Eat Street Walking Tour

A gastronomic guide to Nicollet Avenue’s ethnic eateries.

Walk down Nicollet Avenue - Minneapolis’s beloved Eat Street - between Grant Street and Lake Street, and you can see history unfolding ,with markers of the city’s past, present and future standing shoulder to shoulder. For more than half a century, Eat Street has been one of the Twin Cities’ culinary hot zones, a place where immigrant entrepreneurs took their first step up the ladder. Today the range of ethnic cuisines includes Chinese, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, West African, German, Malaysian, Mexican, Somali and Vietnamese.