Restaurants & dining in Downtown Superior, Wisconsin
Part of the Downtown Superior neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
For a district this size, downtown Superior eats and drinks well above its weight, and almost all of the energy is at the north end of Tower Avenue.
Earth Rider Brewery at 1617 North 3rd Street is the anchor, brewing with Lake Superior water in the former Leamon Mercantile warehouse and running an outdoor festival grounds and music calendar. Its taproom is the Cedar Lounge, a block west across the grounds, in a building put up in 1912 for the Northern Brewing Company and billed as the longest continually operating tavern in the Twin Ports. It is one of the better small live-music rooms in the region. Thirsty Pagan Brewing is a block east at 1615 Winter Street in the 1908 Soo Line Freight Depot, doing hand-stretched pizza and house beer, and it is the default group dinner in the city.
The Anchor Bar at 413 Tower Avenue is the institution and the recommendation everyone in the Twin Ports gives: cheap, generously built burgers and fresh-cut fries in a room hung with maritime salvage, run by the Anderson family since 1977. Hammond Steak House at 1402 North 5th Street carries the Wisconsin supper club tradition a few blocks off the core.
What downtown does not have is daytime dining density, a bakery scene, or much cuisine variety, and hours skew toward evening. For range, downtown Duluth and Canal Park are twelve minutes over the bridge, which is how most people here treat it.
Thin-crust pizza at 1201 Tower Avenue, open late by local standards and closed Mondays.
The city's steakhouse, at 1102 Tower Avenue inside the hotel on the corner.
Family restaurant at 403 Belknap Street, a few blocks north.
Barbecue inside a bar at 1506 North 3rd Street in the North End, about four minutes north.
Early breakfast and lunch at 803 North 5th Street, opening before half past six.
The long-running supper club at 3301 Belknap Street, about five minutes east.
All-day breakfast and lunch at 1706 Tower Avenue, where downtown starts turning into the South End.
The Twin Ports institution at 413 Tower Avenue, Anderson family since 1977, with a life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald on the wall.
Brewpub at 1615 Winter Street in the 1908 Soo Line Freight Depot, a block east of Tower.
Wisconsin supper club dining at 1402 North 5th Street.
East-end bar and grill at 5002 East 3rd Street, about ten minutes out.
Daytime coffee house at 1204 Tower Avenue, in the walkable stretch of downtown.
Coffee house at 1423 Belknap Street, on the errand road and close to the university.
Superior's flagship brewery at 1617 North 3rd Street, in the former Leamon Mercantile warehouse, with outdoor festival grounds.
Built 1912 for Northern Brewing Company, billed as the longest continually operating tavern in the Twin Ports, now Earth Rider's taproom and music venue.
Hours and menus change, confirm with each business.
Restaurants & dining next door
Immediately north, sharing the brewery district and the same 1890s building stock at a residential scale.
Central Park (Superior)East of downtown, the city's historic residential district with the substantial 1890s houses.
Billings Park (Superior)West along the river, a quieter residential neighborhood with the city's best riverfront park.
South End (South Superior)South along Tower Avenue, where the commercial strip loosens into residential blocks.
Allouez-Itasca (Superior)East past Barker's Island toward the ore docks and Wisconsin Point.