Positively 3rd Street Bakery
Bakery · 1202 East 3rd Street, Duluth, MN 55805
About Positively 3rd Street Bakery
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.
It has baked since 1983 and is genuinely a cooperative: in its own words, "we, the workers, own the means of production." The output is cookies, bars, pastries, granola and bread, with wheat-free and vegan options, from scratch and largely local and organic ingredients (Positively 3rd Street Bakery, accessed 2026-08-14).
It is also the sort of business that tells you something about a neighborhood. This is not a commercial strip; it is a street of houses with a bakery in it. Households in the East End and Chester Park treat it as a walk rather than a drive, which is the entire difference between an above-the-hill neighborhood that feels connected and one that does not.
Hours are not published on a source this guide can confirm, and bakeries sell out. Check the bakery's own site before you go.
Good to know: worker-owned cooperative, cookies and bars, pastries, granola, bread, wheat-free and vegan options, baking since 1983.
Neighborhoods it serves
Duluth's boom-era hillside, where the mansions and the streetcar city meet.
Congdon ParkOld money, old elms, and a creek out the back door.
Downtown DuluthDuluth's civic core: three miles of skywalk, and a housing market made almost entirely of converted upper floors.
Central HillsideThe steepest, densest, cheapest walk to work in Duluth, with the best cheap view in the city.
Where these facts come from
- Positively 3rd Street Bakery, own site (3rdstbakery.com now redirects to 3rdstreetbakery.com) accessed 2026-08-14
Last reviewed 2026-08-14 by Guide editorial.