The Greatest! > wrote:
> Sky wrote:
>
>> My folks will be in the Rochester MN (Mayo Clinic) area in the near
>> future, and I hope someone can recommend eateries and the like, and
>> perhaps other places and sites of interest that might be easy and fun,
>> physically. If course, there's always a library and movie theaters but
>> that's not a good option at the present time given health circumstances.
>> It seems a Trader Joe's is in the area, so I'll be sure to mention it
>> to them; er, not that TJ's is exactly an 'eatery,' but it does have food
>> <vbg>. Since I've never been to "Minnysoda" before, I have no clues.
>> TYIA
>>
>> Sky
>
>
> Yelp is my go - to site, start he
>
> https://www.yelp.com/c/rochester-mn-us/restaurants
>
> And as Sheldon mentions, Trip Advisor...
>
>

That's all well and good to recommend googling and whatnot, but that is of
little help when you don't have a concept of where these restaurants are in
terms of convenience to where they are staying or accessibility based on
mobility limitations or transportation needs. Depending on their
schedule of medical tests and procedures, they not be up for getting
fancied up and going miles away from their hotel for dinner. Sometimes
it's nice to know of smaller, lesser known good eateries that are close by
but not largely recognized by the traveling, Trip Advisor rating, public.
Further, this is Minnesota in winter. If they are coming from a warm
climate with little snow/ice experience, they may not want to run around
town at all, or be able to, depending on what the weather is up to that
day.

That said, the restaurants listed on Trip Advisor and Yelp are all good
choices. Having spent half of my 47 years living in Rochester and still
having my parents and other relatives there, I'm there all the time and I'm
fairly familiar with several of them (although I haven't personally been to
all of them).

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