Restaurants:
Walking distance to UMD:
Vanilla Bean - Breakfast and Lunch restaurant (A)
Bulldog Pizza - Pizza and other Italian dishes (A)
Mount Royal Market - Grocery store with prepared sandwiches, sides, soup, and salad bar (B)
Caribou Coffee (in Mount Royal) (B)
Tavern on the Hill - burgers, salad, pizzas etc. (C)
QDoba - TexMex chain (C)
Chilly Billy's - frozen yogurt chain (C)
Starbucks - Coffee chain (C)
Jimmy John's - sandwich chain (C)
Pizza Hut - fast food pizza chain (C)
Other Restaurants in Duluth:
Sir Ben's (F) - pub with good sandwiches and outdoor seating
Sara's Table (Chester Park) - a lot of veggie options and outdoor seating
Va Bene (F) - pasta (good view of the lake) some patio seeting, need to make reservations
Pickwick (F) - meat and sandwiches (some good views of the lake) usually has outdoor seating in the summer
Fitger's Brewery and Grille (F) - beer and burgers with outdoor seating (but sadly not lake view)
Boat Club (F) - good food, kinda pricey with outdoor seating
Mexico Lindo (F) - it's Mexican food in Minnesota with a nice view of the lake
Canal Park Brewing Company (CP) - salads, sandwiches and beer with outdoor seating and a fire pit. The tourists like it here.
Vitta Pizza (CP) - good wood fired pizza with front and back outdoor seating.
Pizza Luce (D) - good pizza
Northern Waters Smokehaus (CP) - delicious sandwiches. You may have to find a bench to eat on.
Bellioso's (CP) - Italian.
Zeitgeist (D) - Good food not many tables make a reservation.
Ice Cream (Duluthians love their ice cream in the summer):
Portland Malt Shoppe (F) - it's cute
Crank and Dasher (F) - next to the lake with seating
Love Creamery (CP) - always packed
Other
The Rathskeller (D) - in a basement in a good way
Blacklist Brewery (D) - good space
Hoops Brewery (CP) - beer in Canal Park. They have games too.
Vikre Distillery (CP) - amazing cocktails. You may need a reservation. A few outdoor seats.
Duluth Coffee Company (D) - good coffee
Blackwater Lounge (D) - fancy with good drinks and some yummy eats.
F = Fitger's area, CP = Canal Park, D=Downtown
Annotated Campus map:
Here is an interactive campus map, and here is a parking map. All lots except Gold lots, metered parking and Park Duluth spots are free in the summer.
Note: These lists are purely for the benefit of the participants and solely based on the opinions one or more of the organizers.