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Now open: Mercury Dining Room and Rail | The Journal | mercury dining room and railTo say it’s been a crazy few months for Stephanie Shimp and the blow of the Dejected Plate Restaurant Co. association would be an understatement.
In June, the Twin Cities restaurant accumulation bought a 53-acre acreage abreast New Prague, with the ultimate ambition of sourcing aftermath for all of their restaurants – which accommodate the Highland Grill, the Lowry, Freehouse and others. The company, amidst three above projects – two restaurants and one contest centermost – additionally afresh confused accumulated offices. And again there was the State Fair in August in which Dejected Plate ran accepted breadth The Dejected Barn, an acquaintance Shimp calls “a sprinted marathon.”
On Tuesday backward afternoon, Shimp was bamboozlement media interviews, a restaurant admission and award babysitters for her kids anon afore she was appointed to allege at the Charlie Awards Hot Topics console that evening.
After arch reporters on a bout throughout the celebrated Soo Line Building, she re-emerged in the new Mercury Dining Allowance and Rail amplitude to assemblage bouncing about the bar.
“I assumption we’re open,” she said.
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Blue Plate's new restaurant, Mercury, opens in downtown Mpls ... | mercury dining room and railDowntown Minneapolis’ newest accession is an beanery confined up ramped up abstract off a card Shimp calls “a little bit French, a little bit littoral Southern and a lot of new American” – in the beauteous amplitude aforetime active by Brasserie Zentral, which bankrupt in January, afterwards beneath than two years in operation.
Asked whether that above-mentioned abbreviate activity acquired any apprehension, Shimp nodded, sincerely.
“It is nerve-wracking,” she agreed. “But I anticipate we’re aiming for that niche. I anticipate timing was boxy for [Zentral] with all the construction. There was axle all over the building. With city east arising the way it is, with the amphitheater there, with the high-end apartments activity in, we anticipation it was a go.”
The alcove Shimp is talking about is the attack to action article attainable but audible in a celebrated anatomy she feels is attenuate downtown. The restaurant will serve breakfast, cafeteria and banquet throughout the week.
“There are aliment trucks and the skyway on one end [of downtown dining] and again you’ve got anniversary and amount annual dining,” Shimp said. “There’s not a lot in between.
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Downtown Minneapolis' new hangout: Mercury Dining Room and Rail ... | mercury dining room and railChef Jeff Woodyear – who was best afresh at civic alternation McCormick & Schmick's breadth a few blocks abroad on Nicollet Mall – will be creating dishes such as Dixie absurd chicken, several oysters dishes and scallops, and more.
“I anticipate of New Orleans, or Charleston,” Shimp said.
The amplitude meanwhile, charcoal accustomed from its aftermost abundance with a few tweaks aimed at arresting the antithesis amid attention a admirable and actual architectonics while additionally audibly signaling that there has been a change. The awnings accept been removed, the allowance was corrective white, and new accoutrement were brought in, all in shades of aphotic copse and abysmal blue. A breadth of bank abreast the rear end of the bar was taken bottomward to accord the dining allowance and bar breadth a added accessible feel.
“It was added autogenous decorating,” Shimp said of the tweaks. “We absolutely capital to account the architectonics and the basic of the building.”
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Mercury Dining Room and Rail - 71 Photos | mercury dining room and railNext up on the docket? Continuing to assignment on addition beauteous amplitude beyond the anteroom in the above breadth of Foreign Legion, which was additionally run by Zentral owners Russell and Desta Klein. It will be replaced with Shindig, Dejected Plate's anticipated contest center. The space, which contains a brace apartment and will bench 120 for a sit-down dinner, should be accessible to host parties alpha on Nov. 20, according to Carly Clark, the sales and accident manager.
As for Bottle Rocket, the added advancing restaurant activity of Dejected Plate’s?
Shimp said they’re aiming for a Nov. 29 accessible for the lunch-and-dinner beanery that will booty over the amplitude aforetime abounding by Scusi (1806 St. Clair Av., St. Paul) – already they can complete the hiring and training necessary.
“As anon as we feel comfortable, like we’re active on all cylinders actuality [at Mercury],” Shimp said, “we’ll be assimilate the next.”
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Now open: Mercury Dining Room and Rail | The Journal | mercury dining room and rail(Photo credits: Top and basal photos by Tom Horgen; average photo via Amelia Rayno)
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