Join us Thursday, June 3rd, 6p to 8p for happy hour at The Independent. It’s simple… you get to drink and eat our generous happy hour specials and 25% of the proceeds our local Habitat for Humanity.
Like you need a good excuse to get out for happy hour…
…it’s CHARITY! Come join us and have a good time.

Happy Hour runs daily 3p to 7p as follows and Thursday offer 1/2 priced bottled wine and $2 domestic bottles 7p to close with DJ Dan Verve spinning some Hip Hop beats 9po to close.

Happy Hour:
2 for 1 mixed drinks, including premium brands
$3 house wine and selected tap beers
$5 specialty martinis and happy hour appetizers

The Indy loves you!

Dine Out.  Fight AIDS.

Please join The Independent as we support “Dining Out for Life” on Thursday, April 29th.  Together, with other local establishments, we will be donating a portion of our LUNCH & DINNER sales to The Aliveness Project — an wonderful organization that provides resources to those in our community affected by HIV/AIDS.

The Independent is a Platinum Sponsor so we will donating a full 35% of all lunch and dinner sales from 12 noon when we open until 2 am with we close!  RESERVATIONS are RECOMMENDED, as it is annually a very busy and fun day at The Independent!  Call #612-378-1905 or book online at www.theindependent-uptown.com.

Thinking Lunch?  Donate simply  by popping in for one of our new Lunch Combos!  Mix and match a selection of fresh sandwiches, homemade soups, salads and sides – served with your choice of beverage — just $8.99.   Served daily M0n-Sat for lunch through 3 pm.  Even better — make is  a Martini Lunch cuz you can add one of our award-winning Specialty Martinis to your lunch combo for just $5!

Other Thursday Specials  During Dining Out for Life, our chef team will be whipping up several great dinner specials, plus we will still be offering our regular Thursday night specials:

Happy Hour 3 pm to 7 pm (2 for 1 mixed drinks, $3 taps, $3 house wine, $5 specialty martinis & appetizers)

Then all night:  $2 domestic bottles, 1/2 price wine bottles and late night appetizers just $5 10 pm to close.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING LOCALLY OWNED RESTAURANTS, AS WE SUPPORT LOCAL CHARITIES!  It matters!

The Independent Loves You!

Greetings, Indy friends! As you are most certainly aware, this Sunday, April 4th is Easter Sunday. Whether that means spending time with family, meeting your girl/boyfriends parents, hanging with friends or nursing a hangover from the night before — The Indy Sunday Brunch is there for you…
At a very reasonable $12.99, we got it all: fresh fruit & pastries, fresh salads, a list of breakfast favorites, weekly entree feature, harved ham and beef, waffle bar, made to order omelets, dessert table and more!
Even better… add a build-your-own bloody mary bar for just $2 with brunch purchase.
If you don’t have reservations yet — give us a call at #612-760-9689 and we’ll get ya set up.
Thanks for supporting The Independent! Join us for brunch every Sunday from 10a to 3p.

Hi, Indy fans!  Thanks for visiting our new blog.  More importantly… thank you in advance for becoming a fan of The Independent on the online social network of your choice!

Please use the buttons conveniently located to the right to click on the social network of your choice and become a fan.  Whether you are on “Team FaceBook” or “Team Twitter”, all you gotta do is follow The Independent and ever week or so, we’ll send you a quick update on all thing “Independent” including drink specials, VIP party and event invites and Uptown & Calhoun Square gossip!

Even more important:  Start following us know and help us rock the vote of the 2010 City Pages “Best Of” edition.  Can you believe that The Independent has never gotten a nod from City Pages for “Best Happy Hour”, “Best Late Night Dining” or “Best Sunday Brunch” ?!?

We’re aiming to change that… there is NO REASON boring corporate chain restaurants should be getting editorial praise when there are plenty of great independently owned and operated joints in town that do a bang up job!  So anyway… please CLICK a button on the right and help The Indy out — and just cuz we ROCK, everyone that joins by March 13th will receive a great free offer.

Stay tuned for more City Pages “Best of” gossip… voting starts soon and goes all month long.  Become an Indy Fan today and we’ll make sure to tell you when and where to vote soon!

The Indy Loves You!  Thank you for supporting your local, independent everything!

The Independent is now ONLINE everywhere!

First of all, I’m writing this post just to get a sample view of what my brand-new template looks like.   You like it?  No?  Well, too bad!  Get over it!  It’s flawless Baby! Flawless I tell ya!

Actually, I’ve been working on this theme for about eight hours and so it’s time to pull off the “spaghetti test”, throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.

Hrmm…  What Am I Talking  about..?

I spent last Saturday afternoon with James and his fabulous restaurant/nightclub The Independent-Uptown.  I was stunned by the fact that the entire afternoon was fairly well filled with visitors!

Honestly asked: “Who sits in a bar on a Saturday afternoon?”

I’ll tell you who: “Folks who are finishing with their shopping!”, “Folks who are meeting with friends!”.  Nice folks, gay folks, white folks, straight folks and black folks and homophobic folks.  It’s headquarters for friends to meet like magnetic north.

I was happy to chirp my mind that the bartender was a hottie – and he blushed with flattery!  I giggled at the waitresses wore leather aprons trimmed in lace and she wiggled her fanny without hesitation.  The Indie is my new favorite Twin Cities drinking hole with benefits!

James is to “The Indie” as Mr. Roarke was to Fantasy Island.

“Cheers to you James! You’re our newest best friends!”