Dakota

Live Music Dining Venuedakotacooks.com

Dakota is a Minneapolis-based, privately held hospitality venue founded in 1985 that operates a combined live music, chef-driven dining, and private events business under the dakotacooks.com brand.

Company typePrivate
Founded1985
HeadquartersMinneapolis, United States
Headcount—
GTM typeB2C
OfferingServices

What Dakota does

Dakota is a for-profit, privately held hospitality venue headquartered in Minneapolis, United States, operating under the website dakotacooks.com. Its short description states that the company "presents live music performances alongside a chef-driven dining menu and hosts private events," indicating a multi-revenue-stream operating model built around a single physical location. The business was founded in 1985, giving it multi-decade operating history in the Minneapolis market.

The company's product surface comprises three integrated lines: (1) ticketed live music performances, (2) chef-driven dining service, and (3) private event hosting. No underlying technology stack, proprietary platform, digital product, or software component is documented in the supplied data — the venue website returned only a verification/loader page with no substantive product, menu, pricing, or capacity information. Consequently, there is no observable platform, app, or integration layer described.

The revenue model is not disclosed but is inferable as a combination of per-cover food and beverage sales, ticket revenue from live performances, and private-event fees. No pricing tiers, average ticket, average check, capacity, occupancy, or comparable benchmarks are provided. No named customers, customer segments, management team, funding history, ownership structure, subsidiaries, partnerships, or certifications are documented. The dataset is effectively limited to firmographic identifiers plus an empty operational record, so any quantitative claim beyond the descriptive firmographics would be unsupported.

Dakota firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Dakota
Website: https://dakotacooks.com
Company type: Private
Founded year: 1985
Operating status: Operating
Short description: Dakota is a Minneapolis-based, privately held hospitality venue founded in 1985 that operates a combined live music, chef-driven dining, and private events business under the dakotacooks.com brand.
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Dakota industry classification

Industry

Product category: Live Music Dining Venue
NAICS: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71), Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (71111)
SIC: Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)
akta.pro primary industry: Live Music Clubs & Venues (MPAGAIAB)
akta.pro secondary industries: Live Music Venues & Concert Bars (THAFAEAD), Venue & Facility Reservations (Private Rooms, Event Spaces) (HSACALAJ)

Keywords

Live music venue
Chef-driven dining
Private event hosting
Jazz club restaurant
Entertainment hospitality

Where Dakota is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Minneapolis
HQ country: United States
HQ region: North America

Markets served

Dakota business model

Business model

GTM type: B2C
Offering type: Services
Cost components: Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Dakota product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Dakota is a Minneapolis-based hospitality venue that presents live music performances alongside a chef-driven dining menu, and also hosts private events for groups and organizations. The establishment combines a restaurant, a live entertainment room, and event-hosting capabilities into a single on-premise experience founded in 1985.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

Live Music Performances
Chef-Driven Dining Menu
Private Event Hosting

Companies that use Dakota

Customer profile

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Dakota technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Dakota competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

The Fillmore: Live Nation-operated music venue brand that pairs live performances with bar/food service and hosts private/corporate events; a direct comparability for ticketed live music and private-event hosting.
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Multi-venue jazz presenting organization combining ticketed performances with dining components (e.g., Jazz at Lincoln Center's restaurant/club concepts) comparable to Dakota's programming-plus-dining structure.
Iridium: NYC jazz club pairing live music nightly with full dinner service in an intimate supper-club format — a direct analog in scale, format, and customer use case.
City Winery: Multi-location venue combining a working winery, chef-driven dining, and ticketed live music performances with private-event hosting — the closest direct analog to Dakota's music-plus-dining-plus-events model.
Cafe Carlyle: Long-running cabaret/dinner-show venue inside a hotel pairing intimate live performances with upscale dining — closely mirrors Dakota's chef-driven-plus-live-music positioning in a different market.
Blue Note: Iconic jazz club and supper-club concept with locations in NYC and elsewhere, combining ticketed live performances with full dinner service and private events.

Broad incumbents

House of Blues: Live Nation-owned chain of music venues with full bars and restaurant service, offering the most direct scaled analog of music-plus-dining that Dakota operates at a single venue.

Others

Dining at the Dakota (if competitor): Self-reference placeholder — included to flag that no directly Minneapolis-located competitor surfaced with confidence in this space; the comparison set is dominated by NYC/coastal venues.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Dakota financial estimates

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Dakota leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Dakota funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Dakota M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Dakota

What does Dakota do?

When was Dakota founded?

Dakota was founded in 1985.

Where is Dakota based?

Dakota is headquartered in Minneapolis, United States, in the North America region.

Who are Dakota's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are The Fillmore, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Iridium, City Winery, Cafe Carlyle and Blue Note. House of Blues is listed as a broad incumbent. Dining at the Dakota (if competitor) is listed as an others.

Does Dakota have an API?

No public API is recorded for Dakota.

What industry is Dakota in?

Dakota's product category is Live Music Dining Venue. Its primary akta.pro industry code is MPAGAIAB, Live Music Clubs & Venues, with a secondary code of THAFAEAD, Live Music Venues & Concert Bars. Its NAICS code is 71 and its SIC code is 7990.