Restaurants & dining in Congdon Park, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Congdon Park neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Congdon has essentially no restaurants inside its own boundaries, and that is by design: the neighborhood was platted and zoned as residential and has stayed that way. What it has instead is a five minute drive in either direction to two very different dining corridors.
West, toward Chester Park and downtown, is where Congdon residents go for a real meal out. At Sara's Table Chester Creek Cafe at 1902 East 8th Street has been the east side's farm-to-table anchor for years, doing breakfast through dinner in a converted house near the creek. Sir Benedict's Tavern on the Lake at 805 East Superior Street is the neighborhood's default pub: sandwiches, a long tap list, live music, and a patio facing the water. Beyond those, London Road and downtown put the fullest range of dining in the city within about ten minutes.
East along Superior Street is the Lakeside business block, roughly 44th to 47th Avenue East, which has quietly become the most walkable eating-and-drinking strip on this side of town. Amity Coffee handles mornings, Crank and Dasher does handmade ice cream next door, Sammy's Pizza has run its Lakeside location since the family started in Duluth in 1958, and Lake Superior Brewing pours a few blocks further out. For a special occasion, the New Scenic Cafe on Highway 61 is about fifteen minutes up the shore.
Steaks and banquet space at 2525 London Road, the nearest full-service restaurant on the corridor below the neighborhood.
Bar and grill at 2002 London Road, a few blocks west along the same corridor.
Pizza and a kitchen at 101 Mount Royal Shopping Circle, up the hill by the campuses.
Long-running farm-to-table cafe and bakery at 1902 E 8th Street in Chester Park, about ten minutes west.
Sandwich and beer tavern at 805 E Superior Street with live music and a lake-facing patio.
Duluth pizza institution, family-run since 1958, at 4631 E Superior Street in Lakeside.
The region's destination restaurant, on Scenic Highway 61 about fifteen minutes up the shore.
Specialty coffee shop at 4429 E Superior Street that also pours wine and rotating taps.
Handcrafted ice cream and confections at 4431 E Superior Street.
Craft brewery with food and lodging at 5324 E Superior Street, about ten minutes east.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
Same family feel and the same schools pathway closer to Lester Park, at meaningfully gentler prices.
Lester ParkThe far east end of the same corridor, with the biggest trail network in the city out the back door.
Hunter's ParkBig wooded lots and quiet streets by Hartley, a similar era of housing with more land.
East End / EndionHistoric homes even closer to downtown and the lake, more walkable and a bit denser.
WoodlandNear UMD and St. Scholastica, with somewhat newer stock and easier grades.