WILLIAMS, Minn. – Out on the ice in Zippel Bay is perhaps the world’s only igloo bar. Nick Painovich, owner, got it open this season for the Vikings-Packers game. The bar is within walking distance of the Zippel Bay fish house village. Painovich holds a license as a mobile food court. How about power out on the bay? Painovich has a gas generator for warm toddies and food and hot and cold water. Yes, the lavatories are heated. Waste water gets hauled to shore in holding tanks. Truth be told, the igloo isn’t actually an igloo.. It’s more a tent that looks like an igloo with windows and of course, a big-screen TV.
How ‘bout a cold one. “Or, 007, a Martini, no ice, shaken, not stirred?”
Where?
Twenty miles southeast of Warroad on Lake of the Woods.