RIP Mama D

submitted by Max Sparber

Mar 18 2009 — 8:44am

A Minnesota resteraunteur passes away: Mama D served up love with her red sauce.

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11 Reader Comments

ryanl Mar 18 2009
9:10 am

Son of a B*tch Momma D was a true hero to me…when I was a young lad my parents would take me over to her restaurant. I wasn’t into the whole pasta and sauce thing yet and threw a little fit.

She asked what I liked and I said Mac n Cheese but it wasn’t on the menu. She came back out with a plate of the best whole made Mac n Cheese I have ever eaten to this day.

RIP Momma D

Ed Kohler Mar 18 2009
11:47 am

My parents would take me to Mama D’s as well. Good times.

94 is one hell of a run.

champs Mar 18 2009
11:56 am

My only memory of Mama D’s is my family’s wasting of a perfectly good summer evening trying to find the place. I don’t remember exactly when it was, but it was a long, futile drive for the sake of my parents’ nostalgia.

Can anyone identify the old Dinkytown location (if there is anything to see)? I couldn’t have been more more than six years old when this happened and I’d love to know if my memory is anything like reality…

ryanl Mar 18 2009
1:53 pm

All I really remember is that there was a dingy scary old stairway that was dimly lit and had creaky stairs down to the basement. It was pretty scary when I was a 4 year old.

justpbob Mar 18 2009
2:19 pm

I ate at her place a few times, saw her once. Good traditional red-sauce Italian fare.

mjm Mar 18 2009
3:19 pm

Two days before St. Joseph’s Day.

RIP Mama D., a true character of the Twin Cities!

mjm Mar 18 2009
3:20 pm

Champs, if memory serves, Sammy D’s was in the building that now houses the Library Bar.

Amendment X Mar 18 2009
7:30 pm

Champs-
There were two places she and Sammy had:
The first was on the north side of 4th St S.E. next to Post Office between 14 and 15th. Don’t remember what it is now. I think maybe US Bank.
The second was on the NE corner of 13th and 4th St S.E. kitty corner from the Campus Theater.
I’ve written an obituary about Mama http://short.to/2ih6

Anonymous Mar 19 2009
8:52 am

They also had a place in the midway area (off of University) and in Arden Hills.

justpbob Mar 19 2009
8:57 am

That’s the one I went to, ano

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