Amenities

Gift shop

The Meadows Gift Shop & Café, staffed by Methodist Hospital Service League volunteers, is located near the hospital’s Excelsior Boulevard entrance. Many gifts are available, including fresh flowers, plants, slippers, stuffed animals, cards, toiletries magazines and jewelry.

The Meadows Gift Shop & Café is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., weekdays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays; noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Closed on holidays.

If you wish to send flowers or a gift to someone in the hospital, call the gift shop at 952-993-5131.

General Store @ Park Nicollet

The store features newspapers, magazines, greeting cards, stamps, Park Nicollet logo and personal care products, and “grab and go” food and drinks. It is located near the Louisiana Avenue entrance.

Places to eat

Several meal or snack options are offered at the hospital.

• Creeksedge Cafeteria – 1st floor. Hot entrees, grilled items, soup, sandwiches, salads, desserts and more. It is open during the following hours: breakfast – 6:30 to 10 a.m.; lunch – 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. daily, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. weekends; dinner – 4:30 to 7 p.m. (hot food service closes at 6:30 p.m.).
• Coffee Express – 1st floor, Heart and Vascular Center. Hot and cold beverages. Open 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
• Muffin Man Café – Meadowbrook Building. Soups, salads, hot and cold beverages and baked items. Open 6:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and closed weekends.
• The Meadows Gift Shop & Café  – 1st floor. Breakfast, lunch and "Grab n' Go" foods. Open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, closed Sundays and holidays.
• Vending machines are open 24 hours, seven days a week. Vending areas are located on the hospital's 1st floor near the Creeksedge Cafeteria and on ground floor near the hospital's main elevators. The main-floor vending area has snacks; coffee and candy machines; a fruit, sandwich and soup dispenser; microwave ovens, coin changer and cash machine. Soft drink machines are located near the Methodist Hospital elevators on ground, 2nd and 4th floors.