Nick &Amp; Eddie Owner Marches to Different Beat

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"I don't know if there is a Swedish connection," he said. "Both my grandparents came from Sweden and settled out in Minnesota. I have blond hair and blue eyes and fit the part of the Midwestern Swede, but I lost my Midwest accent and the last thing I wanted to do was open a Swedish restaurant. Aquavit tried to fill that need." [Aquavit closed its restaurant after struggling for but a few years in Minneapolis.]

"We have an American menu," Anderson said. "Some of the dishes are more Scandinavian in their simplicity, but [Nick] and [Eddie] is simply a very straight-forward American bistro with great music and very good food that's inexpensive. When opening a restaurant, what it becomes is up to you."

"She was one of my best drinking buddies," Anderson said with a laugh. "She could never understand why I wasn't interested in her and I would tell her one, you're a man and two, you're 70 years old."

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Nick &Amp; Eddie Owner Marches to Different Beat

"I don't know if there is a Swedish connection," he said. "Both my grandparents came from Sweden and settled out in Minnesota. I have blond hair and blue eyes and fit the part of the Midwestern Swede, but I lo...

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