Food & Beer
LET'S EAT!
By Dan Greenwood
SOUTHERN MN STYLE Flame Bar & Grill's owner Mike Hobday (left) and daughter Shannon Hobday. The pair have cooked up delicious recipes at the St. Peter bar such as the Thousand Island pizza.
The Flame Bar St. Peter bar and restaurant serves up unique burgers, pizza
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ince 1992, St. Peter’s Flame Bar and Grill has been a popular meeting place for locals and college students. Whether it’s catching the Minnesota Vikings on TV, a place to celebrate a softball game win, or just grabbing a burger and a beer with friends and taking in live music on Friday nights, many customers have been coming here for generations. “We do have customers that have been here since the day we opened up,” said owner Mike Hobday. “We 38 • AUGUST 2021 • MANKATO MAGAZINE
Photos by Pat Christman follow families that we know that we’ve grown up with.” And that applies to his own staff as well. “One guy we had – he worked here and now his kids work here. We see their children grow up and then their kids start working with us.” Hobday added a kitchen about 20 years ago and has been perfecting the menu ever since with homemade pizzas and appetizers. The burgers here have developed a reputation as being among the
best. “We’ve done well with the burgers,” Hobday said. “We have an au jus burger that we’ve done really well with.” With more than a dozen burgers to choose from, there’s something for everyone, from staples such as the California burger and the double bacon cheeseburger to other more unique offerings. “Our big one is our cheese curd burger,” Hobday said. “We run that on a special on Mondays. We do cheese curds on top of the burger
