Restaurants & dining in Hermantown, Minnesota
Part of the Hermantown neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Hermantown's dining is honest about what it is: highway-corridor restaurants and neighborhood bars, with the metro's chain cluster on Miller Hill five minutes away and the actual food scene down in Duluth.
The bright spot is The Gumbeaux Guys, a Cajun and Creole operation run by a couple from Louisiana turning out gumbo, alligator balls, and catfish, and by a wide margin the most enthusiastically reviewed small food business in the city. Worth knowing before you drive over: it works as a food truck and caterer out of a Midway Road base rather than a fixed dining room, so check where it is parked. Do North Pizzeria and Pub at 5116 Miller Trunk Highway is the reliable family sit-down. Sammy's Pizza has a Hermantown location, part of the Duluth family operation that has been making the region's distinctive thin-crust since 1958.
For a night out with a room around it, The Social House at 4897 Miller Trunk Highway is the closest thing the city has, and McKenzie's Bar & Grill at 5094 Miller Trunk and Beacon Sports Bar & Grill cover the neighborhood bar and grill slot, with Beacon busy on Hawks nights. Caribou Coffee on the highway is, realistically, the city's morning coffee.
What Hermantown does not have is a walkable cafe, an independent bakery, a brewery, or fine dining. All of those are in Duluth: Lincoln Park's craft district is about twelve minutes, Canal Park about fifteen, and Blackwoods in Proctor is ten. If a coffee shop you can walk to is part of what you are shopping for, that is a genuine argument for Duluth Heights or Piedmont instead.
Pizzeria and pub at 5116 Miller Trunk Highway, one of the few genuinely local sit-down options inside the city.
Full-service restaurant and bar at 4897 Miller Trunk Highway, the closest thing Hermantown has to a night-out room.
Neighborhood bar and grill at 5094 Miller Trunk Highway, serving the Hermantown side of the hill.
Cajun and Creole kitchen based at 4592 Midway Road, run by a couple from Louisiana, doing gumbo, alligator balls, and catfish. It operates as a food truck and caterer rather than a fixed dining room, so check where it is parked before you go.
The Hermantown location of the Duluth pizza family that has been in business since 1958.
The drive-through coffee stop on the Miller Trunk corridor, and honestly the city's default morning option.
Sports bar on the Hermantown commercial strip, busy on Hawks game nights.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
Directly east over the Duluth line, older above-the-hill housing at a lower price with the same Miller Hill access.
ProctorTen minutes south, a smaller school district and much lower prices in an older railroad town.
KenwoodSoutheast toward UMD, established 1950s and 1960s housing on the Duluth side with ISD 709 schools.
PiedmontDown the hill toward Lincoln Park, older stock with hillside views and the Piedmont trail network.