Common Roots Cafe
2558 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55405
(612) 871-2360
This sweet little café nails the Uptown neighborhood. All are welcome here, from families to yuppies to hippies to punks. It’s also an easy menu to accommodate great meat-free eating. Try a beet-and-wheat-berry salad. The wheat berries are whole-wheat kernels that taste like a sorely unappreciated French lentil, and the salad contains enough vitamins, nutrients, and fiber to reboot even the filthiest booze-cigarette-Twinkie-Frito bender. Common Roots is far more than a coffee shop with benefits. It’s a three-meals-a-day, scratch-cooking cafe—a place to form a long-term relationship with. That means that for breakfast, depending on the season, you could have a basic egg scramble mixed with spinach, tomato, and cheese. Or fluffy cornmeal pancakes, studded with bright, juicy kernels and topped with whipped cream, fresh blueberries, and sliced peaches. For lunch the kitchen serves salads as simple as sliced heirloom tomatoes dressed with olive oil and fresh basil, or sandwiches that stack tastes like geologic strata: layers of sliced tomatoes and greens held together with melted cheddar cheese and cilantro-jalapeño aioli—quite an improvement on roast beef's typical horseradish-mayo slather.
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