This casual bar serves up delicious, creative plant-based burgers and cocktails in a cozy atmosphere, perfect for both vegans and non-vegans alike.
"Central Avenue restaurant Francis serves a menu of soul-satisfying vegan bar food: Think Impossible burgers and black bean burgers; vegan Juicy Lucys; crispy chicken sandwiches and nuggets made with a seitan-tofu blend that’s breaded and fried; wedge salads topped with plant-based bacon and blue cheese; and much more. There’s also a bar with fully vegan cocktails." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
"Francis, Northeast Minneapolis’s newest vegan restaurant, serves a great burger. A few, in fact: an Impossible patty stacked with fried seitan bacon, a garlicky black bean burger, even a Juicy Lucy stuffed with vegan cheese. But it’s not only Francis’s delectably greasy meat-free burgers that make it stand out in the Twin Cities vegan scene — it’s the restaurant’s bar program, which is entirely free of animal-derived dyes, additives, and fining agents. You’ll find no Negronis made with dyes from crushed beetles, wines filtered through fish bladders, or beers sweetened with lactose on this menu." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
"Francis’s small sidewalk patio is open for vegan burgers and cocktails. Fair warning, there are only a few tables outside, but the windows are open for indoor dining." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
"There are few other restaurants in Minneapolis with such a powerful plant-based restaurant and bar program. Open since February 2023, Francis is a vegan’s delight. Nor should the herbivores be left out of the Juicy Lucy conversation: This Impossible patty riff comes with all the fixings, and arrives between two brioche buns." - Eater Staff, Justine Jones
"Yes, this is a juicy lucy guide and most of the notable ones around town are made with beef. However, the all-vegan menu at Francis includes a great juicy lucy made with your choice of an Impossible or housemade black bean patty stuffed with vegan cheese and loaded with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and their pub sauce on a plant-based brioche bun. Grab a stool in the dark, moody bar (the stellar cocktail list was created in collaboration with a local distillery), or check out the adjacent kid-friendly dining room decorated with a mural of frolicking burgers. Be sure to order some francy sauce for fry-dipping: it’s a plant-based riff on thousand island dressing that we’re certain even non-vegans will prefer to the original." - stacy brooks
