Restaurants, cafes & breweries in the Twin Ports

The 218 TapHouse is on the Highway 33 commercial strip at the south end of Cloquet, among the chain restaurants and the retail that serves the whole C...

2540 Coffee House sits on Belknap Street, the road that carries most of Superior's everyday errands and runs from the university out to the US 2 and 5...

The 310 Pub is on South Lake Avenue in Canal Park, sharing a building line with Cloud 9 and a short walk from the Lakewalk. Canal Park has two kinds o...

A & Dubs is a small burger place on West 3rd Street, up the hill from the Lincoln Park craft district and well outside the part of the neighborhood th...

The Alpine Bar is the neighborhood tavern on the Commonwealth Avenue strip in Gary-New Duluth, and the closest thing the far west end of Duluth has to...

Amity Coffee is the morning anchor of the Lakeside business block, at 4429 East Superior Street. It takes its name from Amity Creek, the stream that r...

Applebee's is on Miller Trunk Highway in the Miller Hill corridor, one of the full-service chains that make up Duluth Heights' actual dining. The Heig...

Applebee's sits on Tower Avenue in the 3600 block, on the US 2/53 commercial strip that is the South End's own retail spine. The South End's independe...

The Arby's at the Kenwood Shopping Center is one of the three quick-service counters serving the above-the-hill neighborhoods. It is here for the same...

Arby's is near the south end of the Tower Avenue strip, in the 3800 block toward the city's southern limits. It is one of the quick-service counters t...

Arco Coffee Company roasts on Winter Street in Superior's North End, a few blocks from the Thirsty Pagan in the same band of small industrial and comm...

At Sara's Table Chester Creek Cafe occupies a converted building at 1902 East 8th Street in the Chester Park neighborhood, near where Chester Creek co...

Barker's Waterfront Grille is the restaurant at the Barker's Island Inn, on the made ground in Superior Bay that also holds the marina, the Inner Beac...

Beacon Sports Bar & Grill sits on the Hermantown commercial strip and fills up on Hawks nights, which in a hockey town with three state championships...

Bearaboo is a coffee shop on Stanley Avenue at the south end of Cloquet, near the Highway 33 corridor. Cloquet is the largest town in Carlton County a...

Bent Paddle Brewing is the business most often credited with starting the Lincoln Park Craft District, and it is the anchor of what is now the most ta...

Bergey's is a plain neighborhood bar on West Superior Street in Lincoln Park, in among the craft district's newer businesses. Every account of Lincoln...

Betty's Pies at 1633 Highway 61 began in 1957 when Betty's father built a fish shack on the North Shore highway. Betty added pies to the menu in 1958...

Big Daddy's is a burger place on Piedmont Avenue, the road that climbs from Lincoln Park up through Piedmont Heights toward the Duluth Heights shoppin...

Billings Park Eatery is the sit-down breakfast and lunch place on the Iowa Avenue block, and it is the reason Billings Park is not the restaurant dese...

The Duluth Black Woods sits on London Road, the lakeside corridor running east from the Fitger's complex through the East End toward Lakeside. It is t...

Black Woods Grill & Bar's Proctor location at 195 Highway 2 is the closest full-service dining room to Proctor, Bayview Heights, and Spirit Mountain,...

The Two Harbors Black Woods is on 7th Avenue in the middle of town, and the company calls it "our first location," ahead of Proctor and London Road. D...

Blacklist Brewing has its taproom on East Superior Street downtown, between Zeitgeist and the Carmody, in the run of storefronts that carries most of...

Brick's is the pub on Broadway in Wrenshall, and as far as this guide can establish it is the only place to eat or drink in the village. Wrenshall is...

Bridgeman's is the ice cream and family restaurant off Mountain Shadow Drive in the Miller Hill area of Duluth Heights. Bridgeman's is a Minnesota nam...

Buffalo Wild Wings is on Miller Trunk Highway in the Miller Hill corridor, part of the chain dining that is, realistically, most of what Duluth Height...

Bulldog Pizza sits in the Mount Royal shopping centre on Woodland Avenue, the small strip that serves the neighborhoods either side of the University...

