Alma
Minnesota
Alma is a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at 528 University Ave SE in the Marcy-Holmes area. Its official website presents the restaurant alongside a cafe and hotel, but the dining room itself operates as a separate reservation-led evening venue rather than an all-day brasserie. Current restaurant information places service on Wednesday to Sunday from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm, with bookings taken for dinner service in the city’s northeast side. The restaurant’s food offering is built around two set formats: a Seasonal 3-Course Menu and a Chef’s 6-Course Tasting. Both are framed as seasonally changing menus that move through snacks, vegetable, grain, fish and meat courses before dessert. The kitchen also notes that vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and pescatarian requests can be accommodated, and wine pairings are available with the tasting menu. Alma describes its cooking as ingredient-led and relationship-based, with sourcing centred on local, regional and organic produce. The restaurant says its meat comes from animals raised without antibiotics or added growth hormones, while seafood is sourced from certified sustainable fisheries and farms. It also states that it cooks with traditional fats such as butter, ghee, olive oil and rendered animal fats, which points to a careful, classical approach rather than a broad, standardised menu. The wider Alma house includes a cafe and a small hotel, although those are separate from the restaurant service. The cafe serves pastries, sandwiches, coffee, wine and cocktails, while the hotel has seven unique rooms. Within the restaurant, diners can book either the dining room or counter seating, and the site indicates that the meal is expected to last about 1.5 hours, shaping a focused dinner experience in a compact hospitality setting.