Il Gatto: CLOSED

• Someone smart will bring Figlio back...it was a cash cow for all those years and can be that once again!

• What is so special about Edina, Eden Prairie, or SLP?  They are all cookie cutter/homogenized suburbs with very few unique options.  The uptown area has plenty more to offer.  Beautiful lakes, biking/walking paths, stunning homes and so much more to do year round.     

• Terrible management leads to demise every time. Great food from a great chef - just too bad they hired a bowling alley manager to be the GM. She was an idiot. Nuff said....

• I visit Uptown far less often than in the past, due mostly to two bonehead decisions: Dramatically increased parking rates in the Calhoun Square ramp (No one should be forced to pay $12.00 to park for the duration of a meal in Uptown); Parasole's decision to end happy hour at 6PM (ignoring the crossover effect of diners/drinkers opting to stay for more dining/drinking).

• thanks :) I made that Porchetta, and I hope to serve it again somewhere else!

• Duplex closed too but not big enough to warrant an article. The restaurant landscape is constantly changing - what's hot today, isn't tomorrow.  I never wanted to go there after Figlio's closed.  Hopefully, something interesting will open in that space. A new Uptown bar, perhaps?

• Chris is this you? The guy who started save Figilios FB?

• I hate to admit it, but this was one of my favorite restaurants, and I usually go for the foodie type places (Haute Dish, Brasa, etc).  The food was excellent, great service, all around solid.  I recently had a Pork Shoulder with Polenta that left me reminiscing about the dish days after.

• I heard they were going to try to put a Ruby Tuesday in that spot now.

• Gentrification and all of the dipshit Edina/St Louis Park/Golden Valleyites who shop at the brand-stores that belong in a mall, not in a once-thriving residential/commercial neighborhood.

• What kind of shit "restaurant" has a big screen TV hovering over every table?  Fuck that place, it should have closed sooner.

• Can anyone explain to me what's going on in uptown?  It seems like everything is closing and all we have left are vacant lots and empty storefronts.  What gives?

• I was never going to eat there cuz with a name like Il gatto, all I could think of was a sick cat...as my food... 

• Corporate dining is lame, calhoun square is just another mall, and uptown is not cool, OK? But I considered menu revision #2 at iL Gatto a big success. It's about execution and creativity. MSP has few, good, authentic Tuscan / north italy style dining options. Not that's what il Gatto was about, but that's where they took their cues. Did 'we' not get it? Has that ship sailed for us? See you at Applebees. Quit whining about Figlio. Best advice...get to Grand Cafe or Tilia.  

•  this was a bad move from the start! You have a working and profitable business in Figlios with a young but mobile crowd and you turn the joint into some upper class environment! Youre in uptown not Minnetonka!

• Rare misstep by Parasole but I can't say I'm surprised on this one: it just wasn't unique enough to warrant the classic Parasole "good-but-not-great" cuisine. You can't really open an Edina/Eden Prairie/St. Louis Park-level Italian joint in a place like Uptown. They seemed to concede their mistake at the outset by having a Figlio section on their menu. While Figlio was outdated, people were used to it. Now the question is whether Parasole will keep that great location for a new restaurant.

• 85% of all restaurants and bars close within the first 2 years of opening.  Nothing shocking here.

• They got a hot azn bartender, where my spose to get her # from now son? Cmon!

• Thank god this is over, it has been dragged on like a dirty rag for years now. Biggest mistake was CLOSING Figlio, it was such a loss. Now, we can expect another Figlio want to be to go in and fail. Oh well.

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