Re: Denver at Duluth: the Battle for Mediocrity
Here my lowdown:
Duluth Grill - Always busy and has phenomal food
Mexico Lindo - Fantastic mexico food
Grandma's Saloon - Good food
Sammy's Pizza - A Duluth Pizza classic
Pizza Luce - Great pizza and has a bloody mary bar in the mornings Sunday mornings I think?
Anchor Bar-over in Superior but has cheap drinks and cheap burgers. Dive bar that is a must do.
Uncle Louies - highly recommended breakfast place
Fitgers Brewhouse has local beer that people like
Canal Park Brewing - newest brewpub in Duluth and I've only heard good things
Grandma's Sports Garden- gotta try a pitcher of Kamazee. Only 5 bucks and will give you gut rot. Also is the place to be on a Saturday night where it is essentially a night club. Depending on your age you may love or hate.
Most of these are places away from Canal Park because most places there, are chain places you get can anywhere.
After the game:
Duhb Linn's - busy on Fridays usually
Aces on 1st
Anywhere on Tower Ave. in Superior (so many bars)
Grandma's Sports Garden - Saturday night is very busy, it is always a race for me to get from the game to the bar before they run out of pitchers for Kami's
The Reef
What Biddco said.
I made this trip year before last and actually stayed at Fitgers, which is also a hotel. Drank some
smoked beer in the bar, something I had never even seen or heard of before and loved it. Ate at both the Duluth Grill and at Pizza Luce, which we both really liked, and my wife is a chef and is hard to please besides being a complete pizza snob. Fitger's also has a free shuttle to and from the game as well.
One other thing you must do either before, during, or after the game, in
my opinion is go to the Duluth Curling Club, which Biddco directed me to do back then and he didn't mention here. It's the only place to get alcohol in the whole arena facility complex (that I was told of, anyway) and they allow you to buy a weekend membership for a very nominal sum so you can get in there and "partake". It seemed obvious that the practice is just a way around whatever liquor serving issues there apparently are in their arena, since none was served there.
We really stood out like sore thumbs, all in our UNO gear. Me, my wife, and a couple other UNO fans that we met who were staying at Fitger's as well that rode in the shuttle with us, in that sea of Duluth jerseys in the Curling Club. Everybody was super friendly and we ended up having drinks, both nights, with the parents of Hobey Baker Award winner Jack Connolly, who invited us over on the first night and did again the next when we came in, again. The place is loaded with people going to the game prior to faceoff (and between periods and after the game, too), and while I am at it, the club itself is worth seeing on it's own. This is a world class curling facility. It's freaking huge! It was jaw dropping, in fact. I don't know that I've seen Olympic curling facilities on TV that compare with what they have there. Very, very impressive. It's in the same building/complex as the arena so the proximity to the hockey games is good.
Aside from the actual games, our time in the Curling Club and a side trip to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum were two of the most most worthwhile things we did while we were there.
We were very, very pleasantly surprised by the whole "Duluth experience", in general, I might add.
