Most "best pizza in [city]" articles have a length problem. The writer needs ten entries, the city has three, and by number seven you are being told with a straight face that a gas station makes a compelling Detroit-style.
Superior has two. Two real, independent, worth-your-evening pizza destinations, and they are genuinely different from each other, which is better luck than a city of 26,000 usually gets. So this list is two entries long, and then it does the more useful thing and tells you what is across the bridge, because that is how people who actually live here eat.
A note on method. We have not eaten every pizza on this list and we are not going to invent a review. No star ratings, no fabricated visits. These are editorial picks based on reputation, longevity, what the kitchen puts on the menu, and standing in the local conversation. What we did verify is that every business below is open, at the address given, confirmed from its own website in August 2026. In a region where restaurants turn over as fast as they do here, that is the part most lists skip.
Superior's two
1. Thirsty Pagan Brewing
1615 Winter Street, Superior.
The default group dinner in the city, and the one to pick when the pizza is the occasion rather than the errand. Thirsty Pagan occupies the 1908 Soo Line Freight Depot, brews its own beer, and hand-stretches the crust, and the specialty list has more conviction than a brewpub strictly needs.
The Derailed is the statement piece: eleven toppings, cooked well done, running fresh garlic, spinach, pepperoni, salami, ham, peppers, onions, mushrooms, house-made spicy beer sausage, black olives and pepperoncini. On the other end there is a Mediterranean with feta, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes, a Pizza Diane on a pesto base with chicken and cherry tomatoes, and a house alfredo. Build-your-own runs 10, 13 and 16 inch across 23 toppings, there is a cauliflower crust for gluten-free, and a six-inch personal for one.
The catch: Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 9pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. This trips up more people than anything else in this article.
2. Vintage Italian Pizza
1201 Tower Avenue, downtown Superior.
The other kind of pizza place, and the correct answer on a Sunday. Vintage Italian works the old-world-family-recipe end: thin crust, chewy cheese, a sauce the house describes as spiced just right. It is the box-in-the-car pizza rather than the sit-down-for-three-hours pizza, and every city needs one of each.
It sits right on the Tower Avenue spine, which means it is a five-minute drive from almost any address in Central Park, Billings Park or the North End, and about ten from the East End.
Open Tuesday to Thursday 11am to 10pm, Friday and Saturday to 11pm, Sunday 10am to 10pm. Closed Mondays.
Between the two of them, Superior has pizza every day of the week except Monday. Plan accordingly, or cross the bridge.
Across the bridge: the Duluth pizzas worth the ten minutes
This is not a detour from the topic. It is the topic. Superior households treat Duluth as their extended restaurant list, because the Blatnik and Bong bridges make it a ten-minute proposition, and any honest guide to eating in Superior has to say so. It is also, frankly, one of the better arguments for buying on the Wisconsin side: you pay Superior prices for the house and eat off Duluth's menu.
3. Pizza Lucé, downtown Duluth
11 East Superior Street, Duluth.
The one that solves the problem no one else in the Twin Ports solves: it is open until 1am, every single night, and it delivers. Ten minutes over the Blatnik from downtown Superior. It is a Minnesota chain rather than a local original, nine locations across the Twin Cities and Duluth, and it earns its place here on availability and consistency rather than romance. When it is 11:30pm and you have people in the house, this is the list.
Monday to Friday 11am to 1am, Saturday and Sunday from 10am.
4. Ursa Minor Brewing, Lincoln Park
2415 West Superior Street, Duluth.
Straight over the Bong Bridge into the Lincoln Park craft district, and the most interesting pizza in this article. Ursa Minor runs a wood-fired kitchen with dough made in-house daily, and the menu reads like the North rather than like Italy: the Nomad carries wild rice sausage with house-pickled red onion and mushrooms; the Food Farm is named for the local farm and rotates an ingredient; the Wise Yker stacks hot sausage and smoked pork loin with gorgonzola. There is a straight Margherita at $14 for anyone who wants none of that.
Sunday to Thursday 11am to 10pm, Friday and Saturday to 11pm. It is a taproom, so it is also a place you can sit for a while.
5. Do North Pizzeria and Pub, Hermantown
5116 Miller Trunk Highway, Hermantown.
Twenty-five minutes from Tower Avenue, up past the airport, and the reason to make that drive is that Do North is generous in a way that suits the region: the house line is "loaded and loved," and that is an accurate description of what arrives. It is the pizza destination for the whole above-the-hill and Miller Hill side of the market, and it is a pub, so it works for a table of adults.
Monday and Wednesday to Thursday 11am to 8pm, Friday and Saturday to 9pm, Sunday noon to 8pm. Closed Tuesdays.
6. Proctor Pizza & Subs
204 3rd Avenue, Proctor.
The small-town one, on Proctor's walkable main-street block, and the most specific menu in this article. Proctor Pizza grinds its own sausage and beef in house and runs a signature sauce, and the local orders are the Garlic Pizza Wheel, the Rail Special (a railroad town names things after the railroad) and a gyro pizza. There is a rotating pizza of the month and fresh-baked cookies.
Monday to Thursday 11am to 7pm, Friday to 8pm, Saturday noon to 8pm. Closed Sunday. This is a small operation with small-operation hours, so call ahead on a holiday weekend.
The institution, with an honest caveat
Sammy's Pizza is the name that comes up in every Twin Ports pizza conversation and it needs its own paragraph. The family started making pizza in Duluth in 1958, the style is distinctive and unlike anything else on this list (thin, cut into small squares rather than wedges, the "tavern cut" that Upper Midwest transplants immediately recognize), and for a large share of households on the Duluth side, Sammy's is simply what pizza means.
The honest caveat: the location we could independently confirm current hours for is the Cloquet store at 305 Sunnyside Drive in Cloquet, open 11am to 9pm daily except Tuesday, delivering from 4pm. The Duluth-area locations, including the Lakeside shop on East Superior Street and one in Hermantown, are referenced by the same operation but we could not confirm their current hours from a first-party source, so we are not going to publish hours we have not checked. Call before you drive. The pizza is not in question; the hours are.
What this list tells you about living here
Two things, and both matter if you are house hunting.
The Twin Ports are one food market with a bridge in the middle. Nobody who lives in Superior limits themselves to Superior restaurants, and nobody in Duluth's West End thinks twice about crossing for a burger. If you are evaluating a Superior address on the assumption that you are buying into Superior's amenity list alone, you are undercounting badly. Ten minutes is not a barrier; it is a commute most Twin Cities residents would consider a rounding error.
Hours are the real constraint up here, not distance. Look again at this list. Closed Mondays. Closed Tuesdays. Closed Sundays. Kitchen shuts at 8pm. That is not a criticism, it is a labor market of about 175,000 people across two states, and it is the single most common adjustment newcomers report making. Outside of Pizza Lucé and a handful of taprooms, plan on eating before 9pm. We have mapped the whole pattern in which Twin Ports restaurants close which day and where to eat late.
For the fuller picture of what you get on each side of the bay, read Duluth vs Superior: which side of the bay. If you want the other half of dinner, our best burgers in the Twin Ports roundup runs on the same verify-before-publish rule as this one.