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Lowertown Guide
Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars
 BLACK DOG COFFEE AND WINE BAR
The hub of Lowertown. Good local and organic food, pizza, coffees, teas, beer, and wine. Nightly happy hour from 4-7pm. Specials on Monday.
Gallery shows, music events, and various local discussion groups. See their website for the calendar. Free wireless Internet. Great place for business meetings.
Location: 308 Prince Street, corner of Prince/4th and Broadway.
Website: www.blackdogstpaul.com
THE BULLDOG
New to Lowertown. Happy Hour: Mon-Thu 3pm-6pm & 11pm-1am, Fri 3p-6pm (No Happy Hour Fri pm, Sat or Sun). $1 off Pints, Wells and Domestic Bottles 1/2 Price Appetizers. 22’ Shuffleboard, 2 Dart Boards, 2008 Golden Tee Live and 10 Flat Screen TV’s.
Great beer selection. Completely unnecessary bouncers. Apparently this is the bar that everyone who supports no other venues in Lowertown comes to. Full of suits after the end of the work day and full of out of downtowners later in the evening. Food is okay but not worth the price or hype.
Location: 237 6th St E., corner of 6th and Wacouta.
Website: www.thebulldoglowertown.com
CHRISTOS GREEK RESTAURANT
Good food, excellent lunch buffet, good happy hour appetizer specials, set in a gigantic atrium that was the old Union Depot train station's ticket hall. Christos has served classic Greek fare for 13 years and offers dishes from all of Greece, and specialties from the island of Cyprus. Traditional dishes are balanced with contemporary items, and a wide array of appetizers and platters makes it easy to sample the cuisine or dine family-style. The wine list now features products from five Greek wineries in addition to domestic selections. Affordable.
Location: 214 Fourth Street East, corner of Wacouta or Sibley and 4th.
Website: www.christos.com
GOLDEN'S DELI
Great sandwiches, service window open in the summer, right at the Saint Paul Farmers' Market.
Location: 275 E. Fourth St., corner of 4th and Wall.
Website: None.
GOPHER BAR
Affordable dive bar with world class Coney Island Hot Dogs that beat the average, actual Coney Island Hot Dog hands down.
Rarely open late, cash only.
The staff don't hate you, they hate everyone.
Location: 241 7th St E, Corner of Wacouta and 8th.
Website: None
HAT TRICK LOUNGE
Bar with affordable bar food and live music.
Location: 134 East 5th Street, Corner of 5th and Robert.
Website: www.robincommunications.com
INNUENDO
Gay bar spin-off from downtown Saint Paul's Rumours, with excellent daily drink specials. Couches. Innuendo's website lists a ton of weekly events, from disco and karaoke nights, to bear nights! Emphasis on friendly, welcoming atmosphere obvious throughout the site, and the bar staff reflect this both in their warm greetings and helpful service.
Haven't tried the food yet but it did look good and very reasonable on the wallet. Quesadillas, sandwiches, all affordably priced.
Location: 213 East 4th Street, across from the Union Depot.
Website: www.rumours-stpaul.com
JIMMY JOHNS
Very good sandwiches of all kinds. Delivery available, but it's slow!
Location: 523 Jackson Street, at 10th Street.
Website: www.jimmyjohns.com
KELLY'S DEPOT BAR
Affordable dive bar-restaurant with 4 large TV screens playing quiz shows and sports during the day, and news and sports at night. Mid-range pub food but cheap. Alcohol also cheap.
Artists and postal workers are the main clientele. Patio nice in summer. New heated winter patio tent helps the smokers survive outside while -- ironically -- killing themselves. Open til 2am.
Location: 241 Kellogg Blvd E., Corner of Kellogg and Wacouta.
Website: None.
LOTO LIFETIME CAFE
Yuppie bar/restaurant created by David Fhima, whose other yuppie restaurant in downtown Saint Paul has already failed. The food is good, if you want to order a chicken dish and have it served with just potatoes and no vegetables. Hell yes, it'll taste great, it's just all a bit foo foo and $15 chicken is $15 chicken.
If the restaurant downtown -- where there's actually a central business district --failed, this one's days are numbered. Totally wrong neighborhood for this place. Fhima got a million bucks from the city to open up this joint, which totally ruined the former main entrance to Galtier Plaza.
Five visitors to the Rake's website gave them a combined rating of Ambience: 8.4, Food: 6.6, Service: 5.6 on a scale of 1 (worst) - 10 (best). Definitely very kind ambience ratings for this soulless, clinical, modernist, undeserved leech of public funds.
Location: 380 Jackson Street. Former lobby of Galtier Plaza on Mear's Park. Technically, it's on Sibley Street between 5th and 6th.
Website: www.lo-to.com (non functioning)
SAWATDEE
Sawatdee Saint Paul was the first Sawatdee as well as the first authentic Thai restaurant in the Twin Cities, opening in 1980. Originally located in Lowertown, "the old Sawatdee" closed down a few years ago but reopened in early 2008 in a different location. Food is excellent. Delivery available.
Location: 486 Robert Street, on 9th Street.
Website: www.sawatdee.com
SEÑOR WONG RESTAURANT & COCKTAIL LOUNGE
Opened on February 4th, 2008, this is a Chinese-Mexican hybrid. Very nice ambience, friendly staff, good happy hour deals, excellent menu, televisions. See informative website for more details.
Location: 111 Kellogg Blvd, on Robert Street.
Website: www.senorwong.com
STATION 4
18+ hardcore and punk venue with often surly staff, no menu but useful frozen pizza and lunch sandwich deals, drink prices reasonable, occasional good bands, excellent burlesque show on alternate Wednesdays. Ambience: black.
Location: 201 East 4th Street, across from the Union Depot.
Website: www.station-4.com
TANPOPO NOODLE SHOP
 Great sushi and noodles, light wood and minimalist decor without being snobby, pretty nice to dine in, and the killer...cooking classes currently available!
Location: 308 Prince Street (4th Street), next to the Black Dog Cafe.
Website: www.tanpoporestaurant.com
Last Revised: 5 February 2009 by Nigel Parry
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