M.B. Haskett has held down a corner of South Phillips Avenue long enough to watch downtown Sioux Falls reinvent itself a few times over — and it keeps showing up looking sharper than whatever replaced the place next door.
This is a cafe and restaurant that earns the word "historic" without leaning on it. The menu moves through brunch, lunch, and dinner with a kitchen that takes locally-sourced ingredients seriously — eggs done properly, sandwiches built with actual thought, dinner plates that belong on a date night table. The wine selection and craft cocktails aren't afterthoughts, and neither is the coffee. It's the kind of place that handles a weekday lunch and a special occasion with equal composure.
No other downtown Sioux Falls restaurant quite occupies this specific register — upscale casual without the performance anxiety, a dining room that's genuinely comfortable rather than just decorated to look it. The food does the work without requiring you to decode a concept. You sit down, the room has history in it, and the meal is worth what you paid.