Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den, Minneapolis

Photo Credit: Tom Wallace, Star Tribune

This is incredible. I must make a pilgrimage someday.

A legendary north Minneapolis dive bar has risen from the dead.

When one of the Twin Cities’ most notorious bars, Stand Up Frank’s, closed earlier this year, I wouldn’t have believed in a million years it would be reopened and reimagined as something called Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den. Real zombies could dig themselves out of the ground and eat my brains before that would happen, because that would be crazy.

By Tom Horgen, Star Tribune

  • pieface

    yes! go there.

    ahh i hope they have cornettos and a cocked winchester behind the bar. fab.

    your gonna have to do a road trip of all these amazing places!

  • pieface

    yes! go there.

    ahh i hope they have cornettos and a cocked winchester behind the bar. fab.

    your gonna have to do a road trip of all these amazing places!

  • melanie

    I went there on Wednesday, its great.

  • melanie

    I went there on Wednesday, its great.

  • Cody N. A.

    Wow I need to find this place and now. I live 20min. away and I haveb’t heard of this. AAAHHRRGGG.

    • Cody N. A.

      Ha; *haven’t. 3 a.m. posts not my thing.

  • Cody N. A.

    Wow I need to find this place and now. I live 20min. away and I haveb’t heard of this. AAAHHRRGGG.

    • Cody N. A.

      Ha; *haven’t. 3 a.m. posts not my thing.

  • Johnny LaFontaine

    So all the barkeeps have to be Pegg’s or Frost’s?

  • Johnny LaFontaine

    So all the barkeeps have to be Pegg’s or Frost’s?

  • Annabelle

    But is it well zombie proofed? My friends and I make a point to choose our drinking places based on a sort of rating system. Lots of windows and difficult to defend entries = bad obviously.

  • Annabelle

    But is it well zombie proofed? My friends and I make a point to choose our drinking places based on a sort of rating system. Lots of windows and difficult to defend entries = bad obviously.

  • broccoli2000

    Speaking of zombies, Shaun gets a mention in an article discussing a mathematical model of a zombie outbreak and how to eradicate zombies if such an event were to occur.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/18/whats-the-best-way-to-fight-zombies-someone-did-the-math/

  • broccoli2000

    Speaking of zombies, Shaun gets a mention in an article discussing a mathematical model of a zombie outbreak and how to eradicate zombies if such an event were to occur.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/18/whats-the-best-way-to-fight-zombies-someone-did-the-math/

  • Slick

    Ahh, PERFECT place for a PeggLegg/Frostitute/Eballer convention!

    • Anonymous

      The term we came up with was “FrostyPeggBallers” 😉

      • pieface

        ah is that *official* then? well reading the frost & pegg blogs i was thinking you could abbreviate F&P to Frogg, but then there’s Edgar, hmm it is tricky. FroggE’s? Freggs?

  • Sarah5636

    Very cool, i love the chairs by the bar their ace It’s got some really good reviews aswell 😀

  • Anonymous

    Very cool, i love the chairs by the bar their ace It’s got some really good reviews aswell 😀

  • Looks awesome!

  • Looks awesome!

  • Slick

    Ahh, PERFECT place for a PeggLegg/Frostitute/Eballer convention!

    • SarahAC

      The term we came up with was “FrostyPeggBallers” 😉

      • pieface

        ah is that *official* then? well reading the frost & pegg blogs i was thinking you could abbreviate F&P to Frogg, but then there’s Edgar, hmm it is tricky. FroggE’s? Freggs?

  • Minneapolis is only three or so hours from where I live.

    I see a pilgrimage of my own in my near future.

  • Minneapolis is only three or so hours from where I live.

    I see a pilgrimage of my own in my near future.

  • Red

    Roadtrip to Minneapolis! My non-American friends can fly in!

  • Red

    Roadtrip to Minneapolis! My non-American friends can fly in!

  • Dylan 37

    This is the bar of my dreams. Screw Cheers. This is a place where everybody knows your name… because your a surviver.

  • Dylan 37

    This is the bar of my dreams. Screw Cheers. This is a place where everybody knows your name… because your a surviver.

  • SarahAC

    That is so incredibly cool.
    I wish I was there right now!

  • Anonymous

    That is so incredibly cool.
    I wish I was there right now!

  • Rob Walker

    That’s a quality work uniform!

  • Rob Walker

    That’s a quality work uniform!

  • angle

    A……….mazing, take me with you and i’ll buy the drinks all night!!!!

  • A……….mazing, take me with you and i’ll buy the drinks all night!!!!

  • tf

    Tarantino’s Top 20 Movies Since 1992. He mentions Shaun of the dead 4:24.

  • tf

    Tarantino’s Top 20 Movies Since 1992. He mentions Shaun of the dead 4:24.

  • Holly

    They have red on them

  • Holly

    They have red on them

  • Cody

    Wow. Surely they have some specialty drinks. Shaun Slammer. Ed Bomb. Pete’s Punch. I’ll have a Dog’s Can’t Look Up, please! Etc. And huge supplies of Hog Lumps on hand at all times.

    • Cody

      Forgot to say very well done, lads! Cheers.

  • Cody

    Wow. Surely they have some specialty drinks. Shaun Slammer. Ed Bomb. Pete’s Punch. I’ll have a Dog’s Can’t Look Up, please! Etc. And huge supplies of Hog Lumps on hand at all times.

    • Cody

      Forgot to say very well done, lads! Cheers.

  • FairyGodmoose

    WIN.

  • FairyGodmoose

    WIN.

  • Amber

    AA! Zombie Den…That’s unbelievablely Awesome!!

  • AmberGrindstaff

    AA! Zombie Den…That’s unbelievablely Awesome!!