About Spoon and Stable
Gavin Kaysen returned to Minneapolis in 2014 after years in New York under Daniel Boulud and a decade representing the United States at the Bocuse d'Or. He had options — New York, Chicago, a dozen cities that would have welcomed him. He chose Minneapolis, and Spoon and Stable is the reason that choice now seems prescient rather than sentimental.
The building at 211 N 1st Street was constructed in 1906 as a horse stable. The architecture shaped the restaurant's identity: exposed brick, warm wood, high ceilings, and a 75-seat dining room organised around an oriental rug like a well-maintained family home. Designers Shea — Minneapolis's definitive restaurant architects — understood that the space needed to feel earned rather than designed. They succeeded.
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