Every entry on the site, sorted by where it actually lives. Useful when you are trying to plan a single afternoon, or when a friend says "I am staying in the North Loop, where do I go?"
Old breweries turned taprooms, working artist studios, the densest concentration of independent restaurants and music venues in the metro. The most-talked-about Twin Cities neighborhood of the last decade and the easiest to spend a whole weekend in. The Northeast Arts District runs along Jackson Street and the avenues off 13th and 17th, with Northrup King, Casket Arts, the California Building, and Solar Arts holding hundreds of working studios between them.
Warehouse-conversion restaurants, the city's densest run of designer-menswear shops, two destination breweries, and a riverfront that connects to the Stone Arch Bridge. The polished face of downtown Minneapolis.
The rest of St. Paul, including the East Side, Payne-Phalen, and other neighborhoods that did not slot neatly elsewhere on this site.
The CC Club, Bryant Lake Bowl, Mortimer's, Khâluna, and a stretch of Lyndale Avenue that still anchors a lot of Minneapolis nightlife. Less polished than it was, more interesting in some ways.
Lake Street, Powderhorn Park, the Mississippi gorge, the Juicy Lucy origin bars on Cedar. The neighborhoods that cover the largest and most diverse stretch of the city.
Hennepin Avenue theaters, the Foshay, the IDS Center, the Walker just to the west. A downtown still finding its shape, with some of the best music venues and hotels in the metro.
Lowertown's warehouse district, the Saint Paul Hotel, Mickey's Diner, Mears Park, the Palace Theatre. A downtown that still feels lived-in.
The west-metro suburbs ringing Lake Minnetonka. Cumin, Hello Pizza, the Hotel Landing, Bawarchi Biryanis. Worth the drive when you want a different pace.
The corridor of Nicollet Avenue south of downtown known as Eat Street, dense with restaurants from a dozen cuisines, plus the Black Forest Inn, the new Eat Street Crossing food hall, and Luna & The Bear.
A Southwest Minneapolis neighborhood with a tight Main-Street feel: Wild Rumpus, Birchbark Books, Sebastian Joe's, Saint Genevieve, Tilia, Martina. Walk the whole thing in 20 minutes and find a reason to come back.
A long stretch of St. Paul running from the Como Conservatory through the Midway. Fasika Ethiopian, the Turf Club, the Half Time Rec, Ax-Man Surplus, Lake Monster Brewing.
The Chain of Lakes neighborhoods. Bde Maka Ska, Lake of the Isles, Lake Harriet. Beach, bike paths, the Como-Harriet Streetcar, and one of the best Saturday-afternoon walks in any American city.
St. Paul's walkable south-of-Summit neighborhoods. The Nook, Quixotic Coffee, Boludo, and the kind of streets that make people seriously consider moving across the river.
The St. Paul neighborhood under the cathedral. Idun, Hyacinth, Nina's Coffee Cafe, all on Selby and Western. A favorite if you want to feel like you took a small vacation without leaving the metro.
St. Paul's long West Seventh corridor. Cossetta's, Cafe Astoria, Mucci's, plus the historic Schmidt Brewery complex.
The St. Paul Latino-anchored neighborhood across the river from downtown. El Burrito Mercado, Boca Chica, Panaderia La Nopalera. The most tightly-knit immigrant-built neighborhood in either city.