Awards and Accolades

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• "FAB Coffee Shop"
  "FAB Place for a First Date"
  - Lavender Magazine's 2005 Outstanding Awards
• "Hottest Coffee Shop in the USA "
  - OUT Magazine Summer of 2005 Hot List
• "Top 10 New Restaurants - Twin Cities "
  -CitySearch / MSN 2004
• "Best New Restaurant" & "Best Casual Dining"
  - Lavender Magazine's 2004 Outstanding! Awards
• "Best Coffeehouse"
  - Leo Mezzrow's List, The Minneapolis Observer
• "Best Queer Coffee Shop"
  City Pages 2005, 2006

Articles & Reviews

• Downtown Minneapolis Magazine - May/June 2007
• Minnesota Monthly Magazine - November 2006
• Bon Appetit Magazine: Desserts We Love - August 2006
• Passport Magazine: What's New in Minneapolis - February 2006
• Star Tribune: Hot Hangouts - January 20, 2006
  "Chic yet cozy is the best way to describe the seating area next to the fireplace at the Wilde Roast Cafe..."
• Star Tribune: Talking on the Wilde Side - January 15, 2006
  " A school teacher and a carpenter have created a welcoming environment where their namesake playwright, with his eccentricities and humorous asides, would have been quite comfortable..."
• City Pages: Wilde, Civilized - August 18, 2004
  "...You should know that as a café, Wilde Roast succeeds terrifically--it combines the best aspects of coffee shop, wine bar, and lunch spot into one elegant meeting space..."
• Star Tribune: Hybrids Are Blooming - October 21, 2005
  "...French toast so deliriously decadent it approaches Enron-like levels of overindulgence..."
• The Rake - November 2004
  "Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's given to you."
• Fresh Cup Magazine
• NWA World Traveler Magazine - November 2004
• Lavender Magazine - December 2004
  "Actually, Wilde Roast is just as much a threat to society as Wilde once was himself. It challenges not the morality of our era—indeed, it weaves a strong fabric of inclusion as a neighborhood-centric gathering place—but rather the onslaught of the homogenized coffee-house chains that provide the same airbrushed aura in Bloomington as in Barcelona or Beijing."