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Crafty move: Stone Arch is set to open this summer |
USA. A craft beer restaurant celebrating Minnesota’s thriving brewing industry is to open at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.
Stone Arch will be located in the Airport Mall near the entrance to Concourse F, in the former Chili’s space. Concessionaire Aero Service Group will operate the restaurant.
Through a partnership with the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, the outlet will showcase a wide variety of the state’s beers, both on tap and bottled. It will receive newly released and limited beers before wide distribution, and in some cases will be the only place to try a new beer outside of its home brewery.
The venue will also feature a “˜Stone Arch Craft Lab’, described as “a bar within the bar”, where customers can take part in beer tastings and classes hosted by brew masters and craft experts from around the state.
The food menu will feature “made-from-scratch” dishes using locally-sourced and sustainable ingredients, according to the airport. An accompanying craft market will sell freshly-made sandwiches, salads and healthy snacks as well as retail merchandise from the Minnesota breweries represented in the bar.
Stone Arch is scheduled to open in summer 2016. It is the first to have a signed contract of the 50 new restaurant, retail, and convenience and news concepts recently selected at the airport’s Terminal 1.
