Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Saint Paul from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Saint Paul
In Downtown, The St. Paul Grill is a classic American steakhouse and Meritage is a classic French brasserie, both with exceptional wine programs. Myriel in Highland Park serves a seasonal tasting menu and à la carte dishes, with a wine list and craft cocktails.
The St. Paul Grill in Downtown is a classic American steakhouse in the historic Saint Paul Hotel, with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. It serves prime steaks and fresh seafood and holds the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026).
Meritage in Downtown is a classic French brasserie with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led service. It offers Northern Hemisphere old-world selections, a tasting menu, and à la carte dining in the historic Hamm Building, with the intimate Médoc Room for private dining.
Myriel in Highland Park has a wine list and craft cocktails, with a seasonal tasting menu and à la carte dishes. The cooking is refined American with French-Minnesotan influences, using hyper-local ingredients in season and whole animals sourced from local farms.
For set menus and chef-driven pacing, these are the rooms in the guide that clearly support that style of dining.
joan's in the Park in Highland Park is a family-owned upscale bistro with an extensive wine list. The 40-seat white-tablecloth room serves a seasonal four-course prix fixe, cooked mainly in deck ovens from locally sourced ingredients, and the from-scratch menu changes with the season.
Tongue in Cheek in East Side is a casual fine-dining restaurant serving contemporary, chef-driven modern American fusion. The restaurant serves a tasting menu, small plates, and à la carte dishes. A wine list and craft cocktail flights are served in a vintage East Side storefront.
Luci Ancora in Highland is a family-owned creative Italian trattoria, open since 1997, with an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and beer. The kitchen uses sustainably sourced ingredients for fresh housemade pastas and nightly tasting menus.
Downtown is the neighbourhood for the exceptional wine programs in our guide. The St. Paul Grill and Meritage, both in Downtown, hold those programs. The Grill has an extensive wine list and the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Meritage has an extensive list, sommelier-led service, and Northern Hemisphere old-world selections.
Saint Paul has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, and no Michelin stars in total. There are no Michelin stars held by any of the restaurants included in our guide's citywide selection for Saint Paul.
Tasting menus in our guide are in Highland Park, Highland, East Side, and Downtown. Myriel in Highland Park serves a seasonal tasting menu. joan's in the Park, also in Highland Park, serves a seasonal four-course prix fixe. Luci Ancora in Highland serves nightly tasting menus and housemade pastas. Tongue in Cheek in East Side includes a tasting menu with small plates. Meritage in Downtown offers a tasting menu.
The St. Paul Grill in Downtown holds the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026). It is a classic American steakhouse in the historic Saint Paul Hotel, with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, prime steaks, fresh seafood, and craft cocktails.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Myriel in St. Paul's Mac-Groveland neighborhood translates a Scandinavian-inspired, forage-and-farm philosophy into a restrained tasting menu that earned chef Karyn Tomlinson the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest. Vintage china, muted neutrals, and whole-animal sourcing from local farms define the room and the plate in equal measure. It is among the more decorated destination-dining addresses in the Twin Cities.
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Joan's in the Park occupies a quiet corner of Saint Paul's Highland Park neighborhood, serving a four-course seasonal menu built on from-scratch cooking and predominantly organic sourcing. The 40-seat, white tablecloth format places it in a small tier of Twin Cities restaurants where the fixed menu changes with the season and ingredient provenance shapes every plate. For Saint Paul dining at this register, it rewards advance planning.
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On Randolph Avenue in Saint Paul's Mac-Groveland neighborhood, Mucci's Italian occupies the kind of warm, unhurried space that defines the city's neighborhood-restaurant culture. The kitchen draws on Italian-American tradition with a commitment to comfort over spectacle, making it a consistent address for residents who want a proper plate of pasta without the formality of a downtown dining room.
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The Nook occupies an interesting position in Beverly Hills dining, where neighborhood-scale intimacy sits alongside some of California's most high-profile restaurant addresses. With limited publicly available data, the full picture of its menu and format remains partial, but its address places it within a dense competitive set that rewards careful comparison before booking.
