Rochester and its world class medical facility, The Mayo Clinic, b oasts minor league sports teams, professional music ensembles, regional theaters and many recreational facilities. The Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area is just about an hours drive to the north. This metropolitan area with its suburbs is home to professional sports teams, musical entertainment of all kinds and some of the best theater in the country. Of course there are a multitude of artistic and leisure activities that comes with a major metropolitan area. Finally this whole area boasts some of the best food available anywhere from simple midwestern home cooking to ethnic foods and dinning spanning the range from very casual to formal.
Many ethnic festivals feature delicious foods from all corners of the world.