lsanderson | Three from Eat Street

Black Forest Inn
BY JAKE WEYER

Now a neighborhood institution, the Black Forest Inn started as a young German immigrant’s plan to make a million dollars running the best restaurant in town. More

Quang
BY CRISTOF TRAUDES

Charles works the register. Little brother Daniel is general manager. Sister Khue is in the back, generating new recipes. Youngest sister Sen stays up front and handles marketing. Three more siblings help out, too, and occasionally get a boost from their second cousin, who manages a hair salon upstairs. More

PHOTO BY AMANDA KUSHNER
Gangchen owner Nyima Choegak.
Gangchen
BY AMANDA KUSHNER

Tibet is the highest region on earth, and is referred to by many different names, including gangchen, which means land of snow. That’s part of the reason one of the owners, Nyima Choegak, moved to Minneapolis. He likes the cold weather. Choegak is originally from Tibet, but because of politics he decided to move to India, then to Seattle, and he ended up in Minneapolis in 2002. More