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Re: Uptown General Topics & Development Map

Posted: April 13th, 2018, 12:30 pm
by KML_1981
This is awesome news! Korean fried chicken and other deliciousness. Also opening in Dinkytown!

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... lling.html

Re: Uptown General Topics & Development Map

Posted: April 13th, 2018, 12:38 pm
by Anondson
Whoa. This is awesome. Loved eating at Bonchon when I worked in the Bay Area last year.

Re: Uptown General Topics & Development Map

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 8:48 am
by MattW
Article is locked, where is it going?

Edit: Davanni's Pizza spot. Private browsing window FTW.

REALLY excited for this. Uptown is sneakily becoming a hotbed of good Asian restaurants

Re: Uptown General Topics & Development Map

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 8:52 am
by VacantLuxuries
The Davanni's spot

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 16th, 2018, 10:47 am
by seanrichardryan

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 16th, 2018, 11:03 am
by minntransplant
I'm surprised. It always seemed busy, especially during patio season. Great opportunity for someone else ...

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 19th, 2018, 11:09 am
by buzz
I heard that Culver's will be going in to the Dulono's space at 607 West Lake. Can anyone confirm this?

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 19th, 2018, 7:31 pm
by PhilmerPhil
It seems really unlikely. Being in the pedestrian oriented overlay, not only drive thrus, but also fast food are banned. But gosh be darn, I would love to have a Culver’s in walking distance.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 19th, 2018, 9:44 pm
by Minnehahaha
A ban on drive thrus seems pretty clear cut... but fast food? How is fast food even defined for such an ordinance?
I love having a Culver's in the Midway... it was the best recent addition to the neighborhood until the stadium came along.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 20th, 2018, 10:00 am
by thatchio
Per 520.160 - definitions:
Restaurant, fast food. An establishment whose design or principal method of operation includes five (5) or more of the following characteristics. In addition, any restaurant with a drive-through facility shall be considered a fast food restaurant.

(1) A permanent menu board is provided from which to select and order food. (2) Customers pay for food before consuming it. (3) A self-service condiment bar is provided. (4) Trash receptacles are provided for self-service bussing. (5) Furnishing plan indicates hard finished stationary seating arrangement. (6) Most main course food items are substantially prepared or cooked on premises and packaged in individual, nonreusable containers
With the above, I think they'd meet the definition without making changes to their business model.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 20th, 2018, 10:02 am
by EOst
If they really wanted, it probably wouldn't be hard to skirt 3 and 5 to avoid falling under the ban.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 20th, 2018, 10:27 am
by Silophant
Yeah, having condiments at the tables and, I guess, cushioned chairs instead of hard booths should be doable. Additionally, since their standard business model already includes servers bringing customer's food out to their tables, it wouldn't be too hard to remove the garbage cans and have them bus tables too, like Noodles and Co.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 20th, 2018, 10:50 am
by thatchio
Some of their restaurants, like the Richfield one, includes movable chairs. The only stationary seating are the booths.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 21st, 2018, 9:33 am
by BoredAgain
Why does our code ban fast food restaurants? I understand (and approve of) banning drive-throughs, but pedestrians need to eat quickly too.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 21st, 2018, 12:27 pm
by xandrex
Yeah, I actually really hate that our pedestrian overlay districts ban fast food. It just comes off as the worst sort of progressive "we know what's best for you." It's not like fast food needs a drive-thru (which is a legitimate thing to ban). I assume it also will prevent more than a few fast food places in emerging, walkable nodes from redeveloping.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 21st, 2018, 12:35 pm
by mamundsen
Case in point... most skyway food joints easily meet 4/6 of the items above. Depending on their furniture and packaging they could have 5 or all 6. I consider most to be fast casual, not fast food.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 22nd, 2018, 11:46 am
by xandrex
Another Not-Uptown-But-We-Don't-Have-A-LynLake-Business update:

Heyday is closing. Two new restaurants showing up in its place. http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/he ... /483351921

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 22nd, 2018, 11:50 am
by mplsmatt
I am a not-infrequent visitor to the bar side of Heyday, but it looks like some version of that will be preserved.

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 23rd, 2018, 10:26 pm
by seanrichardryan
Quite surprised it's been open this long/

Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News

Posted: May 23rd, 2018, 10:35 pm
by Didier
I've always heard really high praise for Heyday but location-wise it felt more like a neighborhood restaurant than somewhere exciting to go have an expensive meal. So a few times I considered it while looking for a nice dinner, but instead always ended up somewhere more "happening" like the North Loop.