94 Twin Cities restaurants that closed in 2020
Pandemic, riots devastated the food-and-drink scene in the Twin Cities this year. December 28, 2020 9:50am
Saying goodbye to a beloved watering hole, a neighborhood café or a four-star restaurant is never easy. But in 2020, the pain kept coming as the pandemic brutalized the Twin Cities hospitality industry. Some restaurants, already hurting from dining restrictions, were swept up in the destruction that unfolded in the Minneapolis and St. Paul riots. Again and again, places that surprised and delighted us, that entertained and nourished us, served their last meals. Here are 94 of them nearly three times the number of closings we wrote about in 2019.
Unfathomable loss: Reflecting on Twin Cities restaurants we lost in 2020 From four-star restaurants to skyway favorites, the losses have taken a toll. December 18, 2020 1:24pm Text size Copy shortlink:
It was the end of April, we were barely a month into the pandemic and the news on the restaurant front was sobering.
More precisely, it was a bombshell: Eric Dayton, co-owner of the Bachelor Farmer, announced that his restaurant which had been idle since March 17, when Gov. Tim Walz had shut down all indoor dining was never going to reopen. I do not see a viable path forward, Dayton said in a statement.