Restaurants & dining in Lincoln Park, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Lincoln Park neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
This is the best dining-to-price ratio in Duluth, and it is not close. Lincoln Park has more walkable food and drink than any neighborhood in this guide except the East End, at roughly half the housing cost.
The Craft District core, on West Superior Street between roughly 18th and 20th Avenue West, holds most of it. OMC Smokehouse does smoked meats with a patio. Ursa Minor Brewing runs a taproom with rotating food trucks. Duluth Cider and Wildstate Cider give the district two cideries, which is unusual anywhere. Duluth's Best Bread supplies the bakery end. A few blocks over on West Michigan Street, Bent Paddle Brewing is the production brewery most credited with starting the whole thing, and its beer distributes statewide.
Duluth Grill, a short distance west, is the neighborhood's best-known restaurant: scratch cooking with gardens on the property, breakfast through dinner, and a weekend brunch wait that regulars plan around. It is named consistently as part of the district's backbone alongside Bent Paddle, Duluth's Best Bread, and Frost River.
Beyond the neighborhood, downtown is six minutes east for the city's full range, and the east side's options are ten to fifteen minutes out. But the point of Lincoln Park is that you rarely need to leave.
Sandwiches and a beer list at 102 South 27th Avenue West, sharing a corner with the Duluth Grill and open later than it. Formerly Corktown Deli & Brews.
Smash burgers at 2113 West Superior Street, open to 11pm nightly, one of the few late kitchens on the west side.
Restaurant and event hall in the old foundry at 2920 West Michigan Street. Thursday to Sunday only.
A plain neighborhood bar at 2232 West Superior Street, among the district's newer businesses.
The drive-in at 3131 West 3rd Street, up the hill from the district.
The west side's best-known restaurant, scratch cooking with gardens on site.
Smoked meats and a patio on West Superior Street in the district's core.
Farm-to-table cafe at 1902 E 8th Street, about twelve minutes east.
Sandwiches and live music at 805 E Superior Street, about ten minutes east.
The district's daytime cafe and marketplace at 1917 West Superior Street, covering the mornings most of the block does not.
The company's flagship and test kitchen at 1908 West Superior Street, with a full espresso bar.
Self-pour taproom at 1905 West Superior Street, next door to OMC.
Cidery and taproom at 2515 West Superior Street, at the western end of the district.
The bakery at 2632 West 3rd Street, which also supplies counters downtown and in Superior. Sells out.
The old-line doughnut and cake bakery at 2230 West 3rd Street, a few blocks from the newer one.
The brewery most credited with starting the Craft District, on West Michigan Street.
Taproom with a patio and rotating food trucks on West Superior Street.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
West along Superior Street, similar affordability with more single-family stock and the high school.
PiedmontUp the hill to the northwest, quieter with the city's most technical trail network.
Duluth HeightsAbove the hill, postwar housing and the Miller Hill retail corridor.
Downtown DuluthSix minutes east, the city's commercial core and waterfront.
Spirit ValleyFurther west, the other West Duluth commercial node at lower prices still.