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A well known Twin Cities restaurant owner is plans to open a breakfast and lunch spot in downtown Minneapolis in the same space that Hell’s Kitchen is plans to vacate this Sunday.
John McCarty, who owns a half-dozen restaurants around the Twin Cities, reached a deal this week to lease space for the restaurant with the partnership that owns the building, at 89 S. 10th St. Terms of the lease were undisclosed. McCarty said he plans to have the new restaurant open by Nov. 1 or sooner.
McCarty owns Grandview Grill, Louisiana Cafe and Paisano’s in St. Paul, Uptown Diner in Minneapolis and Woodbury Cafe.
McCarty didn’t say what the new restaurant would be called.
He said the new restaurant will share the same menu as some of the other stores and like the others, it won’t serve alcohol. The space won’t be heavily refurbished, but it will get a new sign, he said. The restaurant is already fully staffed, he said.
Hell’s Kitchen had been looking for a new home since March, partly because its existing space was to be affected by the redevelopment of the site at 10th St 24 hour payday advances. S. and Nicollet Mall.
That development hasn’t come together, but Hells Kitchen announced last month that it decided to move anyway - less than a block away into the former Rossi’s restaurant at Marquette and 10th.
The popular restaurant will have its last day in its current home on Sunday and plans to re-open Oct. 13, according to Hell’s Kitchen part-owner Cynthia Gerdes. Its new home is in the basement of the mixed use complex at 80 South 9th St.
“We’re beside ourselves decorating the new space,” she said. “This was just meant to be – its underground.”
The new location will have different areas, one that is more cheeky and louder and will show movies on weeknights and have live music on weekends, another that is formal and quiet. It will also have a bar and even a place for takeout food that’s going to be called Hell on Wheels, she said.
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