Mount Royal Fine Foods

Mt. Royal boasts a Caribou coffee, first class deli, and extensive sushi, soup and salad bars. Gorgeous housewares, plates and place settings, candles, plants and cut flowers. Let’s face it, it’s more like an Edina shopping experience than anything else in Duluth. More upscale. Clean. Oh! Did we fail to mention it’s a grocery store too. Butchers stand on the ready to custom cut your meat, staff are not put out to share samples of produce, and like the co-op, Mt Royal does a good job showcasing and selling local products.  Clean-cut baggers and drive-up service harken back to the good ol’ days. It says something about our readership that Walmart, Sam’s Club and Target did not garner a single vote in this category.

2nd Place: Whole Foods Co-op