"We always looked at that big flag flying when you're coming down the highway. He walked out with the last banana nut muffin, a souvenir of the place where they spent many dates before getting married in 2008. Mac and Jill McGuire drove in for lunch Tuesday from Shakopee after hearing Perkins was closing. By noon Tuesday, the only baked goods left were apple cinnamon muffins. Tuesday, which made Monday the last night with booths full of customers and an empty pie counter. The only Edina restaurant with a longer run than Perkins is the Convention Grill, which remains temporarily closed. The Lakeshore Grill, formerly the Valley View Room, closed in 2020. Perkins, which opened in 1973, is the second landmark restaurant to close in Edina in the last two years. "I would've been 8 years old when I first came here. It's not sweet, just bitter," said Bryan Ernst, 60, who had lunch there Tuesday with his 95-year-old dad, Charlie, visiting from Boston. "It's the end of an era," she said.Īn $85 million, seven-story apartment complex soon will replace Perkins, one of Edina's longest-running eateries and a chain restaurant with a mom-and-pop feel that made it a familiar place for hundreds of thousands of customers over the years. 100 and Eden Avenue, Dowson clocked her last shift. On Tuesday, the final day of business for the popular restaurant at Hwy. Kris Dowson started working at the Edina Perkins in 1979 while she was in high school and living just down the street on Vernon Avenue.
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