Restaurants, cafes & breweries in the Twin Ports

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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 Scoop on 47th is the other ice cream stop on the Lakeside block, and the more idiosyncratic one: part ice cream counter, part antique and media sh...

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...

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...

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...