The Places · United States
Minneapolis
Made By profiles 3 places in Minneapolis, spanning bar, hmong american, modern hmong fine dining — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Hmong American
Diane’s Place
Minneapolis, United States
Opened in April 2024 in Northeast Minneapolis, Diane's Place brings Hmong home cooking into a full-service restaurant format through the hands of a chef with serious pastry credentials. Coconut-pandan croissants and scallion Danishes anchor the baked goods program, while pan-fried bean thread noodles, steamed pork rolls, and housemade-noodle chicken soup make the case for staying through every course.
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02.Modern Hmong Fine Dining
Vinai
Minneapolis, United States
Named after the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand where Chef Yia Vang's parents met, Vinai is Minneapolis's most culturally anchored restaurant. The kitchen reframes Hmong family cooking through a modern lens, earning a place on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list in 2024. It sits at the intersection of Northeast Minneapolis's immigrant food history and the city's broader reckoning with whose cuisines get fine-dining treatment.
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03.Bar
Surly Brewing Co.
Minneapolis, United States
Surly Brewing Co. anchors Minneapolis's serious craft beer scene from its Southeast Minneapolis taproom at 520 Malcolm Ave SE. The brewery has been a reference point for the city's drinking culture since well before craft beer became a nationwide default, and its scale and program depth place it in a different tier from the taproom-as-afterthought model that followed in its wake.
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