Best Holiday Private Party Spaces

  MINNEAPOLIS, MN - 12/12/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

Celebrating over 30 years of success, the iconic French Meadow Bakery & Café is pleased to now offer guests the option to reserve their entire Bluestem Bar portion of the restaurant and their private event room, The Nord Tasting Room, for upcoming holiday events and private parties year round.

What to Expect – Bluestem Bar

A sophisticated, intimate and warm extension of French Meadow Bakery & Café, Bluestem Bar offers the ideal space for your upcoming holiday events and parties. Organically inspired, our handcrafted aqua blue tiled bar, rich tree accents, and gold-hued walls transport you to another world, offering the same organic, local, gluten-free, vegan and traditional menu options you have come to trust and love. Bluestem Bar seats and serves up to 100 persons, and 150 person maximum for standing cocktail events.  

What to Expect – Nord Tasting Room

Our Nord Tasting Room is one of the most beautiful and ambient spaces available for gatherings in the Minneapolis area.  This pleasing space embraces floor to ceiling exposed brick walls and showcases enormous 2 all glass 18’ garage doors that open onto our enchanting and lush string lighted outdoor patio. The Nord Tasting Room accommodates 30 for sit down dinners, business meetings, showers, groom/bride dinners and more. Our room accommodates 50 for stand up wine tastings with appetizers passed or served buffet style.  The Nord Tasting Room is the perfect setting for wine and scotch tasting dinners as well. During the warm months, 60-80 people can be accommodated when reserving the Nord Tasting Room as well as the patio.

The Menu

Their experienced event planners look forward to creating and customizing a menu to meet your guest sensibilities. Chef George is dedicated to creating menus that please all tastes from the “foodie” to individuals with dietary restrictions. Their farm to table kitchen prepares all foods from scratch with care, purpose, and attention to detail. Their 16 local tap beers, artisan cocktails, and sommelier-curated craft wine list is a key component 

and finishing touch to your special party.  Bluestem Bar offers creative food stations, attractive buffets, or seated full-service dining. Their attentive staff will exceed your expectations, while creating a memorable experience.

To learn more about the spaces, pricing, set up a tour, and more contact Briana at events@fenchmeadowcafe.com.

"French Meadow has led, articulated, and demonstrated everything right and good about food in America in the last several decades: championing organics before there really was such a thing; promoting sustainable agriculture; making and serving slow foods; and generally providing a tasty little oasis of thoughtful and healthy living since the dawn of time. Or 1985, more specifically."

-Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl — Minneapolis based food & wine writer

About French Meadow Bakery & Café

French Meadow Bakery & Café has been a front-runner and trendsetter when it comes to serving organic, locally grown, and healthy menu options. Lynn Gordon, owner and founder, opened the doors to the first certified organic bakery in the USA in 1985 and has been serving healthful, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, local, organic, and natural foods ever since. Both French Meadow Bakery & Café locations on Grand Avenue in St. Paul and Uptown serve innovative vegan plant based foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in addition to fresh sustainable fish, hand rolled pasta, organic grass feed animal options and more.