Business Description from the Web
Visiting Acadia Café, you`ll find a leisure bakery that serves up American cooking dominated by sandwiches, soups and salads. Expect the average entrée to cost under $8.
Located at the corner of Nicollet and Franklin in south Minneapolis, the Acadia features an eclectic mix of original music (No Cover Songs Allowed) and theater. The attached cafe offers a diverse range of specialty beers and an all Minnesota wine list, as well as gourmet appetizers, grilled and cold sandwiches, decadent desserts and a full espresso bar. Non-smoking.
NOTE: Cafe stays open past...
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At this laid-back coffeehouse, expect to find an ambitious live-music schedule (performed in an adjacent music room), a nicely retro setting and inexpensive fare that effortlessly swings from breakfast (burritos, oatmeal, waffles) to dinner (black-bean burger, smoked trout salad, aoili/three-cheese grilled sandwich). Beyond coffee, there's an impressive beer selection (including 24 tap choices,...
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Tips About This Business
Free parking is available in the Plymouth Church lot across the street after 6pm and on weekends at the Loring Nicollet lot.
Come in from 4pm to 7pm weekdays for $1 off glasses of wine and pints and bottles of beer. Pitchers and bottles of wine are $5 off.
Editorial Reviews from the web
In Short Recorded light jazz and blues fill this open, loft-style coffeehouse, where local artists display paintings and photography against exposed-brick walls. Students from the nearby arts school and young writers sit at metal tables to work out their next project while sipping lattes and munching on turkey sandwiches or breakfast burritos. At nights, local theater troups and...
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on April 21, 2009, (Edited March 15, 2006)
Other Reviews from the web
Acadia is located in the college-portion of Minneapolis. Obviously it is the students from the University of Minnesota that keeps them in business. But when I met a friend at Acadia for a lunch meeting, I was surprised to see the baby boomer crowd eating up this cafe. Not only that, but my meal came late, and the employee threw in a free root beer!
PROS: live music, good food (get the root...
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Stopping at Acadia after longer night in Minneapolis I was impressed with the fact that the servers catered to my friends knowing they would close in ten minutes. It was a very pleasent, clean, and calm atmosphere. I loved it. Try the chocolate cake!
PROS: Great food and drinks
CONS: prices
Acadia Cafe isn't your normal neighborhood cafe. Located on Franklin and Nicollet, this cafe offers a huge selection of tap beers and wine, as well as decent food at a moderately high price. But after you've downed a few taps that you can't find anywhere else, you'll just about pay anything for some reasonable food. Adjacent to the cafe is a theater with music, drama skits, etc every night of...
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