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Cafe Levain
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4762 Chicago Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55407

612-823-7111 

http://www.cafelevain.com  

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4762 Chicago Ave. S. Minneapolis MN 55407

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  • American, Contemporary, French
    Sun 10:30am-2:30pm, Sun, Tue-Thu 5pm-9pm, Fri-Sat 5pm-10pm
    $$$ $$, $$$
  • MasterCard, Visa
    Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly
    Brunch, Dinner
  • Beer/Wine
    Not Accepted
    Lot Available, Street
Description

Reborn from the ashes of former fine-dining standard-bearer Restaurant Levain, Café Levain is a T-shirt casual, safe and sound little French-oriented bistro, with the emphasis on safe and sound. The French onion soup is the best in town--beefy as a steak, comforting as a quilt, and smothered with top-quality cheese, well browned. The roast chicken boasts a skin as crispy as bacon, and is craveable, good, and plain. The menu is remarkably brief, just a handful of entrees, a very few appetizers, and a dessert or three to pair with the wonderful wine list, but if you're in the mood for inexpensive comfort foods cooked with skill and grace and served with good wine, Café Levain is the safest bet in town.








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  • Signature Dish: Cafe Levain\'s chef Adam Vickerman

    Signature Dish: Cafe Levain's chef Adam Vickerman

    By Keane Amdahl | Tue, February 19, 2013

    In the search for the Twin Cities' best culinary creations, we often come across dishes that stop us mid-bite and force us to reflect on the level of thought and artistry chefs put into their work. T... More »

  • Cafe Levain\'s Adam Vickerman shares his AMAZING chilled pea soup [RECIPE]

    Cafe Levain's Adam Vickerman shares his AMAZING chilled pea soup [RECIPE]

    By Joy Summers | Wed, June 13, 2012

    Each week City Page's Side Dish column dips a little deeper into the menus of some of our favorite Twin Cities haunts. This week we rhapsodized about a particular soup served at Cafe Levain in south M... More »

  • Safe and Sound

    Safe and Sound

    By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, August 22, 2007

    Café Levain 4762 Chicago Ave. S, Minneapolis612.823.7111www.restaurantlevain.com Now that we no longer have roads in the Twin Cities, picking restaurants has gotten a little trickier. Oh, I know that technically we only lost one road, but I... More »

  • Levain Unleavened

    Levain Unleavened

    By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, February 18, 2004

    Levain 4762 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis 612.823.7111 Success is a bedeviling concept. The things that constitute a successful day for a newly divorced mom with the flu, a surgeon in a field hospital in Afghanistan, or a field mouse are all... More »

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  • KimG30
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    | Minneapolis, MN | 5 Reviews

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    | Mon, June 2, 2008

    Bravo to Levain for abandoning the too fancy/too expensive Manhattan restaurant experiment in favor of a casual neighborhood cafe. But, it's a cut above most other Minneapolis cafes in the food and wine. Great discovery last time: a Spanish white wine called Basa.

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  • 2008 | BEST NEIGHBORHOOD CAFÉ--MINNEAPOLIS

    Restaurant Levain launched as an ambitious culinary exploration of foie-gras torchon and butter-poached lobster, but the problem was, it was a little too pricey for most to visit if it wasn't a special occasion. The restaurant closed last year and reopened soon after as a more casual café: It's the same cozy space, with butter-colored walls and dark wood wainscoting, but the revamped menu features French bistro, slow-cooked, home-style fare. This incarnation of Levain is all about... More »

  • 2006 | BEST STAR CHEF EXPERIENCE IN A RESTAURANT

    Five years ago you could go into most of our top chef-driven restaurants like Alma, Zander, or La Belle Vie and see the chef of note hurling pans behind the line just like folk. Nowadays not only are open kitchens falling from fashion, but you really have to work hard to find a lot of big-name chefs in their own restaurants--they've got chefs de cuisine for that, thank you very much. Not so at Restaurant Levain! Long renowned as one of the most talented chefs to ever stuff a quail or... More »

  • 2005 | BEST RESTAURANT IN SPITE OF ITSELF

    In the hands of Chef Steven Brown, a seared scallop wearing a gossamer cloak of sea urchin--the sparkly fellow standing sturdily upon a cloud of black cuttlefish ink-tinged rice--becomes not so much an experience of food, but an experience of immortality, as the intensity of the sea and the sweetness of its bounty spread through your soul in a sweetly singing oceanic harmony. Yet the dining experience at Restaurant Levain is usually the opposite of harmonic. Every seat seems to be smack dab... More »

  • 2004 | BEST RESTAURANT WHEN SOMEONE ELSE IS PAYING

    Restaurant Levain. Opened with big plans--five-star cooking in the neighborhood. But you know how it goes with the best-laid plans of mice and Levain... Started life with a big-name maître d', but lost him before the paint on the sign out front had time to dry. Built its reputation on a big-name chef, paired a big-name sous--but that was yesterday, now it seems so far away. They left. Opened with no wine license at all--call it five-star dining, Mormon-style. Swapped that out for some... More »

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Dinner Menu
Starters
$15.00
Foie Gras Torchon
winter fruit compote, brioche
$8.00
Onion Soup
beef broth, fontina, crouton, onion rings
$9.00
Chicken Soup
chicken confit, torchio, kale, mirepoix, dijon, chive
$9.00
Chicory Salad
endive, radicchio, frisée, pickled cherry,walnut vinaigrette, grana padano
$9.00
Winter Salad
brussels sprouts, parsnip, gorgonzola fondue, wilted greens, pistachio, dried fruit
$9.00
Mussels
plum tomato, chili oil, garlic, shallot, herbs, baguette, saffron aïoli
Entrées
$23.00
Braised Beef Short Ribs
potato purée, brussels sprouts, charred kale, braising jus
$12.00
Levain Burger
short rib ragout, cheddar, frites
$18.00
Roast Chicken
polenta, stewed mushrooms, charred kale, maple vinaigrette, brown butter, chive
$32.00
Steak Frites
ribeye, frites, truffled pecorino fondue
$26.00
Roasted Monkfish
french lentil purée, roasted carrots, turnips, brown butter, lemon, chicory salad
$14.00
Vegetable Stew
stewed mushrooms, carrot, cippolini onion, lacinato kale, pickled mustard seed crème fraîche, brioche breadcrumbs, cornichons
Side Dishes
small - 3 for $12, large - 3 for $20
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Brussels Sprouts
shallot, garlic, chive, lemon
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Stewed Mushrooms
shallot, garlic, parsley, lemon
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Frites
kosher salt, fondue
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Polenta
cheddar, chive
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Roasted Carrots & Cippolini Onions
grana padano, herbs
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Charred Kale
evoo, chili flake, lemon
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Cauliflower
saffron aïoli, breadcrumbs, herbs
Small $5.00
Large $8.00
Potato Purée
cream, butter, chive
Dessert
$7.00
Panna Cotta
rosemary, candied pastry, pecans, chocolate
$7.00
Profiteroles
chocolate, orange, caramel, granola
$7.00
Pear “tarte Tatin”
gorgonzola dolce fondue, black pepper ice cream
$7.00
Passion Fruit Mousse
coconut cookie, whipped cream
Dessert - Ice Creams
choice of 3 ice creams/sorbets for $7
 
Vanilla
 
Chocolate
 
Orange
 
Passion Fruit
 
Black Peppercorn
Dessert - Sorbet
choice of 3 ice creams/sorbets for $7
 
Pear
 
Cherry

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