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SW Minneapolis Patch Oct 2012
Posted in Southwest Minneapolis Patch on September 18th, 2012.
“Best Bar” and “Southwest Minneapolis” are not phrases commonly associated with each other.
Broadly speaking, we’re a pretty family-oriented part of town. Anyone walking around the area on a Friday night would be hard-pressed to confuse it with Uptown. Yet, two local establishments just won Minnesota Monthly’s nod for “Best Bar” in their October issue, which hits the newsstands this week.
George and the Dragon at 50th and Bryant was the magazine’s pick for best pub, beating out the likes of Anchor Fish in Northeast and Chips and Merlin’s Rest in Longfellow. While reviewer Tim Gihring found some points lacking compared to the competition—the fish and chips, for example—the eatery’s burgeoning status as a neighborhood anchor was, they said, what a true pub should be.
