![]() ![]() Wednesday through Saturday.Ī Slice of New York serves subs, calzones and pizza (whole and by the slice) to midnight Sunday through Thursday, and to 3 a.m. Market Bar-B-Que serves its pit-cooked brisket, ribs and chicken until midnight on Monday and Tuesday, and till 2 a.m. Hungry late-nighters set their GPS for Nicollet. “That’s the best reason to make art: to get free egg rolls.” + More - Less “Now when I go into My Huong Kitchen, she gives me free egg rolls,” said Lin with a laugh. ![]() It’s easy to spy copies hanging in several Eat Street restaurants. “It’s easy to get sucked in.” After she told her bosses at Greater Goods about the project, they encouraged her to organize eight images into a salable ($18) format (her other food- and drink-related work can be found at /shop/CoriLinArt). “Food is what my friends and I do, and there’s so much good food there, and such diversity,” she said. “Making lists with my food illustrations is a way to process my surroundings.” Armed with degrees in anthropology and studio art, the Chicago native landed in Minneapolis several years ago and not only worked on Eat Street, but lived there, too. “I organize and categorize my life as I experience it around me through art,” she said. ![]() “I’m lucky.” + More - Lessįor a literal picture of Eat Street, look to Cori Lin, who chronicles her favorite Nicollet Avenue fare in pen and watercolor. “I feel like I get to be one of those people who gets to do what they really love,” said Schoenefeld. “I thought, ‘I’ve always wanted to do a diner.’ So why not do both? The result: the modern-day diner (Nighthawks, a total gem) and Birdie. ![]() “But it had this extra 2,000 square feet that we didn’t know what to do with,” he said. A friend called about an available spot at 38th and Nicollet, and when Schoenefeld walked in, he knew he’d hit pay dirt. “I wanted it to be small, with very little overhead.” He got his wish. “It’s hard to make fine dining work,” said Schoenefeld, who also operates HauteDish in the North Loop. The restaurant’s genesis is similarly fascinating. Schoenefeld acts as house DJ, and all four articulate all kinds of cooking ins-and-outs as the tons-of-fun evening progresses. It’s a 12-course, produce-centric tasting menu format - so attuned to the season that a diner could set their watch by it - staged for just 14 prepaid ($100 per person) guests in the restaurant’s kitchen by Schoenefeld and three hardworking disciples. Nicollet’s most fascinating dining experience is surely Birdie, chef Landon Schoenefeld’s three-night-a-week culinary adventure. “As soon as the weather is in any way amenable, we are all ready to sit out there.” We are, too. “It’s exciting when it opens every spring,” said Christ. It has been wonderful to live with, all of this time.” A bookstore and barbershop were bulldozed and replaced by a gracious outdoor room that’s anchored by a pair of sculptures - by artists Charles Huntington and Bruce Thomas (“both friends and customers,” said Christ) - a fountain, a sheltering grapevine-covered arbor (“a lovely place to sit during a light rain,” said Christ) and a well-tended leafy landscape. “He spent a whole year with us, thinking how it could work,” said Joanne Christ. One of the city’s first outdoor dining venues, it was designed by Lyle Folkestad, who is now an architect in Ipswich, Mass., but at the time was an architecture student at the University of Minnesota. But none bests the granddaddy of them all, the highly civilized 70-seat beer garden that Black Forest Inn owners Erich and Joanne Christ installed in their landmark German restaurant in 1976. Nicollet is dotted with outdoor dining possibilities, from the well-appointed patios at Corner Table, Eat Street Social, Icehouse, Hola Arepa, Pat’s Tap and Wise Acre Eatery to the sidewalk tables outside Blackbird, Kyatchi and Nighthawks. ![]()
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