Just a few days after Mpls./St. Paul Magazine's Stephanie March mentioned seeing "Cooks wanted" and "We're remodeling" signs in the diner's window, the Downtown Journal has confirmed that Kim Robinson, a former Ideal Diner employee, purchased the restaurant from owner Kevin Kelzenberg and is intending to re-open it, though an exact date has not yet been set. 

Local food celebrity Andrew Zimmern has come out recently in, we'll just say firm opposition to the crowd-sourced restaurant review site Yelp. In his weekly podcast Go Fork Yourself, Zimmern lashed out against the website, saying, "Yelp is on my shit list!"

Yelp is the online/mobile app where users register and leave both reviews and restaurant ratings. No food writing or rating experience is required. Though users flock to the highly rated website, restaurateurs have often had less than glowing things to say about it because of the often untrained writers and what restaurant owners see as unfair and exaggerated criticisms. Here's why Zimmern is ticked off.