Restaurants & dining in Cody, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Cody neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Cody has no restaurants, cafes or bars of its own. What it has instead is a two-minute drive to the best-served commercial strip in West Duluth.
The Spirit Valley district immediately downhill carries the everyday west-side restaurants along its main street, and it is where most residents go without thinking about it.
Seven to eight minutes west, on the Proctor side, Black Woods Grill & Bar is the nearest full-service restaurant for a family dinner out.
The real draw is ten to eleven minutes northeast in the Lincoln Park Craft District: Duluth Grill for scratch cooking, OMC Smokehouse for barbecue with a patio, Bent Paddle Brewing and Ursa Minor for taprooms, and Duluth Cider. For a neighborhood at this price point, having that eleven minutes away is a genuine amenity.
Downtown and Canal Park are about fourteen minutes for the full range. The honest framing: if you are content to drive two minutes for everyday food and eleven for something better, Cody is comfortable. If you want to walk to dinner, it is the wrong neighborhood.
On the Central Avenue block directly downhill, at number 403.
Sit-down restaurant at 330 North 57th Avenue West, a few minutes down the slope.
Long-standing tavern next door to the Boreal House at 332 North 57th Avenue West.
Bar with a kitchen at 402 North Central Avenue, facing the Rustic across the street.
Tavern on the North Central Avenue corner below the neighborhood.
The west side's best-known restaurant, about ten minutes northeast.
Barbecue in the Lincoln Park Craft District, about eleven minutes northeast.
Full-service restaurant on the Proctor side, about eight minutes west.
Coffee house and small music room at 324 North Central Avenue, the nearest evening venue. Older sources call it Beaner's Central.
Daytime counter at 5801 Grand Avenue doing breakfast, lunch and malts, closing early afternoon. The hours come from a site that states no address, so confirm before making the trip.
The Craft District's anchor brewery, about eleven minutes northeast.
Taproom with a patio and food trucks on West Superior Street.
Cider taproom in the Craft District, about eleven minutes northeast.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
Immediately downhill, the main street where almost every errand from Cody actually happens.
DenfeldEast, more housing stock, the high school, and the nearest published median.
FairmountSouth, with the Lake Superior Zoo and the Kingsbury Creek corridor.
Bayview HeightsUp the hill west, larger wooded lots, Proctor schools and a harder winter.
IrvingSoutheast toward the bay, a similar era of housing with a park and playfield.