Abulae

I recently attended a wedding at A’BULAE and everything was amazing!
The rooftop is awesome and the event space itself is unlike any venues I’ve been to in the Twin Cities — very modern and chic. The food was DELISH! Parking was really easy too! (I worry about parking downtown, but the venue is attached to a parking ramp!)
Overall a fun wedding and really funny bartenders!

I completely agree with the below reviewer Sai D!!!
Sorry I did not write this review sooner, when it happened a year ago!
Although the venue is gorgeous, at the end, the food was TERRIBLE for how much it cost and you can’t use any other caterer. The worst part was that the bar tenders were rude and the venue staff did nothing about it regardless of complaints. Instead they turned around and SHUT DOWN THE WEDDING AT 9:30PM! When they already received payment through midnight.
The venue refused to issue a refund for the hours not used. If you are going to spend the kind of money you would at this place, go with a venue that has a long standing reputation of excellence and committment to making sure the bride and groom have the night of their life; they certainly are paying for it!
If I could i give NO STARS to a venue that forced ended the night of a lifetime that can never be repeated again.

1) You will get nickel and dime’d to no end and it’s NOT worth it. The place just looks classy, but none of the service quality is remotely so.
2) Mintahoe is hands down terrible, and even more disgusting when you consider the prices they charge. Everything tastes too surgary, like it was recently taken out of a can, freezer, or microwave. They clearly have no incentive to improve by how tightly they lock you in with the contract, and how expensive an outside caterer would be. It’s really a shame that a venue so beautiful would create such a harrowing experience for a bridal party. If you want to be sweating bullets until the last second about whether the food quality will match up to the glamor of the venue, then go for it. The best result will be mediocre.
3) As our struggles started, our other vendors began admitting to us their reservations regarding Abulae, and shared stories of other clients they had who really struggled with their experience as well. This came up OVER and OVER again… but it was too late for us.
And oh yea, you might encounter an incredibly rude bar tender or two.
In closing, don’t buy the sweet talk and please don’t sign the contract. The «details» meeting they host for you is nothing for a 90 minute waste of your time as they try to sell you more bottom of the barrel quality products from Bellagala. It’s actually nothing related to planning and organizing your affair.
Any place that makes you pay full price up front strips you of any bargaining power, and that is exactly what I wish we were not so naïve about.

I LOVE this venue! I’m a wedding photographer and whenever a bride and groom tell me their wedding is at A’Bulae, I get super excited! They have a beautiful bridal suite for getting ready, a great reception room that can also be used as an indoor ceremony room, or the rooftop can be used as an outdoor ceremony site! Absolutely stunning, and I love the variety of locations in the building and nearby to take the bride and groom, along with the bridal party for some photos! Highly recommend!