Mac's Fish & Chips, Saint Paul

After spending seven seasons with the North Stars, Tom McCarthy finished his career in Boston but still couldn't shake his Minnesota roots. In 1991, he transformed an old St. Paul gas station into a full-fledged fish shack. Father and son Dan and Tom Flanagan have since taken over the operation and grown Mac's into a restaurant, serving hand-battered cuts of fried cod, walleye, and halibut with baskets of hand-cut fries.