After school programs for youth at Minneapolis Public Schools locations
Promoting families healthy growth and development through education, support and community building.
Minneapolis Kids provides year-round, fee-based, school-age childcare for families with youth enrolled in High Five/Minneapolis Kids Jr through 5th grade during the school year (entering grades K-7 during the summer).
Teen Parent Services is dedicated to keeping teen parents on the track to graduation by providing them with parenting education and supports while providing high-quality early childhood education services to their children.
Adult Enrichment Academics
Adult Enrichment Health, Wellness & Safety
Adult Enrichment Writing
Adult Enrichment Yoga & Mind-Body Practices
Adult Aquatics
See the best of our Minneapolis outdoor athletic facilities as we offer summer sports camps for youth. Young athletes will get a taste of a high school field experience. Don’t miss it as it comes through your neighborhood.
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An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
Spend quality time with your child learning and playing together. Parent discussion will examine topics through the lens of fatherhood. Explore the joys and challenges of being a dad.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
Give the gift of learning. Gift vouchers can be purchased in a variety of denominations and can be used for most Community Education Youth & Adult Enrichment classes. Some restrictions apply.
Please join us for our first private tasting dinner at Vinai! Enjoy our 5-course tasting dinner and learn about Hmong Food from the chefs of Vinai. Hear the stories behind the inspiration of Vinai, the restaurant.
Vinai the restaurant (pronounced VEE-nye) is named after the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand— the place where Chef Yia Vang’s parents met and the place he was born. Ban Vinai, the refugee camp, served as a place of safety, reunification, and restoration. Vinai, the restaurant, serves as a love letter from Yia to his parents. It serves as an homage to Hmong culture and history. And it serves as a place of restoration, a place where we invite you to celebrate, honor, and illuminate stories of your own through the universal language of food. Hmong food draws on the flavors of the Southeast Asian countries that the nomadic Hmong people traveled through. Our menu features modern interpretations of the Hmong family dishes Yia grew up eating including large shared mains, bright veggie sides and bold sauces.
Vinai is located at 1300 NE 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55413.
If event is sold out, please add your names to the waitlist. We will contact you if tickets becomes available.
NOTE: After Feb 15th you may transfer your registration. Refunds less $15 if we are able to fill your spot from our waitlist.
Check out these articles and accolades on Vinai:
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/best-new-restaurants-in-the-world-hot-list-2025 https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263151/vinai/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/dining/best-restaurants-america.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/dining/hmong-minnesota-food.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/dining/hmong-cuisines-minneapolis.html https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a62875489/best-new-restaurants-america-2024/ https://www.eater.com/2024/11/13/24295681/vinai-open-fire-cooking-hmong-chef-yia-vang-minneapolis https://www.startribune.com/restaurant-review-vinai-yia-vang-hmong-american-cuisine/601166955 https://twincities.eater.com/2024/12/3/24299782/eater-awards-winners-twin-cities-minneapolis-st-paul-2024-restaurants https://mspmag.com/eat-and-drink/foodie/restaurants-of-the-year-2024/ https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/featured/homepage-feature/the-best-new-restaurants-of-2024/ https://midwestdesignmag.com/featured/minneapolis-restaurant-vinai-is-a-place-of-joy/
Yia Vang is the Executive Chef and Owner at Vinai. Vang is a trained chef with extensive experience at top restaurants across the Twin Cities. In 2016, Vang started nationally acclaimed Union Hmong Kitchen, a restaurant that features Hmong culture, stories, rituals, foods and flavors that quickly became a community staple in Minnesota. In July 2024, Vang opened Vinai, to serve as a love letter to his parents. Vang spearheads the kitchen at the restaurant and crafts a menu that features classic Hmong dishes that entice people to grab a seat at the table and open their minds to new experiences. Vang has been featured in the New York Times, Nat Geographic, and Bon Appetit, as well as showcased on PBS, CNN, among others. Most recently, Vinai was featured on the New York Times 2024 50 Best Restaurant List and Eater’s 2024 Best New Restaurants in America.
Timmy Truong is the Chef de Cuisine at Vinai. Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Truong became fully immersed in the restaurant industry during his early childhood, lending a hand at his family’s small Vietnamese restaurant, Jasmine Deli, in South Minneapolis. In 2015, Truong attended Le Cordon Bleu Bakery School for Patisserie and Baking. Truong worked his way through various roles in Minneapolis during his culinary career. In 2019, he went on to open his first independent venture, SoulFu, a tie between Southeast Asian cuisine and Southern comfort soul food. In 2022, he opened his second independent concept, Chelas, serving up Vietnamese and Latin tapas before joining Chef Yia Vang as Sous Chef for Union Hmong Kitchen in 2023. Truong went on to join the opening team at Vinai as Chef de Cuisine in summer 2024. In his current role, Truong manages and oversees the day-to-day operations and enjoys working with the team to create new dishes and help develop them into better chefs in the kitchen, and better people outside of the restaurant.
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