Burger Paradox is on West Superior Street between the Bent Paddle end of the Lincoln Park craft blocks and the Wild State end, in the stretch that has...

Burrito Union Tequila Bar is on East 4th Street, the above-the-hill commercial run that serves the East End and the student blocks below the College o...

Canal Park Brewing Company is the district's own brewery, on Canal Park Drive with a patio facing Lake Superior. It brews on site, pours a rotating ta...

Caribou Coffee on West Central Entrance is the Minnesota-born chain's Duluth Heights drive-through, on the corridor the neighborhood is built around....

This is the honest entry. Hermantown has no independent coffee shop that functions as a neighborhood gathering place, and the drive-through Caribou on...

Carmen's at 1410 Prospect Avenue West is a longtime Cloquet bar and restaurant, the kind of room that has been serving the same city through several e...

Carmody is the Irish pub on East Superior Street downtown, a few doors up from Zeitgeist, and one of the small handful of rooms that carry live music...

Castle Danger Brewery has been brewing on the North Shore since 2011, and its taproom at 17 7th Street in downtown Two Harbors looks out over Lake Sup...

Cedar Coffee Company roasts on County Highway 26 at the edge of Two Harbors, off the main highway rather than on it. Two Harbors is the last real town...

Chachos is a taqueria on Canal Park Drive, at the cheap end of a district where most menus are not. That is the reason it belongs in a real estate gui...

Charlie Brown's Bar is one of the two taverns on the Iowa Avenue block in Billings Park, a plain neighborhood bar rather than a destination, which in...

Clyde Iron Works is a restaurant and event hall in the surviving buildings of the Clyde Iron Works foundry on West Michigan Street in Lincoln Park. Th...

Corktown is the eatery and bar at 27th Avenue West, sharing a corner with the Duluth Grill at the western end of Lincoln Park. A name note first, beca...

Crank and Dasher makes handcrafted ice cream and confections at 4431 East Superior Street, directly beside Amity Coffee on the Lakeside business block...

The Fitger's Courtyard shop is Crank and Dasher's seasonal second location, in the courtyard of the old Fitger's brewery complex on East Superior Stre...

The Crooked Pint is the sit-down restaurant in the Kenwood shopping area on West Arrowhead Road, beside the coffee house and the grocery. It is a Minn...

Culver's is on Mall Drive in the Miller Hill cluster, the Upper-Midwest burger-and-custard chain that is a fixture of Duluth Heights' everyday eating....

Do North Pizzeria and Pub at 5116 Miller Trunk Highway is one of the few genuinely local sit-down restaurants inside Hermantown, in a commercial lands...

The Two Harbors Do North sits on Waterfront Drive by the harbor, next door to Louise's Place, in the short row of businesses that faces the ore docks...

Dovetail is the daytime cafe and marketplace in the middle of the Lincoln Park Craft District, between OMC Smokehouse and Love Creamery on West Superi...

The DQ Grill & Chill in the 3100 block of Tower Avenue is at the north end of the South End strip, where Tower starts to run south from Belknap. It is...

The Dry Dock is a roadhouse bar and restaurant on Midway Road, out in the rural ground between Proctor and the river where Duluth's city limits contai...

Duluth Cider is one of two cideries in the Lincoln Park Craft District, alongside Wildstate Cider, and part of the concentration of craft producers th...

Duluth Coffee Company roasts and pours on East Superior Street downtown, a block up from the Lake Avenue corner, with a separate kitchen and bar opera...

Duluth Grill is the west side's best-known restaurant and one of the businesses regularly named as part of the backbone of the Lincoln Park Craft Dist...

The Duluth Tap Exchange is a self-pour taproom on West Superior Street, next door to OMC Smokehouse in the Lincoln Park Craft District. Its format is...

Duluth's Best Bread bakes on West 3rd Street in Lincoln Park, up the hill from the craft district on West Superior Street, and it has grown into the c...

Dunkin' sits in the 3100 block of Tower Avenue, the drive-through coffee-and-donut counter on the South End's commercial strip. The neighborhood has n...

Earth Rider is Superior's flagship brewery, brewing at 1617 North 3rd Street with cold, clear Lake Superior water (Earth Rider Brewery, accessed 2026-...

