Meyvn, Tim Niver’s bagel shop, is almost open | Eater Twin Cities

"I'm excited about the new bagel-by-day/raw-bar-and-Middle-Eastern-fine-dining-by-night restaurant on Bryant and Lake Street that’s plotting an early July opening. The powerhouse ownership team — Tim Niver, Laurel Elmand and chef Adam Eaton — are behind what promises to be the most ambitious deli opening Uptown, and training is happening now with limited-hours test runs planned. It will be counter service with handheld menus: you enter at the corner of Lake Street and Bryant Avenue South, walk right and straight back toward a giant oven (already burning, named for a famous diva and covered in mermaid-shimmering tile) to order at a counter, then step aside with a number while orders are prepared and called; a host will help when it’s busy. Bagels are formed by a hypnotic machine, boiled in 40 gallons of water, lined up on long planks and loaded into the oven to get that good, crispy blistering before being dumped into baskets; initially six varieties will be available — gluten-free (made off-site), plain, cinnamon with turbinado sugar, garlic and onion, poppyseed and everything — and the operation has the capacity to make about 20,000 bagels in a week. At lunch there will be classic deli sandwiches like corned beef and pastrami served with huge sour pickles and Zapp’s potato chips." - Joy Summers