Restaurants & dining in Spirit Valley, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Spirit Valley neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Spirit Valley's own dining is modest and practical: the Grand Avenue business district carries everyday restaurants and cafes serving the neighborhood rather than drawing visitors from across the city. For a working main street, that is exactly the correct offering, and being able to walk to lunch is worth something.
For a meal worth driving to, the Lincoln Park Craft District is about ten minutes east and is the best dining value in Duluth. OMC Smokehouse does smoked meats with a patio on West Superior Street. Bent Paddle Brewing anchors the district from West Michigan Street. Ursa Minor Brewing runs a taproom with rotating food trucks, and Duluth Cider and Wildstate Cider give the area two cideries. Duluth Grill, the west side's best-known restaurant, is about nine minutes east and does scratch cooking with gardens on the property.
That is a strong set of options for a ten-minute drive, and it is the single biggest improvement in West Duluth quality of life over the past decade.
Beyond that, downtown is fifteen minutes for the full range, and the east side's restaurants, including At Sara's Table Chester Creek Cafe and Sir Benedict's Tavern on the Lake, are eighteen to twenty minutes out, which is far enough that most Spirit Valley households treat them as an occasion rather than an option.
On the Central Avenue block in the middle of Spirit Valley, at number 403.
Sit-down restaurant at 330 North 57th Avenue West, the newer kind of business on this block.
Long-standing tavern next door at 332 North 57th Avenue West.
Tavern on the North Central Avenue corner, facing the Gopher.
Bar and grill at 5622 Grand Avenue, on the district's other main street.
The one with a kitchen, across the street at 402 North Central Avenue.
The west side's best-known restaurant, about nine minutes east.
Smoked meats and a patio in the Lincoln Park Craft District, about ten minutes east.
The neighborhood's own coffee house and small music venue at 324 North Central Avenue, on the district's main commercial block.
Breakfast, lunch counter and malts at 5801 Grand Avenue, in the district. The hours come from a site that states no address, so confirm before making the trip.
The Craft District's anchor brewery on West Michigan Street, about ten minutes east.
Taproom with a patio and rotating food trucks on West Superior Street.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
Immediately east, the other West Duluth core with the high school and the ballpark.
Lincoln ParkEast along Superior Street, the Craft District and the city's lowest prices.
Bayview HeightsAbove on the hillside, quieter with more postwar stock and similar trail access.
Morgan ParkSouthwest, the former US Steel company town with distinctive housing at low prices.
SmithvilleSouthwest along the river, quieter and closer to the estuary.