Based on 434 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.2 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
4301 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409
Phone: (612) 824-4719
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Hours
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | 5–10 PM |
| Wednesday | 5–10 PM |
| Thursday | 5–10 PM |
| Friday | 5 PM–12 AM |
| Saturday | 5 PM–1 AM |
| Sunday | Closed |
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Order and Reservations
Reservations: apoympls.com
Reviews
Nawni Nguyen
This place is great. The vibe is so nice and relaxing. Easy to chill and talk for a long time with friends. The drinks are very interesting. If you’re up to experimenting, I recommend their drink menu. The staff is friendly and down to earth. Really can’t go wrong with this corner restaurant if you’re looking for a fun time out
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Adrianna Strong
Food is always amazing, the drinks are great, and the staff is awesome. Every time we come here, we leave happy. Such a good vibe inside as well. The Cubano sandwich is my go to meal.
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Mae Bangtan
Food was very delicious and flavorful. We ordered the chicken Adobo, the shrimp bicol, chicken wings, pork belly garlic fried rice and house fries. Excellent!
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Angela Skrade
I was really looking forward to finally trying this place. The food had been recommended to me by friends, and it’s close by. I made plans with family for dinner and made a Friday 6:30pm reservation for 3 online. Which was quickly confirmed. We arrived for our reservation about 5-10 minutes early. When we walked in, we stood and waited at the host stand. It was not very busy. 3 Tables had people eating, and there was a group of people hanging at the bar. 2-2 tops, 2-4 tops and a number of spaces at the bar were open. We stood at the host stand watching staff set up a table for one of their Kamayan dinners. No one acknowledged us. We waited about 5 minutes. Finally the staff member setting up the table came over and asked if we had a reservation. When I told him yes, he took my name, mumbled something about checking on our table and disappeared into the kitchen, never to return to us. We continued to wait awkwardly at the host stand. At this point, discussing if we should just leave and go somewhere else. I checked my phone and we had already been waiting at least 20 minutes. While this is going on some people crammed in behind us, and went and grabbed spots at the bar. Another couple walked in and were greeted by a staff member after a minute, and told without a reservation, it would be a 45 minute wait. Finally after about 5 more minutes, another staff person comes over, asks again about reservations, and then ushers us over to a weird little corner area right by the door where he says we can wait while they get our table ready. He asks if we want to order drinks, brings us menus, then disappears again. Another staff person comes over and asks if we’ll be eating at this odd little counter spot. We told her no, we’re waiting for a table. She scuttles away. Finally the guy who gave us the menus comes back with waters for us. So against our better judgment, we each order a drink. The drinks come fairly quick, with our server saying something to us that sounded like our table would be ready in either 3-5 minutes, or 35 minutes. None of us were sure. The wait continues. At this point, we’ve figured out they’re waiting for a couple to leave so they can give us their table. We’re all still sitting shoved in the corner with our coats on, but at least we have cocktails. Finally the couple leaves and the server who brought us drinks jumps on clearing the table. Keep in mind, this whole business is really confusing us, because half the restaurant is still empty tables. Finally we’re seated at a table. At this point, we’ve been here at least an hour, or more. Our server finally brings us dinner menus. When we order, they’re out of the appetizer we want. Our server suggested something else. We go with it. And then the wait continues. At this point, we’ve figured out what their issue is. They have all these table set aside for parties doing Kamayan meals. All the staff are focused on this, so if you are coming to eat just a regular dinner, you’re a side note. At this point, we’re still waiting for food. Our appetizer finally arrives and we order another round of drinks. Again, cocktails come quick, dinner does not. We had finished our appetizer, which was huge, and then continued to sit there. By the time our food finally comes, there’s live music playing, which is so loud, we have to scream at each other across the table to talk. This was one of the things we were hoping to avoid by coming at 6:30pm. By the time we got out of there, it was almost 9pm. The food and drinks were good, but not worth this kind of time investment, especially with a reservation. Our server comped our first round of drinks in apology for how long everything took, which was appreciated, but not enough to make me want to ever come back, even for take out. As we left everyone in our group agreed, well, we tried it. No need to go back. My suggestion to this place, if you can’t handle a party of 3, in addition to 3 parties doing Kamayan, perhaps don’t accept non-Kamayan reservations for the evening.
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Carolina Niebres
Mom and I went to try this place. The other 2 were disappointing. This was a bit better but still not quite there.
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Tim MacMurdo
Great Filipino food, the lumpia was fantastic and the serving team was helpful and friendly. Street parking was a little challenging. Highly recommend and will return. Be careful on busy nights, they do take reservations.
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Joe Ratliff
Hello! This restaurant has been on my “need to go list” for awhile and I’m disappointed I didn’t go sooner! I will start by saying thank you to the staff for the great service and very clean, chill environment! The restaurant itself is a smaller more intimate place that’s very simple but beautiful. The menu itself seems very thought out and detailed. Each item had a good description and I got a general idea of what I would be getting. The drink menu was also very descriptive and inventive, I don’t think I’ve had drinks that are this complex before in flavor variety. Now the food itself is some of the best I’ve had, truly the chefs know what they are doing and want to please the guest. Everything was cooked perfect and had such intense flavor that kept everyone at the table thinking about it way after dinner. I’d recommend anyone to this place as it feels very welcoming and can cater to most people. Most of the menu can be had as vegetarian which is an added benefit! I’d recommend getting the pork belly fried rice and the flan for dessert, absolutely incredible! Thank you again to everyone at Apoy and to anyone who read this review, have a wonderful day!
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Brandy Jansen
By far the best food I have had in Minneapolis! Heard about this place in March, and have been trying to get here every time I am in the area and it finally happened. This place did not disappoint. Andrew greeted us with a friendly warm smile, the atmosphere is fun and comfortable. It’s a small little bistro where the staff are smiling and very helpful. I will be back! Great job Andrew!
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Matthew Jacques
First red flag was that the staff didn’t have our reservation, which was odd. Luckily there was an unoccupied table. We Waited an hour for our food, with no sort of update or reasoning from the staff.
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Phuong Hoang
Everything was good until we found that the green wasn’t clean. They did not wash the vegetable. We told the server. All she said was “Really? Ok! Sorry” then walkaway like nothing happened. She couldn’t careless. Never took the soup back to the kitchen or remove off the bill. Ok! Sorry! We will never go back. The service was awful.
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