Dorset House restaurant is one of four restaurants in the north central Minnesota hamlet that bills itself as the restaurant capital of the world.
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There are now only two. The restaurant burned to the ground overnight, possibly because of a lightning strike during the outbreak of severe storms.
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The nearby Compañeros was also destroyed.
“We’re just lost,” Dorset Restaurant owner Laura Kempnich tells the Park Rapids Enterprise. “We don’t know what to do.”
(h/t: Amy Rea, who said “they kept that town alive”)