What is it with Minneapolis museum restaurants?

First the Walker Art Center's Gather drops its lunch service. Now Grain Stack, the newly remade restaurant at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (and a significant improvement from its predecessor) is going on summer vacation.

"Our new food service model is based on being financially sustainable, so when our traffic is slower (such as this summer), we won't operate the mezzanine-level restaurant, as it would require us to subsidize the operation and that is not the best use of our contributed resources," reads a memorandum to museum staff and volunteers.

The restaurant is managed by Stock and Badge, the partnership between Dogwood Coffee Co. and Rustica.

"After the success of the MIA + Stock and Badge's Grain Stack operation which served thousands of MIA visitors during the Rock the Cradle, Art in Bloom, and Matisse: Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art, the mezzanine-level restaurant will now close for the summer effective Tuesday, June 10," reads the statement.

Fear not, hungry art lovers: Stock and Badge's other MIA food-and-drink operations will remain open, including the Dogwood Coffee bar (and its great two-for-one craft beer happy hour) and the family-friendly, grab-and-go Half Pint, both located in the museum's lobby.