Matt's Bar is a restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

 in South Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. It is known as one of two businesses that created the Jucy Lucy

Jucy Lucy

A Jucy Lucy or Juicy Lucy is a cheeseburger having the cheese inside the meat patty rather than on top. A piece of cheese is surrounded by raw meat and cooked until it melts, resulting in a molten core of cheese within the patty...

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This bar was opened in 1954
, in 1998 Scott Nelson purchased the bar from the original owner Matt Bristol.

In a 1998 City Pages article, Cheryl Bristol, the daughter of bar founder and namesake Matt Bristol, told of how one day in 1954, a customer asked a cook to put two hamburger patties together and seal up some cheese in the middle. When the customer bit down on the novel concoction, he was heard to exclaim, "That's one juicy Lucy!"

This place has been made into art by Michael Birawer

Michael Birawer

Michael Birawer is an American artist. Born and based in St. Paul, Minnesota, he is known for his three-dimensional, surrealist paintings of urban settings and their inhabitants.- Artwork :...

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