DULUTH – An overnight kitchen fire caused an estimated $75,000 in damage to a restaurant in Duluth's Lincoln Park neighborhood Thursday morning, the Duluth Fire Department said, and a reignited "hot spot" caused another $25,000 in damage Thursday afternoon.
Flames were seen coming through a ventilation duct behind Spoon's Bar & Grill at 2113 W. Superior St. around 2:30 a.m., and firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the fire, which was contained to the kitchen.
No one was in the building at the time, and no injuries were reported.
A second fire was put out after smoke was again spotted coming from the building at 11:30 a.m.
"Fire officials believe that the fire reignited in an open space between the kitchen and the stack house after crews left the scene this morning," the Fire Department said in a news release.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Spoon's opened late last year in what was formerly Mitch's Bar & Grill in the fast-developing Lincoln Park Craft District.
Brooks Johnson
