Cavé Vin

Cave Vin is a neighborhood gem and one of the most consistently excellent restaurants in Minneapolis. We support our local restaurants and dine here on a regular basis. They offer a straight forward French menu with classic preparations. Everything on the menu is fabulous, but here are a few recommendations:

Bread and salted butter
Mussels appetizer (keep the broth for bread or frites later)
Beet and fennel salad
Steak and Frites
Pork

The wine list is targeted and exceptional. Ask for Jeffrey as waiter, he's wonderful.

Enjoy!

We'd eaten here a while ago and had an excellent experience, but given its limited notoriety we figured we might have just gotten lucky.  Well, we decided to eat here again the other night and were very glad to be proven wrong; this place is really, really good.  The reality is this place is just classic french food done well.  The french onion soup is superb.  I had the steak-frites and the steak was cooked to medium-rare perfection and the fries with the aioli are awesome.  They're thin, crispy and delicious and the aioli compliments them perfectly (make sure to spend the extra  buck to get it).  My wife had the seafood stew, and it really was a special dish.  It had a deep luscious flavor that was rich but not too much so.  It was amazing, and embodied everything that is good about food.  Nicely done, Cafe Vin -- we will be back.

My wife and I just randomly searched yelp while we were in the neighborhood and found our new favorite restaurant. The plates for the price are not skimpy and absolutely delicious. We just could not stop talking about it. I have been telling everyone I know and decided to do my first yelp post about this restaurant. The service was amazing for a walk-in and were helpful at every step. No delay in service at all, meaning every time I wanted something they were there to ask. I can not say more about this place, but just verifying all the good comments that people have posted.