Eddie's is a rib house on East 4th Street at the far eastern end of Superior, out past the East End toward Allouez and the ore docks. This end of the...

Empire Coffee is the daytime coffee house on the 1200 block of Tower Avenue, in the stretch of downtown Superior that has slowly turned back into a wa...

Eskomo Pizza Pies sits at 3 Highway 61 East, at the corner of Canosia Road and Highway 61 in what passes for downtown Esko, doing pizza, wings, burger...

Farmer Doug is a three-generation family farm at 3361 Lindahl Road, on the Midway side of the Proctor area, in business since 1984 (Farmer Doug, acces...

Fitger's Brewhouse brews and serves inside the old Fitger's brewery on East Superior Street, the lakeside complex that stopped brewing in the twentiet...

Foster's is a sports bar and grill on West Arrowhead Road in Hermantown, away from the Miller Trunk Highway strip that carries most of the city's comm...

The Gopher is the bar and grill on the west side of North Central Avenue in Spirit Valley, directly across from the Rustic. Between them, and with Mr....

Gordy's Hi-Hat at 415 Sunnyside Drive opened in 1960 under Gordy and Marilyn Lundquist and is still independently owned and operated by the family, se...

The Warming House sits at 411 Sunnyside Drive, immediately next door to Gordy's Hi-Hat at 415, sharing the name and the site while keeping its own pho...

Grandma's Saloon & Grill sits at 522 Lake Avenue South, directly under the Aerial Lift Bridge, and it is the closest thing Canal Park has to an instit...

Gronk's Grill and Bar sits at 4909 East 2nd Street on Superior's lower east end, south of Barker's Island along the US 2/53 corridor. It is a neighbor...

Hammond Steak House at 1402 North 5th Street carries the Wisconsin supper club tradition in Superior: steaks and seafood, a full bar, a banquet facili...

Hanabi is a Japanese restaurant on North 1st Avenue West, a block up from Superior Street in the downtown core. Duluth's sushi is concentrated downtow...

Heather's Cafe at 1304 Cloquet Avenue is Cloquet's breakfast and lunch spot, serving breakfast all day, and the closest thing the city has to a mornin...

Holy Smokes is a barbecue and coffee house combination on Avenue B in Cloquet, a block off the Cloquet Avenue downtown. The pairing sounds odd and is...

Hoops Brewing is the taproom on South Lake Avenue in Canal Park, sharing its address with the Ripple Bar. It is a taproom rather than a brewpub, which...

Hudy's is one of the East End taverns on East 5th Street, the residential grid that Superior residents still call Old Town because the city started he...

Hugo's Pizza II is a pizza place serving the Gary-New Duluth area at the far western end of Duluth, one of a handful of food businesses on or near the...

Hungry Hippie Tacos is at the eastern end of the Lincoln Park craft blocks on West Superior Street, across from Bent Paddle's taproom. The business ru...

India Palace is on West Superior Street in downtown Duluth, on the quieter side of the commercial core away from the Lake Avenue corner. The Twin Port...

Izzy's is a barbecue kitchen inside a bar on North 3rd Street, a block from Earth Rider Brewery and the Cedar Lounge. That corner of the North End is...

Jersey Mike's is one of the three quick-service counters at the Kenwood Shopping Center on West Arrowhead Road. This guide generally leaves national c...

Jimmy's Saloon sits between Billings Park Eatery and Charlie Brown's Bar on the 1800 block of Iowa Avenue, the short commercial run that serves Superi...

Johnson's is the old-line bakery and coffee counter on West 3rd Street in Lincoln Park, uphill from the craft district and a few blocks from Duluth's...

Judy's is a breakfast and lunch cafe on 7th Avenue in Two Harbors, in the town grid rather than out on the highway. That distinction runs through ever...

Julie's is a family restaurant on the eastern end of Belknap Street, near the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus and the Central Park neighborhoo...

KD's is the family breakfast and lunch place on the lower end of Tower Avenue, at the point where downtown Superior starts turning into the South End....

The Kom-On-Inn is a long-standing west Duluth tavern on North 57th Avenue West, next door to The Boreal House in the heart of Spirit Valley. The two s...

