Minnesota Nice Cafe

I love their pecan pancakes. Just a great breakfast place. My go to place if I just want a good old fashioned breakfast.

Great local restaurant, great family food, great service. When in town always make this place a must stop for food. Janelle gives excellent service. Friendly and great atmosphere.

My wife and I have always liked this place. Great food and servers and reasonable prices.
However, I will probably never go back.
Today we had breakfast. the Lumber Jill. Our server asked if wanted any jelly for our toast and we said yes and also some peanut butter please.
Well, we were charged 25 cents each for a small tub of the stuff. This wasn’t prepackaged. it was their PB and maybe a tablespoon of it. I know it’s not much but it’s the principle of the thing. We asked our server and she said that they are told to add a price for «anything not normally included» in a breakfast. Since when is PB not a normal part of toast?
I have never heard of this being done anywhere and we eat out a lot and all over the US.
If you must recover that cost, add a nickel to cost of everything on the menu. No one will notice or care.
Don’t nickel and dime people for little things!

This place was great! Even impressed the Minnesota natives in our ice fishing party. Next time I come out I’ll be stopping in. Even if we don’t fish at Upper Red Lake.

Visiting Bemidji to see the famed Paul Bunyan statue, I heard about the Minnesota Nice Café. I was unsure how to find it but lucky for me, Bemidji isn’t that huge so I found this ordinary looking restaurant. Inside, the décor is nicer. Local artwork, such as paintings of wildlife and landscapes, are on display. But how does the food stack up?
It stacks up excellently! The selection is varied, even boasting gluten-​free offering and iced coffee! I went with the country fried steak which was topped with country gravy and came with eggs, potatoes (I chose hash browns) and toast (wheat). The food was on a small plate, but was more than sufficient for me. Don’t pass this place up. Anyone visiting Bemidji needs to eat here!

My family stopped here for a late breakfast. The food is absolutely delicious, the atmosphere friendly, everything you’d expect from a place that calls itself «nice». As much as we each enjoyed the meal we ordered, we couldn’t resist eating off each other’s plates. Everything was so good! We look forward to our next visit.

Swedish meatballs. Enough said! They make the yummy sour cream and cucumber salad my grandmother used to make. The reubens are excellent as well-​the homemade marble rye is delicious.

Oh, breakfast doesn’t get much better than the MN Nice Café! Come with an empty stomach and be prepared to leave with it full, because you’re gonna want to eat everything on your plate.
We had a stop over in Bemidji on our way home from a road trip weekend and began tootling around the downtown district when we happened upon the café that night. I noticed that it had gotten great reviews from other Unilocalers and we decided to head their the next morning. What a homecookin’ treat that was! Between the two of us, we had pancakes, sausage, eggs, hash browns, and biscuits and gravy! We tried but couldn’t quite eat all of it, but we did give a valiant effort. The eggs were flavorful (which you don’t always get at a restaurant unless they’re organic or cage-​free), pancakes were fluffy, sausage had just the right amount of spices, hash browns were cooked to the perfect blend of crunchy and softness, and the biscuits and graver were out of this world! Moist biscuits and a great gravy that was spicier and had more flavor than you usually get with the dish (almost tasted like they added red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper to it… whatever they did, it works)!
The service was great too. It was just nearing the end of the busy morning rush, but still there were many tables of customers and we were never left waiting for an extended amount of time for anything! Impressive!
You have to stop here for a satisfying meal. They do have lunch options, but let’s be serious… with these breakfast options, why try anything else!

Walleye Chunks Basket — This is delicious! The fries are cooked just right with good seasoning. The only drawback was that I found a few bones in the fish chunks, you just need to be extra careful when eating this tasty, regional treat. The bones wouldn’t deter me from ordering again, it was that good.

Couldn’t beat the wild rice omelet I had for breakfast with cheesy hash brown casserole and the best pancakes I EVER ate – light, fluffy. Fast and friendly service. This will be my go-​to spot next time I’m in Bemidji.

Good spot for good eats! I had the «Paul’s Stupendous» and was not disappointed. It was a good burger for the price. If I where to go back I’d try something from the breakfast menue which seems to be more in their chopping block!

Not great for what you pay for and each time I’ve been there (3 times) I’ve had terrible service. The atmosphere was okay but not worth the 15 min wait for water.

Great stop for mid-​afternoon breakfast! The Southwest Omlet was wonderful! A side of baby reds with bacon topped it off. A bonus for me was the gluten-​free options in bread, pancakes and more!

I love a good breakfast out, and the sheer number of menu choices here made me giddy. But, even though the waitress had never tried them, I went with the wild rice pancakes and I’d never change that. They were so good. The texture was totally changed. I’ve eaten a lot of pancakes in my life, but these were different and very worth it. The restaurant was crowded at 8:30 on a Saturday morning. Already can’t wait to go back for this same dish.