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About Lake StreetLake Street is proud of having an extraordinary collection of restaurants that serve foods from around the world and unique shopping & business venues spread over several commercial areas: Uptown, Lyn-Lake, Midtown, and Longfellow. Despite the unique experience that each area offers, you will soon discover what is common to all – it is the special intimacy that each store/business offers to you. Stroll around and find your favorite! To make it easy, the commercial area is walkable and easily accessible by light rail, bus, and the Midtown Greenway. We hope you visit our commercial areas and experience our unique Lake Street flavor.
-Lake Street Brochure How to get here, what you'll see, and a few of the many places to shop, dine, and be entertained -- you'll find all of that, along with a colorful map to guide you, in our Lake Street brochure, available now! Download it here (5 MB)
These are some of the things you might find worthwhile to plan a trip to Lake Street around. Be sure to check out all the local flavor while you're there! Uptown: Uptown and Lagoon Theaters (2906 Hennepin Avenue and 1320 Lagoon Avenue) Uptown Theater has been operating at its location for over 90 years, and has the biggest movie screen in the area. Both theaters host a variety of first-run independent and foreign films. Lagoon has five screens, Uptown one.
Walker Library (2880 Hennepin Avenue) The public library serving the Uptown area, Walker is 18,500 square feet and is located underground, with large letters spelling out LIBRARY on street level. Lyn-Lake: Jungle Theater (2951 Lyndale Ave. S.) In their own words, Jungle Theater offers "an eclectic season of plays selected from classic and contemporary sources" and is "celebrated by critics and audiences alike for the poetic depth and artistic excellence of its work". Offers play worth checking out throughout the year. Bryant Lake Bowl (810 West Lake Street) Much more than a bowling alley, Bryant Lake Bowl also contains a restaurant, bar, and theater, and features live theater or comedy performances almost every night.
Intermedia Arts
(2822 Lyndale Ave. S.) Established in 1973 and based in the Lyn-Lake
area since 1994, Intermedia Arts is home to a theater and art gallery
featuring art in all its different forms, by artists from Minnesota
and beyond.
Also be sure to check out the Mercado Central at 1515 East Lake Street. Forty of the most authentic Mexican spots in the city await your shopping and eating pleasure. Ingebretsen's (1601 East Lake Street) is another stop one should take to fully appreciate the cultural diversity of Lake Street. In business for over 80 years, it provides an extensive variety of Scandinavian food, products, and gifts. In the Heart of the Beast Theatre (1500 East Lake Street) delights both children and adults through its award-winning mainstage and touring shows, the annual MayDay Parade and Festival, its popular Saturday Matinees for Kids series, as well as fun hands-on puppetry classes. See their website for a full listing of performances and classes.
East Lake Library (2727 East Lake Street) This public library's renovation was completed in 2007. Lake Street now has a beautiful new addition to be proud of, and that is a resource for job seekers, residents, and the business community. Mary Altman at the City of Minneapolis has created a poster of all the art along Lake Street. Have a look at all the art projects that make Lake Street a more beautiful place to live, work and shop! Also be sure to check out our Midtown Exchange art page, then stop by and have a look for yourself! Buses run along Lake Street frequently every single day, and there are many different connections from all over Minneapolis that you can take to get here. See Metro Transit's website and Trip Planner for the exact details of any trip you want to make. Route 21 will take you anywhere you want to go on Lake Street. It runs the entire length of the street, from the far west end in Uptown all the way to the eastern end of Minneapolis at the Mississippi River. It runs about every 10 minutes every day from the morning into the evening, with stops every 2 blocks. For faster trips during rush hours, take Route 53 instead. It follows the same path as the 21, but with less frequent stops.
There are more than a dozen routes that
can get you to Lake Street, including the Hiawatha light rail line.
Below is a list of these routes and the street they will be on when
crossing Lake. They are listed from east to west.
Lake Street is surrounded by 14 of the neighborhoods in South Minneapolis and is the primary west-east street connecting them. Click on the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Street below to go to the neighborhood's website, of it they don't have one, to read their descriptions at the City of Minneapolis's website.
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