PiPress List of New Restaurants Coming in 2008

Lots of new dining opening in 2008, according to this list from the PiPress. Of note: the former Old Chicago space in downtown Minneapolis will be a (wait for it) sports bar, run by the Loop Bar & Restaurant guys; Indio, another Hector Ruiz production (he of El Meson and Cafe Ena); and, on a hyperlocal note for me (a Longfellow resident), "St. Paul-based Capital Growth real-estate company is looking for restaurant tenants for Longfellow Station, an apartment and retail development across the street from the light rail on the southeast corner of Hiawatha and 38th (pdf). The company has turned down national chains, including Buffalo Wild Wings, says broker John Chirhart. 'We want it to be a neighborhood place.'"