Breakfast – Kinda Different

We have a new contender for regular breakfast place in the neighborhood: the Grandview Grill (note: mute speakers if you don’t like sites that play music when clicked). It doesn’t serve up Wi-Fi but the signal from the nearby Whole Foods is strong.

The best part: this breakfast-lunch place is in the same restaurant group as our hands-down favorite at 50^th and France across the river in Edina (Minneapolis). Same menu. Even the waitress is one I recognize from Edina.

[Update 2019-03-06] Our waitress has moved on from the Grandview. The restaurant group sold the 50^th & France space (a former Perkins) to another group. That was the restaurant at which we were having lunch in the spring of 2015 when we looked online and saw that the St. Paul property we were keeping an eye on was having an open house. We jumped in the car and went right over. Our first visit to what was to become our forever home (as the rescue pet community likes to say).

We don’t get to the Grandview Grill all that often now. They never did install Wi-Fi. Whole Foods moved out years ago, taking their Wi-Fi with them; Subway has a signal but it’s rarely usable. For some reason our computers won’t connect. When we go to Grandview we use Verizon’s mobile hotspot — a recourse we normally reserve for road trips.