# Food & Dining search demand in Minneapolis-St. Paul THE SEARCH LEDGER · MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA · FOOD & DINING Every month Minneapolis-St. Paul types 983,620 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/minneapolis-st-paul/food-dining#colophon) 566 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026 983,620 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026 $642K MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.24 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Minneapolis-St. Paul searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUL and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 62, February 64, March 74, April 76, May 89, June 89, July 100, August 92, September 82, October 91, November 77, December 65. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Minneapolis-St. Paul — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Minneapolis-St. Paul pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 566 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“pizza lucé uptown minneapolis mn”** at $3.80. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 450,000 | $0.49 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | coffee shops near me | 60,500 | $0.66 | 0 | transactional | | 3 | bars near me | 49,500 | $0.38 | 0 | transactional | | 4 | pizza near me | 33,100 | $1.37 | 12 | transactional | | 5 | hen house eatery minneapolis | 22,200 | $0.55 | | branded | | 6 | mpls restaurants | 18,100 | $0.87 | 34 | commercial | | 7 | restaurantes en minneapolis | 18,100 | $0.87 | | branded | | 8 | surly brewery minneapolis | 18,100 | $0.44 | 19 | commercial | | 9 | utepils brewery minneapolis | 12,100 | $0.46 | 0 | commercial | | 10 | best mpls restaurants | 9,900 | $0.90 | 1 | commercial | | 11 | nicollet diner minneapolis minnesota | 9,900 | $0.33 | 0 | commercial | | 12 | ie restaurant minneapolis | 8,100 | $0.62 | 23 | commercial | | 13 | jax cafe minneapolis | 8,100 | $0.83 | 7 | commercial | | 14 | bauhaus brewery minneapolis | 8,100 | $0.14 | 7 | commercial | | 15 | al's breakfast dinkytown | 6,600 | $0.06 | 6 | commercial | | 16 | longfellow grill minneapolis | 6,600 | $0.84 | | branded | | 17 | northloop restaurants | 6,600 | $0.72 | | commercial | | 18 | pizza lucé uptown minneapolis mn | 6,600 | $3.80 | 8 | commercial | | 19 | dakota restaurant minneapolis | 5,400 | $0.19 | 11 | commercial | | 20 | hi lo diner minneapolis | 5,400 | $0.67 | 1 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Minneapolis-St. Paul food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 450,000/mo · $0.49 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Klassics Kitchen + Cocktails 4.8★ 1,100 - 2 Hen House Eatery 4.6★ 6,600 - 3 Giulia 4.2★ 558 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 tripadvisor.com - 2 minneapolisnorthwest.com - 3 twincities.eater.com - 4 yelp.com - 5 spoonandstable.com pizza near me 33,100/mo · $1.37 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 Mother Clucker's Pizza 4.2★ 751 - 2 Tono Pizzeria + Cheesesteaks 4.9★ 145 - 3 Pizza Lucé Downtown 4.4★ 3,900 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 tripadvisor.com - 2 pizzaluce.com LOCAL - 3 parkwaypizzamn.com LOCAL - 4 reddit.com - 5 yelp.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Minneapolis-St. Paul The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | The Breakfast Club MPLS | 4.9 ★ | 21,702 | Breakfast | YES | | #2 | The Breakfast Club MPLS | 4.9 ★ | 21,702 | Breakfast | YES | | #3 | Cossetta | 4.6 ★ | 12,646 | Italian | YES | | #4 | Tom's Watch Bar - Minneapolis | 4.9 ★ | 11,973 | New American | YES | | #5 | Tom's Watch Bar - Minneapolis | 4.9 ★ | 11,973 | Bar | YES | | #6 | Hell's Kitchen Inc. | 4.4 ★ | 7,498 | American | YES | | #7 | Hell's Kitchen Inc. | 4.4 ★ | 7,498 | American | YES | | #8 | Hell's Kitchen Inc. | 4.4 ★ | 7,498 | American | YES | | #9 | Hen House Eatery | 4.6 ★ | 6,633 | American | YES | | #10 | Hen House Eatery | 4.6 ★ | 6,633 | American | YES | | #11 | Hen House Eatery | 4.6 ★ | 6,633 | American | YES | | #12 | Hen House Eatery | 4.6 ★ | 6,633 | American | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Minneapolis-St. Paul searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. hen house eatery minneapolis 22,200/mo restaurantes en minneapolis 18,100/mo longfellow grill minneapolis 6,600/mo up coffee minneapolis 3,600/mo zakia deli minneapolis 3,600/mo marhaba grill minneapolis 2,900/mo conga latin bistro minneapolis 2,400/mo kiku bistro minneapolis 2,400/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Minneapolis-St. Paul asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Minneapolis-St. Paul food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are the must-try restaurants in Minneapolis? What are the best restaurants in St. Paul, MN? What are some good places to eat in Minneapolis? What are some good places to eat in North Minneapolis? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? What is the best pizza in Minneapolis? What is the best pizza in Port St. Lucie? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Minneapolis-St. Paul search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota · Food & Dining · 566 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 566 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. If a number here is wrong, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact). --- Canonical page: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/minneapolis-st-paul/food-dining Every metro: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities Data reuse license: https://seobandwagon.com/data-license Site overview for agents: https://seobandwagon.com/llms.txt · API docs: https://seobandwagon.com/docs/api