Lake Avenue is the sit-down restaurant in the DeWitt-Seitz Marketplace, the converted warehouse on South Lake Avenue that also holds Northern Waters S...

The Village Inn is the restaurant in the middle of Lake Nebagamon, the small Douglas County village built around the lake it is named for. Lake Nebaga...

Lake Superior Brewing sits at 5324 East Superior Street, at the seam between Lakeside and Lester Park, with craft beer, taproom food, and lodging on s...

Legends is a tavern on 6th Street in Proctor, a couple of blocks off the 3rd Avenue commercial strip. Proctor supports four or five bars for a populat...

Little Angie's is the patio restaurant on Buchanan Street in Canal Park, part of the same family of restaurants as Grandma's Saloon a block away. Cana...

Louise's Place at 19 Waterfront Drive started more than twenty years ago as a bake and coffee shop. Dan and Marsha Snowdon took it over in 2015 and ex...

Love Creamery's Billings Park shop is both a scoop shop and the company's ice cream factory, and it is the newest reason to stop in this part of Super...

Love Creamery's Canal Park shop is the visitor-facing one, a short walk from the Lakewalk and the Aerial Lift Bridge, running sixteen dairy and vegan...

Love Creamery's Lincoln Park shop is the company's flagship and its test kitchen: this is where new flavors are developed before they reach the other...

Mama T's is a Cajun and Southern kitchen at the far south end of Tower Avenue, out where Superior's main street runs toward the US 2 and 53 junction a...

Maya is a sit-down Mexican restaurant on Miller Trunk Highway in Hermantown, in the retail belt that runs from the Miller Hill Mall out past the airpo...

The McDonald's on East Central Entrance sits on the arterial that, with Miller Trunk Highway, defines Duluth Heights. It is one of the quick-service c...

McKenzie's Bar & Grill at 5094 Miller Trunk Highway is a neighborhood bar and grill serving the Hermantown side of the hill, covering the everyday slo...

McQuade's is a pub with a kitchen on 7th Avenue in Two Harbors, up the grid from the waterfront. Two Harbors runs on a genuinely mixed economy for a t...

Mr. D's is a bar and grill on Grand Avenue at the edge of Spirit Valley, a few blocks from the Central Avenue corner that anchors west Duluth's commer...

The New Scenic Cafe sits on Scenic Highway 61 northeast of Duluth, past Brighton Beach on the road that hugs the Lake Superior shoreline. It is the re...

The Northeastern is a saloon and grill on Saint Louis Avenue in west Cloquet, away from both the downtown blocks and the highway strip. Cloquet is big...

Northern Waters Smokehaus occupies a counter inside the DeWitt-Seitz Marketplace at 394 Lake Avenue South, and it is the single most-recommended lunch...

Olive Garden is on Mall Drive beside the Miller Hill Mall, one of the sit-down chains that make up the everyday dining of Duluth Heights. It is here f...

OMC Smokehouse is the barbecue arm of the Lincoln Park Craft District, on West Superior Street in the two-block stretch that forms the district's hear...

Pedro's Grill and Cantina at 7 8th Street covers Mexican food in Cloquet and is a regular destination for households across the Carlton County corrido...

Perk Place is the coffee house in the Kenwood shopping area on West Arrowhead Road, next to the grocery that serves the whole above-the-hill quarter o...

Pizza Luce sits at the corner of Superior Street and Lake Avenue, which is about as central as an address gets in Duluth: downtown on one side, the wa...

Positively 3rd Street is a worker-owned bakery on East 3rd Street, up the hill from London Road in the residential blocks between downtown and Endion....

The Powerhouse is one of the taverns on 3rd Avenue, the two-block commercial street that is old Proctor's centre. Proctor's identity comes from the ra...

Proctor Pizza & Subs at 204 3rd Avenue is the town's pizza and sub counter, and in a city of about 3,000 with a short commercial street that makes it...

Pudge's is the other East End tavern on East 5th Street, a block along from Hudy's and next to the family restaurant that rounds out the corner. Three...

The Purple Car is the coffee house at the south end of Proctor, near the Boundary Avenue and US 2 junction rather than in the old town centre up the h...

