So, I am about to tell you all how old I am by writing this blog post and that might be the only negative I have for you all here today.

This past weekend was my 20th High School Class Reunion. Yes, I graduated from high school when I was a mere 10 years old, haha. As one of the planners, I was responsible for helping to find a venue for our reunion night. I had heard many good things about Stella's Fish Cafe in Uptown, however I had never been there before when I started planning our event. I was almost instantly sold on the venue when I read their website and they wrote about 'if you are thinking of a VFW come check us out'. Well, done! I knew I was looking for a nice place at VFW prices so, I checked them out.

The moment I saw the place, their event spaces, and met their event coordinator, Erin Mackley I knew we had a winner. From the moment we started planning the reunion Erin made everything smooth and stress-free. She welcomed all my questions and answered all of my phone calls and emails quickly, and there were a lot of them! She even helped me surprise my husband, my much older husband, on his 40th Birthday with personalized menus wishing him a happy 40th birthday. That night was the first time I got to first hand experience their serving staff and their menu. Once again, I was pleasantly surprised at how good the food was, how great the prices were and how friendly yet professional the staff was.

The Thursday before the reunion was my first experience with Stella's Rooftop Deck. Wow, the views are incredible and only add to the fantastic food and service you get there. Once again Erin was there, greeted me and my friends and welcomed us. On Saturday was the main event, the reunion, and once again I was greeted with great service when I got there. We had a private room with our own private bar and bartenders and service staff for our reunion. While I was setting up, both of our bartenders came over and introduced themselves to us and welcomed us as did our servers. All with smiles and firm handshakes and asked if there was anything they could help us with.

I was even more impressed that evening when we had 75 people who RSVP'd bulge into 112 people and we quickly were sent scrambling for more food. Once again Erin and her event staff handled themselves professionally and quickly ordered us more food and got it out there in less than 20 minutes looking and tasting just as good as the rest and I don't think any of the guests had a clue.

We had some bumps along the road of planning and in each time, the issues were handled quickly and after everything, I have to say, I would highly recommend Stella's Fish Cafe to anyone having a party, reunion, or whatever. My husband and I have been talking for years that we had lost all of our favorite eating spots from when we were dating and didn't have a good 'date' restaurant anymore. I do believe we have been sold on Stella's and we will continue to visit that restaurant hopefully for years to come. I can't wait to try out their Crab Lovers and Lobster Lovers nights with the children.

So, this is my very public, "Thank You" to Stella's Fish Cafe, Erin Mackley and all their staff for making this reunion by far the best one yet. My only regret is that I don't have anymore events to plan you with all right now!

For those of you who don't know where Stella's is, they are located in Uptown right on Lake Street across from Calhoun Square. They have valet parking or you can park in the parking lot across the street or street parking, just don't forget your quarters, we got a ticket Saturday night, haha.
They take reservations or you can just walk in, each time you will be greeted at the door and most times, there was an employee who opened and held the door for me, once again class all the way there. They have 2 private rooms, a semi-private area inside and you can reserve an area on their rooftop deck too for your event.
Their food selection is amazing, I love that they post where their seafood comes from and you can pick out your own lobster out of the tank.
Which, reminds me of another great thing about the place, when I went in there to sign contracts, I had my children with and Erin took the time to show them the Lobsters and even showed them the difference between a boy lobster and a girl lobster. They have been asking to go back ever since.

Have fun, go enjoy the outdoors and the views of downtown Minneapolis and try something new.