
It says the hidden cocktail bar takes you back to the "1920s with a secret room in the bar, mirrors that open outwards (just in case you need to dump your drink if there’s a raid), and dim candlelight," Liveability noted. They just put together a list of t he Best Hidden Bars in Each State, and Minnesota's entry is a hidden bar that's about 84 miles away from Rah-Rah-Rochester, in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis.Īccording to Livability, Volstead's Emporium, (located in the alley off West Lake Street and Lyndale, just to the left of the garbage dumpsters) is the Best Hidden Bar in Minnesota. Her love for Japanese culture and cuisine and technique has deepened immensely along the way, and she thoughtfully sources her premium Japanese ingredients for Sukeban the same as the tools she sources for Coutelier.That's the word, anyway, from the crew over at.
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Their goal is to support and promote the unrivaled focus of the multi-generation craftsmanship executed by Japanese blacksmiths who hand forge professional cutlery and tools for their culinary community. She travels annually to Japan, sourcing the tools of this ancient craft they have come to foster an immense respect and understanding towards. In 2015, she moved back home to New Orleans to open Coutelier, a highly curated knife shop focusing on the finest hand forged Japanese cutlery - a niche business based on the needs of her peers and fellow cooking community of South Louisiana. She headed back to New Orleans as executive sous chef at Restaurant August for several years, and after a summer cooking in Provence, Jackie joined the team at San Francisco’s highly acclaimed Benu as sous chef where she helped the team earn 3 Michelin stars. She later joined the team at Frasca in Boulder, CO in the restaurant’s early years, then went on to a stint at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York.

After getting her bachelor degree in Culinary Arts from Nicholls State University just after Hurricane Katrina, she headed west to join the team of Chef Thomas Keller’s French Laundry and Bouchon in Napa Valley. Cooking has always been in the fabric of her family - taking part in traditions such as crawfish boils in the Spring and the old Cajun boucheries each fall.

Her family fled Nova Scotia during the Acadian exile and settled into the Lafourche Valley in the late 1700’s as farmers, and they’ve been there ever since. Jacqueline is a 10th generation Cajun from Bayou Lafourche in Southeast Louisiana’s Assumption Parish. Īfter a 20 year career in fine dining, Sukeban is Jacqueline Blanchard’s first restaurant and solo project - a New Orleans take on a Japanese style izakaya.

We look forward to welcoming you to Sukeban soon!įor more information on reservations, buyouts, event bookings, and press, please contact us at. All transactions at are on a cashless basis. No-shows or cancellations within 24 hours of the reservation will be subject to a cancellation fee of $50 per diner.

If you need to cancel or reschedule your reservation, please let us know before 24 hours of your reservation. Booth bookings can accommodate parties of 5 to 7 guests. We will be accepting reservations for our one and only 6-top booth at 4pm, 6pm, and 8pm seatings - with each of those seatings allotted 2 hours. If the bar is full, we kindly ask that you wait for the next available open seats - we fill them as they open up. Our 16 seat bar is available by walk-in only, operating on a first come, first served basis. Currently our hours of operation are 4-9pm Tuesday-Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday. Sukeban is a fast casual Japanese style izakaya, with temaki hand-rolls being our specialty.
