8th Street Grill & Taphouse

Excellent food and attentive service! We visited 8th Street Grill for dinner in Aug 2024 during our flight layover in Minneapolis. Based on reviews and location we expected an ok American fair at best. However, the restaurant surprised us by an excellent food quality, absolutely amazing salmon baked on cedar plank, and our waitress Christine with whom we had an interesting conversation about literature! This visit turned into an experience rather than just a food stop. Thank you, Christine!We certainly recommend 8th Street Grill if you are in the area!Appetizers Cheese Curds - fresh and yummy Cesar salad Entrees Cedar Plank Salmon - this was a masterpiece! It was fresh, juicy, and literally melting in the mouth! It was more like a Chilean seabass with no hint of dryness. The spices and brown sugar glaze gave it an amazing delicate flavor. This was certainly one of the best salmons I ever had! Cajun Seared Salmon - this one was delicious as well and salmon was fresh, juicy, and flavorful Chicken Sandwich with Pepper Jack and Avocado - excellent. My son finished it in no time. Chicken Tenders - good quality chicken tenders according to my daughter :)

I met up some coworkers for a drink at a bar/grill in downtown Minneapolis. We used to come to the bars often for happy hour qhen I worked in downtown. We saw their featured desserts and tried the ube cheesecake. That was delicious! I wished I could've ordered 2 more to take home. This bar is pretty big, long with 2 rooms. You'll see the bar at the entrance but go behind the bar to the dining rooms. Our server was great, she was a friend of a friend.

Went to find a late night place to eat after arriving in town and this place surely hit the spot. Our waitress was quick to take our orders and food came out pretty quick. It wasn't too busy even though a game had just ended. You can really go wrong with burgers and fries though!

Christine and Lisa were great! Thank you for taking such great care of us. Foosld was amazing. Shots not terrible. lol

Great place to go for lunch if you are working downtown! I had the buffalo chicken wrap with waffle fries and it was delicious. Service was great too!

We tried out the 8th street grill and Taphouse because it was across the street from our hotel. They have outdoor seating but we didn't sit there since it was 10 degrees outside.Lots of seating inside. They have a bar area and then booths and table throughout a larger space. They have about 25 beers on tap - plus your standard Miller, bud, and coors light. The server was great! We started with the cheese curds that were pretty good. I got the parks burger that came with fries, I subbed for waffle fries and it came with a spiced Mayo that was really good! The parks burger was cheese, bacon, and bbq sauce. My husband for the Reuben, he said the bread was toasted perfectly and it was very flavorful. Two beers, an appetizer, and 2 meals, our total was $80.

Five stars just for the treatment we received. Grandson needed to use the bathroom so I had a beer. I cashed out immediately as I told the bartender it seemed my parking spot expired at four (it was 3:55) He said it did and he kept an eye for the tow truck-they are very serious on the time as the parking lane has to open up for rush hour. All well that ends well, put stop, cold beer (great tap by the way-ton of choices). Would love to spend more time there.

Another great spot for post-work drinks downtown! Easy to access off Marquette Ave and lots of bar and grill food options!

The service and food were lacking. I ordered my burger medium rare, and it was well, well done. Server never came back to check on me. For over $16 for a burger, I expect more! Definitely don't recommend this place, and I will not be back!!

No wait, a table by the window, quick attention and follow-up checks throughout the meal AND the best Caesar salad with salmon I ever had (and I order it a lot ) So good we ate there twice during our 5 days in Minneapolis.