In a world of Instagram food trends and restaurants designed primarily as selfie backdrops, there exists a humble brick building on Central Avenue in Minneapolis that cares about only one thing: serving food so good it makes you close your eyes and sigh with happiness.
Welcome to Ideal Diner, where the chicken fried steak might just change your life.
This isn’t hyperbole, friends—this is the honest truth from someone who has tasted a lot of chicken fried steak in a lot of places.
Sometimes culinary paradise isn’t found in fancy establishments with white tablecloths and sommeliers—sometimes it’s hiding behind a modest red awning on a busy street you’ve driven past a hundred times…