For Auggies Jasha Johnston ’00 and Carrie McCabe-Johnston ’02, being history and English majors turned out to be the perfect recipe for opening one of Minneapolis’ most popular new restaurants, Nightingale. Opened in October 2012, the restaurant, in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, features small plates and an extensive late-night menu.
“It’s a chef-driven restaurant focusing on high-quality, local, sustainable ingredients, trying to do interesting food, but keep the prices accessible to the community,” says Johnston, who met McCabe-Johnston during her first year at Augsburg.
“We met at Augsburg, and fell in love in Urness Tower,” said Johnston. After Augsburg, “her dad put me to work in a bar, so I bartended, using my history degree quite well behind the bar, and my sociology studies helped in that as well. My philosophy and religion minors didn’t hurt either! My liberal arts education definitely helped me throughout life.”
Nightingale is open Tuesday-Saturday from 4 pm-2am, and open for brunch on Sundays from 10 am-2pm. For more information, check out www.nightingalempls.com.