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The St. Paul Grill occupies a particular niche in the Twin Cities dining scene: a hotel dining room that operates with the confidence of a standalone institution. Located at 350 N Market St in Saint Paul, it draws on the architectural weight of its setting to anchor a classic American grill format that has remained a reference point for the city's downtown dining circuit.
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Bennett's Chop & Railhouse occupies a particular position in Saint Paul's meat-forward dining tradition, where the chop house format meets a neighborhood character distinct from the downtown core. Located on 7th Street West, it draws from a city increasingly attentive to where its proteins come from and how they are handled before they reach the plate. For visitors mapping Saint Paul's dining options, it represents the local end of a spectrum that runs from casual neighborhood grills to ambitious regional tables.
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Black Sea on Snelling Avenue brings the flavors of the Black Sea region to Saint Paul's Hamline-Midway neighborhood. Rooted in the culinary traditions of Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus, the restaurant occupies a dining corridor where immigrant-kitchen cooking has long shaped the city's food identity. It sits among Saint Paul's more destination-worthy neighborhood spots for those tracing the city's diverse table.
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Boca Chica serves Authentic Mexican & Tex-Mex in Saint Paul with a casual, conversational setup and craft cocktails for lunch, dinner, or brunch.
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Burger Dive on Bay Street occupies the food-forward neighborhood bar format in St. Paul's Mac-Groveland district, where the burger is the operational anchor and the bar wraps around it. Paul's brewery taprooms or steakhouse bars, trading in the consistency and directness that neighborhood regulars return to rather than destination-dining spectacle.
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Caffe Biaggio sits on University Avenue West in St Paul, a stretch that has long served as a corridor between the city's diverse neighbourhoods and its café culture. The address places it within reach of Midway's daily foot traffic, where the rhythm of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the table. For St Paul café-goers who treat a sitting as a ritual rather than a transaction, it occupies a familiar spot on the circuit.
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Citizen Saint Paul occupies a prominent address on Kellogg Boulevard in downtown Saint Paul, positioning it within the city's compact but competitive dining corridor. The property sits at the intersection of riverfront ambiance and urban accessibility, drawing comparisons to the quieter, more considered end of the Twin Cities dining spectrum rather than the high-volume Minneapolis scene across the river.
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Colossal Cafe on Grand Avenue sits within St Paul's most walkable dining corridor, where neighborhood breakfast and brunch culture runs deep. The cafe operates in a tradition that prizes generous portions, unhurried morning meals, and a local-first regulars crowd. It belongs to the same Grand Avenue ecosystem as Cafe Latte and Highland Grill, where the draw is consistency and neighborhood roots rather than culinary ambition for its own sake.
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Cossetta has anchored the West Seventh corridor of Saint Paul for over a century, operating as a multi-format Italian market, counter-service café, and sit-down dining room under one roof. The layered format, groceries, prepared foods, and table service occupying distinct zones, makes it a case study in how Italian-American food culture translates into everyday neighborhood life. It draws regulars from across the city for the kind of meal that prioritizes familiarity over novelty.
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Downtowner Woodfire Grill brings live-fire cooking to Saint Paul's downtown dining scene at 253 7th St W, where woodsmoke and open flame define the kitchen's identity. The format places it within a city-wide shift toward technique-forward, ingredient-driven cooking at the casual-to-mid-range register. It sits a short walk from the Xcel Energy Center and the historic West Seventh corridor.
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A Cleveland Avenue fixture in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood, Highland Grill has built its reputation on direct American comfort cooking with a menu structured around familiar formats executed with consistency. The room skews neighborhood-casual, drawing a broad cross-section of St. Paul residents who treat it as a reliable anchor rather than a destination occasion. It occupies a distinct lane in the city's dining mix.
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Keys Cafe on Raymond Avenue is one of St Paul's most enduring breakfast and brunch destinations, a neighborhood institution that has anchored the Union Park corridor for decades. The format is direct American diner with an emphasis on comfort, the kind of place regulars return to weekly rather than seasonally. For visitors building a picture of St Paul's cafe culture, it belongs on the same circuit as Cafe Latte and Colossal Cafe.
