You walk into a restaurant.

These are the first three things you see:

{ 1 } A framed mini-dress made from recycled Campbell’s Soup can labels.

{ 2 } A poster advertising a Big Lebowski-themed Halloween bowling party.

{ 3 } A table of merrily drunkified men loudly proclaiming themselves “the douchebags!”

You think to yourself, “am I in a self-consciously quirky dive bar populated by irritating hipsters in Uptown Minneapolis?”

Relax, friend. You are not. You’re at The Red Stag Supper Club in Northeast Minneapolis. Your friends are close by. Candles illuminate the room. And you’re about to have a rosehip-infused gimlet and seeded rolls spread with white bean butter. Everything’s fine.

And while your waitress might get a little OCD about seating thirteen people at a table meant for twelve, it’s only because she cares … she really, really cares.

Besides being the first LEED-certified restaurant in Minnesota, The Red Stag also boasts an unmissable “Cheap Date Night” special: a bottle of wine, two entrees, and dessert for $32 per couple, every Tuesday. I want to find a girlfriend immediately, solely to partake in such a recession-tastic offering.

Oh, and did I mention they make a chocolate cake infused with Guinness? Because they do. You should probably go. Pretty much right now.

(Photo via Studio 2030)