Diane’s Place

Minneapolis

Our 2025 Restaurant of the Year served its first dinner several months after its 2024 opening, said Raphael Brion in Food & Wine , but it “has always seamlessly blended Diane Moua’s experience as a classically trained pastry chef with her roots in Hmong home cooking.” Moua was raised on a Wisconsin farm where her parents often fed other Hmong refugees, and after working for 20 years in top Twin Cities kitchens, she opened her own spot with a goal of creating a morning-to-night atmosphere just as welcoming as her parents’ place.

“As Wonder Woman is to golden lassos, so is Moua to sugar, butter, and flour,” said Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl in Mpls.St.Paul . “But now that she has all the restaurant domains to play with, we can see her soar.” Extreme attention to d

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