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Luci Ancora occupies a residential stretch of Randolph Avenue in Saint Paul's Mac-Groveland neighborhood, where the Italian-leaning dining tradition along this corridor has quietly sustained serious cooking for decades. The address at 2060 Randolph places it within walking distance of a tight cluster of independent restaurants that define the neighborhood's dining character, making it a reliable anchor for anyone planning an evening in this part of the city.
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Meritage occupies a prominent address in downtown Saint Paul at 410 St Peter St, positioning itself within the city's more formal dining tier. The restaurant draws on classical French bistro traditions in a Midwestern context that has few direct local peers. For visitors cross-referencing Saint Paul's higher-end dining options, Meritage represents the category's French-rooted anchor.
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On Selby Avenue in Saint Paul's Cathedral Hill neighborhood, Moscow on the Hill has anchored the city's Russian dining scene for decades, occupying a stretch that rewards those who know where to look. The restaurant brings Eastern European tradition to the upper Midwest in a format that sits comfortably between neighborhood staple and destination dining, a combination that remains genuinely rare in the Twin Cities.
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Parlour St. Paul occupies a West Seventh Street address that positions it squarely in one of Saint Paul's most active dining corridors. The menu architecture here does the editorial work: what's on the plate and how it's organized tells you more about the restaurant's ambitions than any single dish could alone. For readers mapping Saint Paul's mid-to-upper dining tier, Parlour is a reference point worth understanding.
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Restaurant Aubergine brings a French-Midwestern framework to St Paul, operating in a tier of American fine dining where classical technique and regional ingredient sourcing do meaningful work. The kitchen draws from the agricultural traditions of the Upper Midwest, translating them through a French lens that has become increasingly credible in mid-sized American cities. For St Paul diners accustomed to Minneapolis stealing the spotlight, Aubergine is a reason to stay on the east bank.
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The Saint Paul Hotel occupies a century-old address on Market Street in downtown St. Paul, where Beaux-Arts architecture and 254 rooms place it firmly in the tradition of grand Midwestern civic hotels. It sits at the quieter, more deliberate end of the Twin Cities hotel spectrum, a contrast to Minneapolis's newer hospitality stock, and a useful base for anyone engaging with the capital's arts and political institutions.
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Half Time Rec sits on Front Avenue in St Paul's North End, a neighborhood bar operating at the intersection of working-class Minnesota drinking culture and the city's broader sports-bar tradition. Concrete details on format, drink program, and pricing are limited in the public record, but its address places it within reach of St Paul's most characterful independent venues.
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Bang Brewing Company operates out of a compact taproom at 2320 Capp Rd in St Paul's Midway corridor, where the focus lands squarely on small-batch, independently produced beer. The format suits drinkers who want to sit with what's in the glass rather than navigate a sprawling drinks list. It holds a clear position in the city's independent brewing scene, away from the larger production facilities that now crowd the Twin Cities market.
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Brunson's Pub sits on Payne Avenue in St Paul's East Side, a stretch that has historically served working-class neighborhoods before the current wave of independent operators moved in. The bar fits the pattern of the street: direct, low-pretense, and oriented toward the regulars who treat it as a neighborhood anchor rather than a destination stop.
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Can Can Wonderland occupies a converted industrial space in St. Paul's Hamline-Midway neighborhood, pairing a full-service craft cocktail bar with a hand-built miniature golf course. The format sits in a small national tier of entertainment venues that treat the bar program with the same seriousness as the activity. It draws a broad age range and books ahead on weekends.
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A West Seventh Street fixture in St Paul's most neighborhood-rooted corridor, Shamrocks sits at 995 7th St W where Irish-American bar culture meets a menu built for regulars rather than tourists. The room reads as a working local's pub with the kind of draft selection and direct food program that earns loyalty through consistency rather than novelty. It belongs to a tier of St Paul bars where familiarity is the point.
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On University Avenue in St Paul's Midway corridor, The Dubliner Pub occupies the kind of position that Irish bars in American cities have historically held: a neighborhood anchor with a genuine local following rather than a tourist-facing imitation. The pub draws regulars from the surrounding residential and commercial stretch, operating as a reliable gathering point for the area's bar-going population.
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Paul, The Lexington sits at the intersection of neighborhood loyalty and classic American dining. Planning a visit means understanding what this corner of St. Paul has represented for decades, and what it continues to offer today.
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