Jamie Malone’s Eastside Restaurant is Offering a 50% Bonus on Holiday Gift Cards Thru Dec. 24

Via a December Press Release:

From now until December 24, Chef Jamie Malone’s Eastside and Grand Café restaurants are offering gift givers a whopping 50% bonus on Holiday gift card purchases.

For every $100 purchase of Eastside or Grand Café Holiday gift cards, shoppers receive a $25 Bonus Card for that restaurant – plus a $25 Eastside Sunday Brunch gift card. Holiday gift cards can be purchased online or in person at each restaurant.

The Holiday gift cards can be redeemed after December 25th. The $25 Eastside Sunday Brunch Gift Card can be redeemed right away.

When Malone took over Eastside restaurant, 305 S Washington Avenue, Food & Wine called it a “massive win” for the city. And in the year since, Malone has augmented its downtown chic with world-class cooking, including a series of family-style offerings ranging from Whole Wood Roasted Duck to Pork Schnitzel and Smoked Ribs. In partnership with executive chef Ryan Cook, she has also given the restaurant its own version of the Happy Hour Snack Attack, and recently launched one of the city’s most inventive Sunday Brunches.

About that Eastside Brunch

The perfect bridge between breakfast and lunch, Eastside’s Sunday Brunch offers guests a multitude of paths to gustatory bliss. Start with Buttermilk Biscuits with Apple Butter – or tease the palate with Island Creek Oysters with seaweed mignonette and cocktail sauce. Ease in with a Spinach Salad, gently tossed with warm bacon vinaigrette, red onion and salsify – or dive into Fried Chicken with honey and espelette B&B pickles.

More traditional main courses range from an Omelette du Jour and Eggs Benedict (elevated by house-smoked pork coppa) to a Blueberry Dutch Baby with maple syrup and vanilla ice cream. They’re complemented by unexpected offerings including Braised Beef Shortrib with black pepper dumplings and fried egg, Spaghetti Carbonara, and a supremely shareable Lobster Thermidor with French fries.

Brunch is offered every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Two distinct experiences. One extraordinary talent. 

When Jamie Malone took over the much-loved South Minneapolis restaurant, Grand Café, 3804 Grand Avenue S, recognition came quickly. Food & Wine named it “Best New Restaurant” for 2018. And the magazine further credited Jamie for creating its “Dish of the Year” (her sweet & savory Paris-Brest: “a swirl of choux pastry painted with black honey sandwiching ethereal chicken liver mousse.”

Grand Café’s menu changes often, but patrons can count on Malone for offering inventive takes on French classics, heavy on flavor, light on pretense. Adding further intrigue to the menu: the chef’s unique take on Happy Hour fare: her multi-dish Snack Attack offering, featuring a succession of small shareables that can be paired with select $25 bottles of wine.

About Jamie Malone

Jamie received her first James Beard Award nomination in 2013 when she was named a “Rising Star Chef” semifinalist. This was followed by “Best Chef Midwest” nominations in 2014, 2015 and 2018. Food & Wine magazine named her as “Best New Chef” in 2013, and subsequently singled out Grand Café as “Best New Restaurant” in 2018, serving its 2018 “Dish of the Year.”