Sea Salt Eatery returns to full menu after storm closure, fire

The Minnehaha Park institution temporarily pulled several of its seafood offerings as it worked to fix damage.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
July 18, 2024 at 12:52AM
Lunch time is rush time at the Sea Salt Eatery in Minnehaha Park.
Sea Salt Eatery at Minnehaha Falls Regional Park was temporarily closed after it lost power last week and is on a limited menu after a fire broke out in the pavilion Monday. (Steve Rice/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Calamari, French fries and fried shrimp po’boys were back on the menu Wednesday evening at Sea Salt Eatery in south Minneapolis, after the restaurant had to limit its offerings due to fire and following storm-related closures that affected several other Twin Cities restaurants.

Sea Salt staffers on Tuesday said the Minnehaha Regional Park restaurant was on a “limited menu” until repairs. The new sandwich shop in the pavilion was not affected.

“We look forward to sunshine & normalcy,” store owners posted on social media.

But a Sea Salt official said Wednesday that the restaurant had recovered its full menu.

Power outages late last week temporarily closed several Minnehaha Regional Park facilities, including the Sea Salt pavilion, as a result of intense thunderstorms that affected about 3,200 Xcel Energy customers.

The fire at Sea Salt broke out Monday and forced the eatery to limit its menu to sandwiches and beverages. The shop reopened Tuesday but removed the following items from its menu: Calamari, clam fries and French fries; calamari and fried scallop tacos; fried shrimp, fried oyster and fried catfish baskets; fried shrimp, fried oyster, fried crawfish and fried catfish po’boys.

Those items now are back, a company spokesperson said.

Star Tribune staff writer Zoë Jackson contributed to this report.

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