Restaurants & dining in Riverside, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Riverside neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Riverside has no restaurants, cafes or bars of its own.
The nearest options are over the hill in Proctor, about ten to eleven minutes north: Black Woods Grill & Bar for a full-service meal and the Powerhouse Bar for the neighborhood-bar slot. That is the practical answer for most evenings.
Northeast, eighteen to nineteen minutes, the Lincoln Park Craft District carries the region's most interesting eating and drinking: Duluth Grill for scratch cooking, OMC Smokehouse for barbecue, Bent Paddle Brewing and Ursa Minor for taprooms.
Downtown and Canal Park are about twenty minutes for the full range.
The honest framing: eating out from here is a planned trip in one of two directions, and the distances are the price of the address. If you cook and treat a restaurant meal as a deliberate outing, it is manageable.
The neighborhood's own bar and grill at 8551 Grand Avenue, and one of very few places to eat along this stretch of the river road.
Grand Avenue bar and grill at 7036, up the road at Smithville.
The nearest full-service restaurant, on the Proctor side about eleven minutes north.
The west side's best-known restaurant, about eighteen minutes northeast.
Barbecue in the Lincoln Park Craft District, about nineteen minutes northeast.
The Craft District's anchor brewery, about nineteen minutes northeast.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
Northeast, where the Munger and Western Waterfront trails begin and Indian Point gives boat access.
SmithvilleSouth along the river, sharing the same Census tract and a similar owner-heavy river-corridor profile.
Morgan ParkSoutheast along the river, the 1913 US Steel company town built of concrete block.
ProctorNorth over the hill, its own school district and a walkable small-town main street.
Fond du LacSouthwest along the river, the oldest community in Duluth and even quieter.