The restaurants we send people to in Northeast Minneapolis. Part of our full restaurants guide and the Northeast neighborhood guide.
The Northeast corner room at 13th and University, recently relaunched as Northeast Social Club. Full bar, a kitchen that takes the bar menu seriously, weekend brunch from 10. A small patio for the summer months. The kind of neighborhood spot you walk to from a show at the 331 Club next door.
Yia Vang’s long-awaited Northeast restaurant, named for the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand where his parents met. The food is Hmong by way of his family’s story: grilled and braised meats off the fire, sticky rice, and a wall of hot sauces. Vang was a 2026 James Beard Best Chef Midwest semifinalist, and the room finally gives Union Hmong Kitchen a permanent home. Order the whole-hog board if it’s on.
Pastry chef Diane Moua’s first solo restaurant, in the Food Building in Northeast, where her Hmong American cooking finally takes the lead instead of dessert. The all-day kitchen runs from breakfast through dinner, and the pastry program is, predictably, extraordinary. Food & Wine named it 2025 Restaurant of the Year, and Moua is a perennial James Beard name. Worth the table.
Danny Guerrero and Luis Puentes’ intimate Northeast room in the old Altburger space, where Mexican and Asian flavors meet across a fully gluten-free menu. Head chef Marco Luna runs tacos, sushi, and shared plates, and Guerrero, a Guadalajara bartender by trade, builds the cocktails around tequila and Japanese whisky. Low light, 68 seats, late hours on the weekend. The kind of date-night corner Northeast keeps minting.
The Central Avenue room that industry veterans Jeff Luten and Mike Hoolihan rebranded from Dutch Bar in late 2025, now a proper neighborhood cocktail and wine bar with a kitchen that takes its small plates seriously. The charcuterie board with marcona almonds and herb-buttered toast is the move, the wine list is curated, and the kitchen runs until 10. Open Tuesday through Saturday, late.
The pop-up darling from Mike Yuen and Tony Gao that finally landed a permanent home as the kitchen inside Steady Pour, the Northeast cocktail den on East Hennepin. The name is a Cantonese term for someone who builds their own identity while honoring their roots, which is exactly the food: playful Chinese American classics like mapo hotdish and the couples’ beef tartare, plated against one of the better bar programs in the neighborhood. Wednesday through Saturday.
The full-service evolution of Gustavo Romero and Kate Romero’s Nixta tortilleria, a James Beard-nominated room in the Northeast Arts District built entirely on their own nixtamalized masa. The tortillas and the masa run through everything, in original seasonal dishes that change with what is good. A small, focused kitchen open Wednesday through Saturday, and one of the most quietly serious Mexican rooms in the city.