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	Stock & Bond Date: Oct 17, 2025 88 South 6th St, Minneapolis, MN 55402 Phone: (952) 260-8878 www.stockandbondmn.com

Stock & Bond
You can BANK on this Restaurant

We rarely go to steak places for a number of reasons. First we like to go to places that the bill is under $100 including drinks so most of our readers can try the place. We also find that it’s steak, it’s great but how many interesting ways can one cook steak. Lastly we absolutely love a great steak from Morellis or Ready Meats meat market in the Nordeast on our deck grill.

A steak on our grill, pull the TV out to the deck and watch a great old movie from a book we were supposed to read in High School or college.

But Stock & Bond opened up recently downtown Mpls and we felt it our obligation to go and tell you about it. So on the dumbest night of the fall, Paul McCartney was performing blocks away we chose to try to find a parking place and go to Stock & Bond in the now closed Farmers & Mechanics Saving Bank converted to a new trendy upscale Restaurant and taster of great spirits attached to the Westin Hotel.

We rarely go to chain restaurant where many times you find corporate food. We prefer to see what the local Food Artists have to offer. And there is no question the chefs at the great stand alone single restaurants are artists.

Stock & Bond has a sister restaurant in Oklahoma City, which we were fine with a two restaurant chain. Stock & Bonds genre is based on an old Art Deco bank to be converted to the restaurant as they did with the now closed Farmers and Mechanics Savings bank building downtown Mpls. It is an upscale steak and great spirts tasting venue.

We went on a Friday night a few blocks from the US Bank Stadium the night Paul MCarthney brought his band to town. Downtown was full and buzzing. Interestingly with this new trendy restaurant E had to only wait three weeks to get reservations on a Friday night at 7:30. We always go to the free North Loop wine tasting first. There was no line at Stock & Bond so don’t expect to just show up and get seated without a reservation. And it is in the Westin Hotel building so those spending the night are probably filled with Westin guests.

So where do we start. We parked across the street from Stock & Bond in the Wells Fargo Center parking lot. It was $20 that busy night but only needing to cross the street was great. If you park where we did here’s a hint the Left elevator door will close but then won’t move, the right side is fine. If you walk out at street level you will be a block from, across the street from Murrays the home of the butter knife steak, where we took you a last summer.

We walked feet to Stock & Bond to the valet guys at the front of the restaurant. Hint don’t get stranded in an elevator let the Valet guys park your vehicle, can’t be much more than the $20 we paid.

As we entered Stock & Bond we were taken back by the grandeur of a 1940s Bank building. It is a great place to take someone you want to impress. The bar and tables were built in the same places people transacted deposits sixty years prior. On the 33-foot ceiling is a huge mural that runs most the length of the restaurant. Stock & Bond is definitely in the running for the most interesting places to eat in the metro.

We were taken to our table for two in about the center of the restaurant. Denise our waitress introduced herself and gave us water, menus and their drink lists. The by the glass red wine list has a dozen wines from $15 to $35. E had a great Liberty Reserve Cab from Paso where we toured a couple of years ago for $16 which was great. I had a Brancaia Super Tuscan rebel wine which was ok for $17. Looking for a bottle of wine to impress friends? They have them to $1500.

I took a dozen pictures of pages of their several hundred spirits menu from all over the world. Not saying these spirits from all over the world are expensive. But I’ll give you a hint, they are kept/displayed  in the banks walk in safe! Want to try a few of their hundreds of international spirits they start from $12 a drink to god knows how pricey for angel spirits. 

So onto the menu. I like wedge salads which we split one which came on separate plates for $15 for two of us. It was a great wedge salad. The only problem is the Truffle Fries for $15 came at the same time, our fault. The wedge salad was so good we held off getting to the Truffle fries until they were cold. Take $15 off the bill and skip the fries and that puts the bill WITH drinks right at $100 for two of us.

Next for the entre’ we could have had steak which we ate in South St Paul last weekend. An 8 oz steak here was $66. And that would not feed both of us. So E spied an Ora King Salmon dish with MN Wild Rice to share for $44, we’ll make budget yet! So we ordered it. Then we were asked the strangest question: How would you want that done? I normally say so it doesn’t Moo or pink. But this was Salmon in all our years we were never been asked how we desired our “fish” cooked. We went with medium well and it was perfect.

The salmon arrived a few minutes later again as we were splitting it each were served to us on our own plates and they were presented well.

Not only did we each have a large piece of salmon, but they sat on a bed of wild rice & mirepoix (carrots, celery, onion) with sauce a’ l’orange. Then they added some tart cranberry around the outside edge of the bed of the wild rice. It was OMG great and we both left full.

E and I talked about sharing entrée’s. If you share one as we did and you are hungry after, which we don’t remember that ever happening to us. You have just left room for desert which is usually half or a quarter the price of an entrée’ Win-Win!

The bill ended up $118 even after Mpls city tax which I think was like $90. We were all smiles that the bill didn’t start with a $2… The people were all very nice and the 100 other people in this new grand eating establishment were all smiles… Liv’n Da Dream.

Will we be back? SURE… Who wants to go!

Contact us Dennis@ToDoTC.com