Tappa Keg Inn
Bar and grill · 7036 Grand Avenue, Duluth, MN 55807
About Tappa Keg Inn
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 neighborhoods thin out and the zoo, the river and the rail corridor take over.
It is a plain neighborhood bar with a kitchen, open long hours, and it functions as the local for several small neighborhoods at once. That is the pattern across the far west end: individual neighborhoods are too small to support their own commercial strip, so one bar or cafe on Grand Avenue serves three or four of them.
Expect a bar rather than a restaurant. The address is corroborated against the OpenStreetMap record for the same site, but nothing first-party confirms current operation, so treat the hours and the operating status as unconfirmed and call before you go.
Good to know: neighborhood bar, grill menu, weekend breakfast per listings.
Neighborhoods it serves
River-corridor housing below, Bardon Peak above, and a radical labor college in its past.
Norton ParkWhere the Munger Trail starts, between two creeks on the river.
FairmountThe zoo neighborhood, between two creeks on the Grand Avenue corridor.
RiversideA shipyard village on Spirit Lake, with the Munger Trail through the middle.
Gary-New DuluthTwo company-era river towns that people now treat as one, and the service center for the far west end.
Where these facts come from
- Restaurantji current listing, Tappa Keg Inn, 7036 Grand Avenue, Duluth; address corroborated by the OpenStreetMap record for the same site accessed 2026-08-14
Last reviewed 2026-08-14 by Guide editorial.