Red Star suppresses crime info related to premier restaurant closing

Hat Tip: Anti-Strib

When Minneapolis used to be a desireable city in which to live and be entertained, many of the finest restaurants were located downtown. The venerable Murray's Steakhouse, for example, has been there for years, and is hanging in to this day. The most celebrated of all restaurants, however, was Goodfellows. It was nationally ranked with four French stars, or something like that. It's a place at which the rich and powerful would have dinner.

That is, until recently. Goodfellows has closed. According to this Red Star article, the reasons vary:

A movement away from high-end dining was one reason for the restaurant's demise, [co-owner] Kostroski said.

And this:

Changes in the City Center tenant mix -- more office, less retail -- as well as disruptive construction in the building also took its toll on the restaurant, Kostroski said. Goodfellow's is the third restaurant to depart the center in the past few months. TGI Friday's closed after its 10-year lease expired, and Copeland's was one of four outlets to shut down in a corporate downsizing.

Fair enough. Anything else? Let's check the [Minneapolis] Skyway News article:

Goodfellows Managing Partner Wayne Kostroski cited construction and City Center's changing vision, as well as "real and perceived public safety issues" in the immediate Downtown area as reason for the closing.

Whoa. We didn't read that in the Red Star. There's more:

Kostroski also cited Downtown crime. In December, a bullet struck - but did not penetrate - a restaurant window.

"Who would expect that if you're sitting eating dinner in what is advertised as a quality building that there would be any inkling that bullets would be a factor?" Kostroski asked.

A few months later, Downtown police announced stepped-up patrols on a "hot spot" bordered by Hennepin Avenue, Nicollet Mall and 7th and 8th streets - which Goodfellows faces on 7th.

The Skyway News prints what the Red Star won't. You folks who subscribe to and read the Red Star probably aren't aware of the amount of editing they do in the name of political correctness, at the expense of your safety. All you have to do is read the Rambix and the Red Star archives to find documentation of suppression of important information and manipulative editing. Fortunately, you now have Anti-Strib, Powerline, and Rambix and the Red Star, among others, to point out their deception.