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Lake Superior fish and Grand Marais cafés.

Find Grand Marais restaurants for Lake Superior fish, harbor lunches, all-day breakfast, coffee, donuts, and dinner after the Gunflint Trail.

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Special dinner

Birch Terrace Supper Club

A Grand Marais supper-club dining room for American plates and in-house barbecue, with a longer table-service meal and live music on selected weekends.

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Angry Trout Cafe

A small indoor-and-outdoor restaurant in a former fishing shanty on Grand Marais Harbor, known for Lake Superior fish, locally grown produce, and wild rice.

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The Fisherman's Daughter

A harbor fish market and casual counter serving Lake Superior fish, including fish and chips and smoked fish, for a quicker waterfront meal than a sit-down restaurant.

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My Sister's Place

A casual Grand Marais restaurant known for stuffed burgers, wild-rice salads, and the peanut-butter-topped Goober Burger.

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After the outing

Gunflint Tavern

A timber-framed downtown pub with a broad food menu, beer, wine, cocktails, live music, and a seasonal rooftop overlooking the harbor.

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Voyageur Brewing Company

A Grand Marais brewery and taproom near the harbor, centered on its own beer with a compact food menu and a more casual feel than the town’s table-service restaurants.

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Casual meal

Hungry Hippie Tacos

A casual downtown counter for tacos, nachos, smoked meats, local beer, and cider when a quick meal matters more than table service.

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Breakfast / coffee

Blue Water Café

A family-owned downtown café serving breakfast all day plus lunch and dinner, suited to a sit-down morning before the harbor, Gunflint Trail, or a state-park drive.

What Grand Marais does well

Fish, breakfast, tavern food, and local beer call for different stops.

Breakfast and bakery

All-day breakfast or a donut by the harbor

Blue Water Café covers the sit-down morning with coffee and an all-day breakfast menu. A bakery stop is quicker when the lakefront is the morning destination.

Lake Superior fish

A harbor table or a fish-market counter

Angry Trout is the sit-down harbor meal, with regional sourcing and indoor or outdoor tables. Fisherman's Daughter is the casual fish-market stop for fish and chips or smoked fish.

Pub and taproom

Timber-framed tavern or local beer

Gunflint Tavern has a broad pub menu, cocktails, live music, and a seasonal rooftop. Voyageur Brewing is the beer-first stop, with house brews and a compact food menu near the harbor.

Harbor fish

Angry Trout and Fisherman's Daughter are not the same meal.

Angry Trout is a small table-service restaurant beside the harbor, known for Lake Superior fish and regional ingredients. Fisherman's Daughter combines a fish market with a casual counter for fish and chips and smoked fish. The distinction is table service or a quicker market meal.

Beyond the fish counter

Four more distinct Grand Marais meals.

Supper club

Birch Terrace for barbecue and a longer table meal

Birch Terrace serves American plates and in-house barbecue in a supper-club dining room, with live music on selected weekends.

Burgers

My Sister's Place for a playful local menu

Stuffed burgers and wild-rice salads fill the menu; the peanut-butter-topped Goober Burger is the unusual house specialty.

Tacos

Hungry Hippie for counter-service smoked meats

The downtown counter serves tacos, nachos, smoked meats, local beer, and cider with counter service.

Harbor cluster

Four evening options remain walkable from downtown

Angry Trout, Fisherman's Daughter, Gunflint Tavern, and Voyageur Brewing all sit close to the water, so the distinction is food and service style rather than driving distance.