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User Rating:

4.2 out of 5 (from 31 users)

Address:

3450 Lydale Ave S
Minneapolis
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Tel:

(612) 822-8062

Hours:

M-Th: 11am-9pm

F-Sa: 11am-10pm

Su: 4pm-9pm

Parking:

street parking

Outdoor Seating:

ground level

Smoke Level:

none - ordinance


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El Meson ($$$)

Happy Hour & Drink Specials

Happy Hour & Drink Specials

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sunday
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
4 pm - 6 pm
$2.50 Select Bottled Beer, $3 House Wines, $4 Sangria, $3-5 Tapas
sunday
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
12 pm - 9 pm
1/2 priced bottles of Wine (select), $5 off Sangria Carafe with Entree purchase

Average User Rating: 4.2 out of 5 (from 31 users)

El Meson Bistro is a "Spanish-Carribean bistro" that features a lunch time buffet (11am-2pm M-F). Its a popular neighborhood restaurant featuring authentic Carribean-style food (excellent paella, many vegetarian options).

A "Meson" is a country Spanish restaurant, with rustic decor and serving up hearty foods and wines, and thats exactly with El Meson specializes in. El Meson is small, intimate, and dim lit, with private booths, complimented by great wine selections and friendly service. Its not open super late, but totally worth the visit for dinner and evening dining with an excellent wine list. In summer, one of the best things ever is to sit on the small sidewalk patio and sip sangria during happy hour!

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This place has delicious authentic spanish caribbean food. The portions are kind of small on most items but that's what you get for having fancy food! I love the Quesillo which is almond crusted baked brie served with an apple cider apricot sauce & parsley garlic puree. Don't get the fish, it's SUPER small and will not fill you up!

-- Katy gave this bar a 4 out of 5 at 10:07 03.24.10

Heavenly food, great service. Not cheap, but certainly the best value in town. I've never been disappointed. Avoid the rice and plantain dishes, they're kind of boring and starch-heavy. The fish, all of it, is amazing, as are the tenderloin and filet mignon. The cheese empanadas are really freaking good too.

-- KJ gave this bar a 5 out of 5 at 15:27 07.05.09

fantastic restaurant. very authentic. great food. well done!

-- uptowner gave this bar a 5 out of 5 at 21:03 03.19.09

We were underwhelmed. The buffet was passable with the primary hit being the salsa and guacamole. What wasn't impressive was the fact that there was one server for the entire restaurant at lunch, and our sangria was very, very watered down. For the regular prices you expect to taste something that impresses and very little of it did.

-- Dave B gave this bar a 2 out of 5 at 02:10 01.20.09

I have been here twice. First time service and food were great. Second time, the food was great but the service was horrible! It was very slow in there so he had no excuse.

-- Ann gave this bar a 3 out of 5 at 04:45 08.22.08

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