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394 W. University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55103

651-290-2585

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BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): Vietnamese

Price: $
Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Business Dining

Reservations: Accepted
Parking: Lot Available

Description

The first million-dollar Vietnamese restaurant in Minnesota is a cultural event no matter how you cut it. So when you cross over the hand-carved wooden bridge at the entrance of Mai Village, and cross over the waterfall and koi pond, please feel free to let out a whistle of appreciation. It's hard to decide what's most amazing: The embroidered silk ceiling panels? The elaborate flower cut-outs in the hand-carved chairs? The fact that you can get a Vox on the rocks with your spring rolls? Who cares, you gotta get in here.

2007 | BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT

One recent Saturday night, a family of four tucked into a capacious booth at Mai Village and, over cream-cheese wontons for the small folk ($4.25) and limey bun salads topped with two types of sweet, fatty pork ($6.95 each), for the credit-card-wielders, they talked of Vietnam. And therefore of the two-headed dragons adorning the wooden bridge at the entrance and the koi shimmering beneath. Of the elaborate carvings on nearly every surface in the dining room--the windowsills, the... More »
2006 | BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT

Just inside Mai Village's exquisitely embroidered menus, before the lists of Vietnamese delicacies including sesame beef and steamed walleye in ginger-soy sauce, reads the sentence: "We are a family business concerned with your satisfaction." This tiny phrase says it all; from the wall of green bamboo stalks to your last course of seven-course beef, Mai Village's attention to detail is unmatched in Minnesota, and probably in Vietnam. Entering the restaurant, you traipse across a wooden... More »
2005 | BEST POWER LUNCH

Even before Mai Village's extraordinary multimillion-dollar makeover last year, the humble University Avenue Vietnamese restaurant was a favorite of political powerbrokers. In fact, we recall seeing Dean Barkley noshing there shortly after he returned from his eight-week stint as a U.S. senator in 2002. Back then, the appeal was mainly the scrumptious $6 lunch specials and vigilant service. But now that this longtime Frogtown staple has moved a few blocks closer to the Capitol and been... More »
2005 | BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT

By now we're all familiar with the fabulous Eat Street triad, Quang Restaurant, Pho Tau Bay, and Jasmine Deli. We've been singing their well-deserved praises for going on 10 years. However, this year the bar has been raised. Literally. With a full bar and high-art decor, Mai Village is the clear champion in '05. "Oh, great," you're probably thinking, "here goes City Pages voting for booze over broth, beauty over bun." Not true. Booze and beauty are just the icing on the cake, and it's a... More »

'Happy Cabaret' supports Central Corridor businesses with a free show

By Sheila Regan | Wed, May 16, 2012

Tyler Olsen hopes to bring some smiles -- and some patrons -- to University Avenue, which has been hurting for customers ever since construction began on the Central Corridor. On Friday, Olsen's Happy... More »
The Seventh Dimension

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, May 05, 2004

Mai Village 394 University Ave. St. Paul 651.290.2585 I know that I am given to excitability, and likewise given to feeling too much about the significance of architecture. I'll even admit that some days, I catch the barest glimpse of our m... More »

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

$16.95

Tam Ky Platter

$4.95

Eggrolls (cha Gio)

$8.95

Royal Eggrolls (cha Gio)

$4.95

Vegetarian Eggrolls (cha Giochay)

$4.50

Golden Fried Chicken Wings (canh Ga Chein Bo)

Soups

$4.95
$6.95

Wonton Soup (hoanh Tnanh)

$4.95
$5.95

Meatball (bo Vien)

$5.50
$6.95

Asparagus
with crab meat (sup mang cua)

$4.95
$5.95

Cream Of Corn
with crab meat (sup bap nau cua)

$7.95

Pho Ga

Fried Rice

$8.95

Pork Fried Rice (corn Chien Thit Heo)

$8.95

Chicken Fried Rice (com Chien Thit Ga)

$9.95

Shrimp Fried Rice (com Chien Tom)

$8.95

Beef Fried Rice (com Chien Bo)

$7.50

Vegetable Fried Rice (com Chien Chay)

Chow Mein Or Lomein

$9.95

Chicken (mi Xao Don Ga/hu Tieu Xao Ga)

$9.95

Beef (mi Xao Don Tom/hu Tieu Xao Bo)

$10.95

Shrimp (mi Xao Don Tom/hu Tieu Xao Tom)

$9.95

Pork (mi Xao Don Thit Heo/hu Tieu Xao Thit Heo)

$14.95

Seafood (mi Xao Don Exo Bien/hu Tieu Xai Exo Bien)

Seafood

$11.95

Shrimp With Mixed Vegetables (tom Xao Rau Thap Cam)

$11.95

Shrimp Woth Peapod (tom Xao Dau Hoa Lan)

$11.95

Shrimp With Broccoli (tom Xao Broccoli)

$14.95

Hot And Spicy Shrimp With Lemon Grass (tom Xao Xa)

$17.95

Mai Village Seafood Platter (bo Bien Eac Bieo)

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Mai Village

394 W. University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55103

651-290-2585

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2007 | BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT

2006 | BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT

2005 | BEST POWER LUNCH

2005 | BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT

'Happy Cabaret' supports Central Corridor businesses with a free show

By Sheila Regan | Wed, May 16, 2012

The Seventh Dimension

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl | Wed, May 05, 2004

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