Why Is SW Minneapolis Absent From Restaurant Week?

With places like , , , and  in southwest Minneapolis, it might be mysterious at first to see the list of restaurants participating in this summer's edition of MSP Magazine's Restaurant Week. 

The closest to a Southwest Minneapolis restaurant in this season's installment is the . The restaurant's special menu this week can be found here.

Natasha Freimark of MSP Mag tells Patch that the reason you have to go elsewhere for your restaurant week fun is rather simple. No-one from Southwest Minneapolis decided to take part! For whatever reason—a lack of desire to pay the fee for taking part, too busy, no need for the marketing boost during a traditionally slow time of year—the magazine didn't get any local restaurants to bite on opt-in foodie festival.