Budget
Egg Roll King
$6.95 combo plates, great tasting fare, and out-of-this-world service: you can expect all three from this local mainstay. Step back in time to the Ming Dynasty and enjoy authentic far eastern cuisine. Try the house General Tso's or lo mein noodles. Drinks cost extra, but smiles are free.
Valley Diner
Stick-to-your-bones breakfasts all day, diner-style sandwiches and âGalaxieâ burgers. Cozy ambience in a busy part of town.
Lai Wah
Home-made sweet and sour sauce and cream cheese puffs.
Raising Caneâs
The most delectable chicken fingers in the state, maybe even the world. Even Andrew Zimmern thinks so (http://blogs.mspmag.com/c...).
| This guide uses the following price ranges for a typical meal for one, including soft drink: | |
| Budget | Under $10 |
| Mid-range | $10-25 |
| Splurge | Over $25 |
Phil's Fish & Chick Fry
Presents a menu of edible delights sure to tempt connoisseurs of fish and fowl alike.
Midrange
El Azteca
Order the #2 or the #46 or the #117 â either way, youâll end up with some sort of gargantuan combination of beans, meat and shredded lettuce. Mmm mmmm. Make sure to throw your money down for the mariachi band. Ole!
Kalli's Popcorn Shop
Family friendly shop specializing in fire roasted gourmet homemade, specialty, and flavored popcorn. Kalli's also has Flavor Burst soft serve ice cream, hard ice cream, candies, and decorative tins. Bring your kids here on a hot day when they wonât shut up.
Ramyâs
Greek, Italian, pizzas, subs, calzones â mama mia! Hurry up and try this place out â the last four eateries at this location all went under in less than a year.
Satay 2 Go
The only restaurant in Minnesota that serves okonomoyaki Japanese pizza. Famous Singaporean rice noodles or Malaysian chow kuai teui, laksa, and mee goring are delicious. Fresh Asian bakery inside â just try and resist the smells. Dress codeâ: anything goes.
Taste of Thaiyai
The food here is authentic. Spring rolls, masman curry, ââtom yumââ soup, ââlaab gaiââ, and lemongrass chicken soup â all rival the best Thai places downtown Minneapolis. Family owned.
El Toro
Mexicanâ¦doi. The margaritas are mucho bueno. Great salsa and delectable fish tacos. Wear a sombrero or wrestling mask and you may receive a free drink with your meal.
Von Hanson's
The flagship store. Von Hanson's is the staple neighborhood meat market. Things are done the old fashioned way here - no pre-packaging - just great service. Grab your pals, some long, hot franks and enjoy.
Top end
Enjoy!
An elegant yet relaxed atmosphere. A stylish, metropolitan bar designed to make happy hours even more so. A delicious ambience - whether you dine indoors or outside on the patio, enjoying the beautiful vistas of the neighboring concrete lake. Steaks, pasta and seafood dishes .
World Buffet
Despite its name, World Buffet offers only Chinese cuisine and chicken wing. Wonât put a dent in your wallet, but your toilet will be working overtime. Look for checkered pants â the best chef wears them.
Taste of Liang
The perfect place for the perfect date. Take your girl out here for a nice dinner. She'll look amazing. Some guy will try to hit on her, then he'll want to fight - so you grab him, throw him into the jukebox! Then the other ninja's got a knife, he comes at you, you grapple, you turn his knife on him. Blood on the dance floor. Your girl is scared now. You'll take her home, holding her in your arms. You reach in for a kiss... there's a rustle in the leaves, you flip her around, she gets a poison arrow right in her back. She was in on it the whole time... but you knew.
Kami
Stuck between both coasts, Minnesota is just a great location for fresh shellfish and finfish sushi - and Kami is the place to get it. If you want to impress your date with an expensive meal and stretch that double to third base, order the Kobe beef and fried rice, it is the bee's knees.
Apple Valley is one of the great restaurant towns in America. If you're looking for a specific kind of cuisine, this is your place. Shopping malls dotted across the city are great for soul food, barbeque, Asian - and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Other areas are more eclectic, like the Industrial District, where independent lunch carts make their way around the busy office parks.
If you're interested in celebrity chefs and unique culinary creations, there are many sports bars that would be happy to turn the television sets to the Food Network at your request. Downtown has several good upscale restaurants, but don't waste your time on tourist traps like Applebee's, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut Wing Street. In fact, you should never submit to standing in line; there are always equally good restaurants nearby. No matter what you enjoy, you'll have a chance to eat well in Apple Valley, and you won't need to spend a lot of money doing it; unless you want to, of course.
But while Apple Valley has a world class dining scene downtown, it is the low-end where it truly distinguishes itself. No other city on earth takes fast food so seriously; for those who don't concern themselves with calorie counting, Apple Valley is cheap, greasy heaven. One "culinary specialty" in particular deserves further description: the Apple Valley Sloppy Joe.
The Apple Valley Sloppy Joe is Apple Valley's most prominent contribution to world cuisine. It was modeled after an anonymous high school student who, bored with the standard sloppy joe being served at lunch, asked that even more slop be added to his joe. This unthinkable trend quickly caught on in the cafeteria after several lunch ladies noticed that the kids "liked 'em sloppy." Today, sloppy joes are served at almost all neighborhood establishments. If asked how you would like your joe done, the usual response is to say, "Sloppy, please." A double sloppy joe is often called a âsloppy seconds" by locals.