Public Kitchen Mn - Saint Paul

Sent for an early midweek vatertag 2017 dinner (7:15P). looked inside for the slightly cooler tempos. most diners were outside on the way in the early eve sun in front of the four-restaurant building near mears park, st paul. beautiful day. the food was excellent as the service. it area is within a rebuilt brick warehouse with huge firehouse door windows opposite the mears, very attractive restoration, very high deck. would be more energetic with the escap and long bar full. we have to come back on Saturday night!

Fantastic service and delicious meal!! Would definitely go back again!!

Considering the prices and atmosphere, both of which struck me as upscale/casual, I expected the food to be more inventive and, well...better! I had a pork chop $28) with what I assumed would be an interesting sauce mushrooms were mentioned) but it really felt like a heavy mushroom gravy with tiny cubes of potatoes mixed in, The gravy was so overwhelming I couldn't even tell what was mushroom and what was potato, and it could have been a shoe under that sauce and I wouldn't have known! My son had the spaghetti non-adventurous eater) which was much tastier, but again, very heavy for a late-May menu item. In a lean toward spring I also had the pear salad, but there was no gorgonzola on it as the menu promised, and the salad greens were run-of-the-mill, from the plastic clamshell. What gives, with the right-next-door Farmer's Market bursting with awesome fresh, local lettuce varieties??

Food was good- service: waitress was pleasant but we did not see her much. Wanted something but never saw her to ask. Cool building but had an odd smell.

We had a great experience with great service and wonderful food. Thank you.