Food & Culture

Restaurant openings and closings in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Twin Cities

What’s open, what’s closed and what’s still to come in the Twin Cities and beyond.

By Sharyn Jackson,

Joy Summers and

Nicole Hvidsten

The Minnesota Star Tribune
July 31, 2024 at 7:10PM
Chef Yia Vang's new restaurant Vinai is now open in Minneapolis. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
about the writers

about the writers

Sharyn Jackson

Reporter

Sharyn Jackson is a features reporter covering the Twin Cities' vibrant food and drink scene.

See More

Joy Summers

Food and Drink Reporter

Joy Summers is a St. Paul-based food reporter who has been covering Twin Cities restaurants since 2010. She joined the Star Tribune in 2021. 

See More

Nicole Hvidsten

Taste Editor

Nicole Ploumen Hvidsten is the Star Tribune's senior Taste editor. In past journalistic lives she was a reporter, copy editor and designer — sometimes all at once — and has yet to find a cookbook she doesn't like.

See More

More from Food & Culture

See More

Stage & Arts

Businesses helped make Minnesota’s arts scene. Can they unmake it?

card image

For years, Twin Cities’ biggest arts organizations enjoyed “extraordinary” giving from homegrown corporations. Now, they’re grappling with steep declines: “We had more to lose.”

Eat & Drink

The 5 best things our food writers ate this week

Two eggs benedict with dill-flecked hollindaise over smoked salmon on english muffins. There's also a salad of fresh greens. on the plate and fresh fruit.

Inspired

100 years later, Phyllis Wheatley center continues to be a beacon for the Black community

A group of Black youths pose at Camp Katharine Parsons.