guest you want to remember it.
Bookable, conversation-viable, and actually open. Where most of the metro’s working lunches happen now.
The North Loop default: big booths, all five weekdays, a menu the whole table can agree on, and nobody hovering for the table.
Pizza and pasta you can book: fast enough for an hour, casual enough for a team, good enough that nobody feels managed.
A lobster roll makes any meeting feel like a win. Spacious, reservable, seven days a week.
Jamie Malone’s Italian in the old Eastside space, holding down weekday lunch on a stretch that lost most of its rooms.
Polished burgers and a wine list on both sides of the river. Note the St. Paul room moved from Grand Avenue to Selby at Western.
The sleeper. Old-school red-sauce supper club with weekday-lunch-first hours and booths quiet enough to actually talk business.
Nooks inside, lawn bowling upstairs in season. Call ahead on event days; the lawn does private parties.
Continuous service and lunch pricing. Better for the relationship lunch than the note-taking one; hard to write while the meat keeps coming.
No tablecloths, sometimes no reservations. Let the food do the hosting.
The best food on this page. No reservations at any size, but at noon on a Tuesday the room is yours.
Counter-service and loud, which is the point. The casual meeting where the mostaccioli carries the conversation.
Real table service, no reservations. Arrive at 11:15 and the risk disappears; the cucina across the street handles the grab-and-go version.
A proper Jewish deli since 1949 with a sit-down room in back. Order the Reuben, skip the formality.
Cafeteria-line sausage and pierogi with room to spread out. Now closed Sunday and Monday, a quiet sign of the times.
The East Side’s welcoming booth-lined pub. The lunch meeting where everyone leaves in a better mood.
Cheese-counter sandwiches, a little bistro seating, and wine by the glass. The one-on-one lunch that feels like playing hooky.
Built for daylight: cafes that took over lunch’s job, laptop-friendly, done by three.
Restaurant service is back after the events-only pivot. Big tables, good light, the purpose-built laptop-and-conversation meeting.
Farm-to-table from their own Plato acres, daytime only, first-come. Get there before noon and take the window.
Bright, bustling, counter-order. The coffee-plus-lunch meeting with a bakery case working against your better judgment.
Almost certainly serving lunch, but their own sites would not confirm it on our check. One call saves the trip.
Weekday lunch by every recent listing; their site blocked our verification.
Lunch menu 11–4 per recent listings, and hours move on Wild game days.
The famous snugs are made for a quiet lunch; their site posts no hours.
Verified September 2026 from each restaurant’s own posted hours. Know a lunch room we missed — or one that just went dark? Tell us. We read every note.