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RIP Mama D
A Minnesota resteraunteur passes away: Mama D served up love with her red sauce.
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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
My parents would take me to Mama D's as well. Good times.
94 is one hell of a run.
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...
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.
I ate at her place a few times, saw her once. Good traditional red-sauce Italian fare.
Two days before St. Joseph's Day.
RIP Mama D., a true character of the Twin Cities!
Champs, if memory serves, Sammy D's was in the building that now houses the Library Bar.
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
They also had a place in the midway area (off of University) and in Arden Hills.
That's the one I went to, ano
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