Broder's Restaurant: Edina, MN
Broder's restaurant is located just minutes from 50th & France in Edina. So, if you can hunker your boyfriend into taking a short trip to Anthropologie before making it to this restaurant (a later dinner is more romantic anyways, plus you beat the traffic) I'm guaranteeing you'll have a positively exquisite evening.
The service is warm and bubbly, the crowd is artsy and casual and the food is really going to be sing-song in your mouth. Broder's even offers half-bottles of wine in pretty little carafes with stemless wine glasses. These little things are what make the simple foundation- good food, natural settings- of this restaurant shine. Out on the patio they offer small plates like olives and rosemary roasted almonds- then you can pick on the menu a few cold plates and a few warm plates to share with your other half.
If you're lucky like me last night, you'll be surrounded by happy families with little babies in buggies on all 3 sides of your table, and you'll be transformed into this complete ga ga state of euphoria that you just won't be able to imagine a better way to your night.
