What to do in Fargo-Moorhead…

Things to do while in Fargo-Moorhead? We’ll start with food first…

Places to eat:

Asian:
1) Yuki-Hana Sushi (1450 25th St S) - the best sushi in town
2) Grand Buffet (1620 32nd Ave) or King House Buffet (122 Broadway) - the best Chinese buffets in town
3) Nine Dragons (3228 13th Ave S) - good place to order the menu items, but I would avoid the buffet
DO NOT: eat at the Giant Panda.

American:
1) Kroll’s Diner (1570 32nd Ave S & 1033 45th St SW) - great place to “sit down un eat”
2) Monty’s Downtown (220 Broadway) - I still haven’t been to Monty’s but only hear good things about it (for Fargo it may be on the ’spendy’ side of things)
3) The Bison Turf (1211 University Dr N) - a dive bar with good food, their bison burger (yes, with actually bison meat) is the best in town.
4) HoDo (101 Broadway) - expensive but good, their bison burger is very good as well.
5) We do have the normal chain restaurants as well; Olive Garden, TGI Fridays, Chili’s, Hooter’s, Ground Round, Applebee’s, Famous Dave’s, Doolittles, Ruby Tuesday, Perkins, Denny’s, Bennigan’s, and Buffalo Wild Wing’s. My fav of the chains is B-dubs.

Coffee:
1) Atomic Coffee (222 Broadway) - the newest of the 3 F-M locations is on Broadway, my preferred location was the old 4th St in Moorhead. Alas it was torn down to accommodate the new Main Ave bridge.
2) Babb’s Coffee House (315 Broadway) - chill place on the corner of Broadway and Main. Good place to begin/end a stroll through Island Park.
3) National chains (almost everywhere) - we have either a Caribou or Starbucks on every block (or what seems like it). At any one time you shouldn’t be too far from caffeinat-ion…

Italian:
1) Toscana Restaurant (202 Broadway N) - the food is pretty awesome, the owner/chef is from the east coast and does italian ‘right’.
2) Ristorante’ Isabella (612 1st Ave N) - I haven’t been here yet, but have heard some good things.

Other:
Mexican: Acapulco (1303 34th St. SW) - the best and most authentic Mexican you can get in town (or almost anywhere in the midwest I think).
Mediterranean: Santa Lucia (1109 38th St. S.) - I haven’t been here yet, but it has received consistent great reviews throughout its 20-some year history.



Art/Theatre:
1) Fargo Theatre (314 Broadway) - first run independent films among other things, check out their website for more info.
2) Plains Art Museum (704 1st Ave N) or Rourke Art Museum (521 Main Ave Moorhead) - yes, we have 2 art museums. I haven’t been to either but have always wanted to go… never seem to find the time.
3) NDSU / MSUM Fine Arts - when you have two large (12k and 8k student) universities in town you get the added benefit of their fine arts program (of course they tend to be more seasonal).

Attractions:
1) Fargo Air Museum (1609 19th Avenue North) - not a huge museum, but definitely interesting and the only one in ND. We also have the only Air Sho (yes, without the ‘w’) in ND, it typically occurs every 2 years.
2) Thunder Road Family Fun Park (2902 Thunder Road (frontage road I-29)) - in operation when weather allows, it is a go-cart and mini-golf amusement park. Its signature is an erupting volcano.
3) Hjemkomst Center (202 First Ave N Moorhead) & Bonanzaville (1351 West Main Ave in West Fargo) - good places to visit to discover some of the history of the Red River Valley region.

Shopping:
1) Broadway (from Main Ave to 5th St N) - the boutique part of town where you’ll tend to find more one-of-a-kind items and top end brands (ie Coach).
2) West Acres Shopping Center (I-29 & 13th Avenue S) - the largest mall in the state and the ’shopping mecca’ of ND. It is also the center of the West Acres area of town, that generally refers to the 13th Ave corridor and all the shops on it (Target, Walmart, Toy-r-us, Kohls, and numerous strip malls).
3) Scheels (45th St & 15th Ave S) - this store claims to be “the world’s largest all sport store” and is a shopping attraction onto itself. It is the flagship store of the Fargo headquartered sporting goods retailer and the backside of the store is actually the companies corporate headquarters.

Sports:
1) Bison Athletics (gobison.com) - the largest university in town and the only Division I program in ND (until fall 2008). Our football program is nationally ranked and many of our other programs and student athletes are nationally recognized.
2) Redhawks Baseball (1515 15th Ave N) - a member of the Northern League, they are always a perennial favorite to make the playoffs and have 3 championships.
3) Fargo Marathon - established in 2005 there were 9,000 participants in 2007. Not too bad for relatively new marathon .

Well, that’s all I can come up with for now. Fargo may not be Minneapolis or New York, but we try and keep ourselves amused