The Rendezvous is on Scanlon Way, which puts it in Scanlon rather than Cloquet despite the Cloquet mailing address, and that distinction is the reason...

Ritual Salad and Apothecary occupies 4501 East Superior Street on the Lakeside block, doing salads and soups alongside a small apothecary and metaphys...

Riverside Bar & Grill sits on Grand Avenue in Riverside, the small company-built neighborhood between Smithville and Morgan Park, and it is one of ver...

Russ Kendall's Smoke House at 149 Scenic Drive has been curing fish in Knife River since W.T. Kendall opened it in 1908, and it has stayed in the fami...

The Rustic Bar stands on the North Central Avenue corner in Spirit Valley, facing the Gopher across the street, which tells you most of what you need...

The Rustic Inn is a pie and breakfast stop in a log building on Highway 61 well north of Two Harbors, out along the shore toward Gooseberry Falls. It...

Sammy's Pizza at 305 Sunnyside Drive is the Cloquet location of the Duluth family operation that has been making the region's distinctive thin-crust p...

The West Duluth Sammy's is on North Central Avenue in Spirit Valley, on the same short block as the Rustic Bar, the Gopher and Wussow's. That block is...

The Woodland Sammy's is one of five Sammy's Pizza rooms in this guide's area, next door to Zen House at the Woodland Avenue and Calvary Road corner. S...

Sammy's Pizza has been a Duluth institution since the family started here in 1958, and the Lakeside location at 4631 East Superior Street is the east...

Sammy's Pizza has been a Duluth family operation since 1958, and its Hermantown location brings the region's distinctive thin-crust to the top of the...

Shake-It is the daytime counter on Grand Avenue at the Spirit Valley end of west Duluth, doing breakfast, lunch and the malts and shakes the name prom...

Shamrock Pizza is a South End pizza place on Tower Avenue, and by listing accounts it is cash only, which is the kind of detail worth publishing becau...

Sir Benedict's Tavern on the Lake, known locally as Sir Ben's, sits at 805 East Superior Street on the edge of the East End, a few minutes down London...

SOL Cafe is on the Lakeside business block of East Superior Street, in the run of storefronts around 45th to 47th Avenues East that serves the whole L...

The Starbucks on West Central Entrance is the everyday coffee stop in Duluth Heights, on the arterial the neighborhood is built around. Duluth Heights...

Streetcar Kitchen & Pub is in Carlton, not Cloquet. That is worth stating plainly, because regional restaurant listings routinely file it under Cloque...

The Kenwood Subway is on Kenwood Avenue itself, a short walk from the shopping centre rather than in it. Like the other two quick-service counters her...

The Subway in the 3300 block of Tower Avenue is one of the everyday counters on the South End's commercial strip. It is recorded for the same reason a...

Superior Ramen House is on East 2nd Street in the Central Park end of Superior, and it is the kind of business that changes how a city's food scene re...

Superior Waffles is a small breakfast and brunch room on Tower Avenue doing what the name says, in the block of downtown Superior that also holds Dulu...

Taco Bell sits on Tower Avenue in the 3500 block, on the South End's US 2/53 commercial strip. It is one of the chain counters that make up most of th...

The Tappa Keg Inn is the Grand Avenue bar and grill at Smithville, the stretch of west Duluth between Norton Park and Riverside where the neighborhood...

Tavern on the Hill is at the foot of Woodland Avenue where it climbs away from the East End, which puts it within walking distance of Chester Park, th...

TequilaTown is a sit-down Mexican restaurant at 3 Highway 61 East in Esko, at the Canosia Road corner that is the closest thing the community has to a...

Texas Roadhouse sits on Mall Drive in the Miller Hill cluster, one of the handful of full-service sit-down restaurants that make up Duluth Heights' ac...

The Anchor Bar at 413 Tower Avenue is the single most-recommended place to eat in Superior, and it has held that position for decades without changing...

The Boreal House is a sit-down restaurant and bar on North 57th Avenue West, in the block of Spirit Valley that has been west Duluth's commercial cent...

The Breeze Inn is a roadhouse bar and grill on Jean Duluth Road, out past where Duluth's built-up streets give way to woods and hobby farms. One place...

