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Where to eat in Minnetonka, MN
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A few places to eat in Minnetonka
- Fabian Seafood Truck Seafood · 0.2 miles
10 Mn, Minnetonka - Christos Greek Restaurant Greek · 0.4 miles
15600 Highway 7, Minnetonka - Duke's on 7 Bar and Grill · 0.4 miles
15600 MN-7, Minnetonka - Dragon Jade Restaurant Chinese · 1 mile
14406 Excelsior Blvd, Minnetonka - Heather's Minnetonka Comfort Food · 1.2 miles
5445 Eden Prairie Rd, Minnetonka
The closest few by distance from central Minnetonka, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout in Minnetonka.
The food scene in Minnetonka
Open listings put 47 places to eat within 2 miles of central Minnetonka, 7 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (8), sandwiches (3) and ice cream (3). 6 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Minnetonka is ice cream — a type that is listed here at about 2 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 8 Sandwiches 3 Ice cream 3 Bakery 2 Chinese 2 Wings 2 Burgers 2 Bar & grill 2
The food in Minnetonka
Minnetonka does not have infinite options, and that brings its own problem: you have been to most of them, and picking again is somehow still hard.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Minnetonka and tells you why it picked it. Say what you're craving and it reads menus and reviews for that specific dish, rather than sorting places by overall star rating. Free, runs in the browser, and one search needs no account.
Eating out in Minnetonka
Minnetonka has a population of about 51,368. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Minnetonka, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How many places to eat are there in Minnetonka?
Minnetonka sits in Hennepin County, where the Census counts 927 full-service restaurants, 1,108 limited-service places, 311 cafés and snack bars and 96 bars — 2,442 places to eat or drink in all. Minnetonka makes up about 4% of the county's population.
That works out at 19.2 per 10,000 residents, which is about level with the national median of 19.4 — a normal amount of choice, and a normal amount of indecision. Counter service edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
Those county figures also cover Minneapolis, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Eden Prairie, Edina, St. Louis Park, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Minnetonka.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
What are you craving in Minnetonka?
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Near Minnetonka
- Eden Prairie, MN — about 5 miles away
- St. Louis Park, MN — about 5 miles away
- Plymouth, MN — about 6 miles away
- Edina, MN — about 6 miles away
- Shakopee, MN — about 9 miles away
- Bloomington, MN — about 10 miles away
Campuses in and near Minnetonka
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Normandale Community College
- Minneapolis Community and Technical College
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- North Hennepin Community College
- University of St Thomas
- Concordia University-Saint Paul
- Saint Paul College
- Anoka-Ramsey Community College
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
Maps and Yelp are directories: they rank everything nearby and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call and shows its reasoning — the match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick. The underlying place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.
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