Shake Shack

This quality-driven burger chain chose the mall for its first (and, to date, only) Minnesota outlet, and it’s a cut above the complex’s seemingly bottomless fast-food pool. The nostalgia-invoking burgers are a clear cut above their McDonald’s brethren, and the rest of the menu follows that example, from the lavishly topped hot dogs to the crispy crinkle fries. The fried chicken sandwich is tops in its class, and the shakes, floats and cones are built with diet-wrecking frozen custard. The location is a bonus, adjacent to the mall’s new (and here are four words that rarely go together) great-looking food court.