The Cedar Lounge is Earth Rider Brewery's official taproom, a block west of the brewery across its festival grounds, with parking off North Tower Aven...

The Choo Choo is a longtime Superior bar and grill at 5002 East 3rd Street, on the city's east end near Gronk's and the Barker's Island approach. It t...

The Gary-New Duluth Milkhouse sits on the Commonwealth Avenue strip at the far western end of Duluth, serving fried chicken and comfort food to a neig...

The Gumbeaux Guys is a Cajun and Creole operation based at 4592 Midway Road in Hermantown, run by a couple who grew up in Louisiana and moved north in...

The Jack at 1016 Cloquet Avenue is one of Cloquet's better-regarded sit-down rooms, on the downtown main street rather than the highway strip. Cloquet...

The Kitchen is a breakfast and lunch room on North 5th Street in Superior's North End, and by listing accounts it opens before half past six in the mo...

The Loch is a cafe and board game room on North 18th Avenue East, in the residential grid above London Road in Duluth's East End. Businesses like this...

The Other Place is the bar and grill on East Calvary Road, a few hundred metres west of the Woodland Avenue commercial corner. Above-the-hill Duluth i...

The Pickwick is the old-line restaurant on East Superior Street between downtown and the Fitger's complex, in a building that has been serving food an...

The Reef is a bar with a kitchen on London Road, the lakeside route that runs from the Fitger's complex out through the East End toward Lakeside. Lond...

The Scoop on 47th is the other ice cream stop in Lakeside, and the more idiosyncratic one: part ice cream counter, part antique and media shop, which...

The Shack sits at the west end of Belknap Street, which makes it the nearest full restaurant to Billings Park and the first thing you reach heading ea...

The Social House at 4897 Miller Trunk Highway is the closest thing Hermantown has to a night-out restaurant: a full bar, shared plates and sushi, and...

Thirsty Pagan Brewing is Superior's brewpub, doing hand-stretched pizza alongside house-brewed beer, with sandwiches, seasonal salads, and vegetarian...

Trophy Cafe is the daytime anchor of the short commercial strip on Commonwealth Avenue in Gary-New Duluth, open daily from 7am to 2pm for breakfast an...

The Trophy Lodge is on South Mont Du Lac Road on the Wisconsin bank of the St. Louis River, across the water from Fond du Lac at the far western tip o...

Ursa Minor Brewing is one of the cluster of breweries and cideries that define the Lincoln Park Craft District, sitting on West Superior Street alongs...

V.I.P. is the pizza place on the 1200 block of Tower Avenue in downtown Superior, across from the Main Club and a few doors from Who's Bar. Superior's...

Va Bene serves Italian food from a house on East Superior Street with the Lakewalk and Lake Superior directly below it, which is the reason to go rath...

The Vanilla Bean at 812 7th Avenue has been cooking in Two Harbors since 1998, best known for brunch: signature oven-baked omelets, Swedish pancakes w...

Vikre Distillery makes small-batch spirits beside the Aerial Lift Bridge, at what it fairly describes as the world's farthest-inland seaport. The hous...

The Village Pump is a bar and grill on the old highway through Solon Springs, the Douglas County village at the head of the St. Croix River about fort...

Vitta does wood-fired Neapolitan pizza on Canal Park Drive, in the block of the district closest to the Lakewalk. Canal Park is the part of Duluth vis...

Wide World of Wings is on the South End stretch of Tower Avenue, a few doors from Shamrock Pizza and Bird's Bar. This end of Superior is where a house...

Wild State Cider is the cidery and taproom at the western end of the Lincoln Park Craft District, a few blocks up West Superior Street from the Bent P...

The Wissota Chophouse is the steakhouse at the top of Tower Avenue in downtown Superior, attached to the hotel on the corner, and it is the closest th...

Wussow's Concert Cafe is the coffee house and small music room on North Central Avenue in Spirit Valley, and it is west Duluth's only real venue. A na...

Zeitgeist is the cafe attached to the arts building on East Superior Street that also holds a cinema and a theatre, which makes it downtown Duluth's p...

Zen House is a Japanese restaurant at the Woodland commercial node, the small cluster of businesses where Woodland Avenue meets Calvary Road at the to...