TJ's of Edina Restaurant — Restaurant in Edina

I live in South Minneapolis, and some time ago, my neighborhood suffered a great loss when Curran's closed. It was a special place. Not unique, but special.

The kind of place that always seems to have 6 to 8 of the same roasting group of a dozen or so elderly patrons. Where the TVs are always playing whatever sports are on, where the decor clearly hasn't changed for a couple of decades, and where the menu goes on just a page or two longer than it seems like it should.

I've been looking for my new Curran's ever since they closed. This place is a strong front-runner. My girlfriend and I gave the menu a thorough once-over before selecting the items that are absolutely mandatory for a place like this to get right. Burger with fries, Reuben with onion rings, chicken finger appetizer. Her burger came with incorrect toppings at first, but once the mistake was noticed, a replacement was out in mere minutes. The Reuben was top notch. Corned beef was tender but not the prepackaged grocery store cold-cut beef you sometimes get at chain restaurants. Kraut and dressing ratios were spot-on. The replacement burger was nicely charred and cooked to a perfect medium as requested.

The chicken fingers were actually kind of exceptional, surprisingly, with a satisfyiny shatter to the coating, and the honey mustard had exactly the right level of honey.

The perfect replacement for Curran's would serve breakfast all day instead of just breakfast hours, but as the Rolling Stones said, you can't always get a waffle with your club sandwich.

I'll definitely be back some morning to check out that breakfast menu, as well, I imagine, as to order, you know, an actual pizza from what is nominally a pizzeria.

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I'm editing one last time. But I'm happy to say the wings are back to their regular size and amazingness!! Also tried the veggie melt and it was very good the bread and veggies were excellent!!

Edit: I have to edit this review. The service is still wonderful but one of the main reasons we go to TJ's is for the chicken wings. They are one of my favorite wings.

But the last 2 times we've gone we've been disappointed. The taste is still great. But they are Half the size. I'm not sure if they downgraded the size of their product or if it's their distributor did this to them. We were very let down and disappointed, and of course, they have the same price.

PS This is an old picture of their wings posted (and yes now they are half the size) 😡

We had a sausage and mushrooms 🍄 pizza with extra sauce. The mushrooms were fresh and the sauce was more of a basic tomato sauce. It was good even though I prefer a sweet or spicy sauce. The wings were fantastic. Crunchy and flavourful. I'm def going back for the wings. The prices...

This place was just run of the mill. There was nothing special about it. We went there for breakfast. Usually I always get a side of sausage gravy but they dnt even offer it. However they did have hollandaise sauce. So I gave that a shot, unfortunately it was powdered,just add water kinda sauce. N my the ham in skillet was just regular processed thin sliced lunch meat. My wife had a different skillet n her spicy sausage was just an Italian brat that had been removed from it's casing n chopped up. If u r looking for just an average breakfast with no frills,this place will b perfectly acceptable. If u r looking for a more scratch kitchen experience I would recommend u...