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per the STrib:
A familiar name — OK, one of the most recognized names in Minnesota sports history — is going to be lighting up a restaurant marquee on a busy stretch of France Avenue in Edina. And it’s not a sports bar.
The name? Lou Nanne. The restaurant? Lou Nanne’s, a steakhouse. The site? The soon-to-close Romano’s Macaroni Grill (7651 France Av. S., Edina) in the Centennial Lakes Office Park complex.
“This is probably the best location I’ve ever had,” said co-owner Michael McDermott of the McDermott Restaurant Group, which operates Rojo Mexican Grill, Shag and Ling & Louie’s.
Nanne is, of course, the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame-er, former Minnesota North Stars player, coach and general manager. He said he has been approached by restaurateurs for decades, but always turned them down. Until now.
“It was always the same, a sports bar,” he said. “Never anything unique. But all the dynamics here, they’re just perfect.”
Nanne has an ownership stake in the business, but a less defined day-to-day role.
“I expect I’ll spend a lot of time there,” he said, referring to himself as the restaurant’s “No. 1 taster.” In that capacity, he is insisting on one menu item: a bucatini Bolognese, based on his wife’s recipe. “I’d have it seven nights a week, if I could,” he said with a laugh.
http://www.startribune.com/north-star-legend-lou-nanne-putting-his-name-on-a-steakhouse/323645611/
Go Gophers!!
A familiar name — OK, one of the most recognized names in Minnesota sports history — is going to be lighting up a restaurant marquee on a busy stretch of France Avenue in Edina. And it’s not a sports bar.
The name? Lou Nanne. The restaurant? Lou Nanne’s, a steakhouse. The site? The soon-to-close Romano’s Macaroni Grill (7651 France Av. S., Edina) in the Centennial Lakes Office Park complex.
“This is probably the best location I’ve ever had,” said co-owner Michael McDermott of the McDermott Restaurant Group, which operates Rojo Mexican Grill, Shag and Ling & Louie’s.
Nanne is, of course, the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame-er, former Minnesota North Stars player, coach and general manager. He said he has been approached by restaurateurs for decades, but always turned them down. Until now.
“It was always the same, a sports bar,” he said. “Never anything unique. But all the dynamics here, they’re just perfect.”
Nanne has an ownership stake in the business, but a less defined day-to-day role.
“I expect I’ll spend a lot of time there,” he said, referring to himself as the restaurant’s “No. 1 taster.” In that capacity, he is insisting on one menu item: a bucatini Bolognese, based on his wife’s recipe. “I’d have it seven nights a week, if I could,” he said with a laugh.
http://www.startribune.com/north-star-legend-lou-nanne-putting-his-name-on-a-steakhouse/323645611/
Go Gophers!!