American Restaurants
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Strawberry Patch
The extensive menu here includes a litany of entirely homemade items: Belgian waffles, eggs with hollandaise sauce, crab omelettes and numerous strawberry concoctions.
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Fast Eddy's
Perhaps the most famous eatery on the Alcan, big and bustling Fast Eddy's is a step above your average diner. It seems everyone who drives the highway stops in here.
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Mount Vernon Inn
A Colonial-style restaurant on the grounds of Mount Vernon serving traditional lunches and candlelit dinners, including roast turkey with cranberry sauce year-round.
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Anthony’s Diner
While hanging around the large counter, try the mountain-size Vermont woodsman burger. The homemade soups, chowders and desserts are a deserved source of pride.
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Scandal
Scandal is a brash American dream, part Wild West, part Mae West, where charcoal-grilled steaks are as big as states. The spare ribs and brownies are legendary.
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Boogie Woogie
This hugely popular but by no means spectacular food factory serves American and European fodder amid pop memorabilia set to get guests tapping their toes.
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BayView Restaurant
A casual place that serves large portions, keeps the coffee cup filled and has 14 different types of hamburgers on the menu, even one called Basic Burger.
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Grand Marie's Chicken Pie Shop
You can get tasty chicken potpies here, or you can order heaping breakfasts and other all-American fare. This Tower District haunt does three meals daily.
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Las Colinas del Sur
Out past the Mercado Municipal, it's best to take a taxi to this locally revered hole in the wall, with delicious guapote, at reasonable prices.
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Beachcomber Inn
This wonderful restaurant is built on pilings over the sea so every table has a fabulous maritime-and-mountain view.
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Serendipity 3
At this pink candy-striped soda fountain, sink your sweet tooth into frozen hot chocolate and opulent ice-cream sundaes. Skip the so-so grill menu.
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Flying Star Café
This incredibly popular local chain draws flocks with perennial favorites alongside innovative main courses. There's an extensive breakfast menu, sumptuous desserts, free wi-fi and creative, comfortable decor. It's pushed over the top of the groovy scale with organic, free-range and antibiotic-free ingredients.
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Ships
Inside the Sabrina Court hotel, this nautically themed restaurant offers a menu of Western dishes including fish and chips, steak, and lamb chops.
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Palomino Room
Downtown, the dark and moody Palomino Room, on the site of the historic Tremont Hotel, has tasty steaks and burgers and a cool cowboy ambience.
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Front Porch Cafe
A blue-and-white escape from the madness of the cruising scene, the Porch has been serving excellent salads, sandwiches and the like since 1990 (eons by South Beach standards). Weekend brunch is justifiably mobbed; the big omelets are delicious, as are the fat pancakes and strong coffees.
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Joannie’s Blue Crab Café
This quintessential shack, east of Ochopee, with open rafters, shellacked picnic tables and alligator kitsch serves OK food on paper plates.
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Chichería Paris
If you need a snack after climbing all those guard towers at La Fortaleza, stop here for vigarón and other traditional treats.
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Annabelle's
This is a chowder house with a 1920s decor. When the cruise-ship passengers arrive, this place packs 'em in tighter than a tin of sardines.
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Jerry's Drive-In
Look for the pig sign outside of this roadhouse-meets-diner (not a drive-in, though it was when it opened in 1939), serving up fat omelettes, juicy burgers, milkshakes and plenty of daily specials under the kitschy neon signs. You'll rub elbows with serious regulars – the kind that get greeted by first name – especially at lunchtime, when the place gets packed.
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CL & Harry's
A classy sort of place with a rustic, exposed brick dining room, CL & Harry's sizzles up steaks and chops and other American fare.
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Verandah
Upper-crust oasis feels far away from the ding-ding-ding of slot machines. Enjoy a light country-club menu and poolside patio seating.
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Grandma's House
Grandma's is popular for its home-style cooking. It's east of downtown between Main St and I-5. Look for the cutesy gingerbread house.
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Boudro's
Boudro's is the locals' riverside favorite for upscale Texas tastes. Try the quail stuffed with poblano peppers, apricots and corn.
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Rosticería J3
Inside this mini mall, enjoy outdoor tables and excellent service over big plates of typical food; the chicken in salsa is great.
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Redamak’s
After you’ve been surfing, refuel at this burgers-and-beer roadhouse dating from the 1940s. The spicy curly fries reign supreme.
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