Restaurants in Southeast Alaska
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Hangar on the Wharf
A waterfront restaurant in Merchant's Wharf with tables perched right over a seaplane dock. The view of the channel and all the activity buzzing and floating around greatly improves whatever you ordered. Better than the food is the restaurant's large selection of imported beers and microbrews.
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Bullwinkle's
Okay, they have this strange fascination with a moose and his friend, Rocky the flying squirrel. But they're doing something right at Bullwinkle's - it's Juneau's oldest pizza parlor. No doubt it's the cheap pitchers of beer (around US$8 to $13.75).
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Starfire
Order pad Thai or spicy drunken noodle here and then enjoy it with a beer on the outdoor patio.
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Taku Glacier Lodge
Juneau has several salmon bakes. Though aimed primarily at tourists, they provide great food (hard to go wrong with fresh salmon) with an experience conveying the flavor of frontier Alaska. Taku Glacier Lodge is reached via a 15-minute floatplane flight up Taku Inlet, and allows you to combine flightseeing, glacier viewing and a salmon bake in one excursion.
The tour lasts three hours and is a little pricey for a salmon dinner, but a much better experience and cheaper than taking a helicopter to the ice field. Sign up at the lodge's booth on Juneau's waterfront, behind Merchant's Wharf.
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Haven Café
The aptly named coffeehouse is removed from the heart of the fray and makes a great place to kick back and plan your next move. Inside, a sofa and wooden floorboards create a warm ambience, while soft music plays on the sound system. A bulletin board in the foyer provides insight into local life, and the café often hosts special events (live music, poetry reading etc). Oh yeah, the espresso is potent and the panini sandwiches and salads are large.
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Bamboo Room
Another longtime Haines survivor with a footnote in history: CBS newsman Charles Kuralt once ate here. The blueberry hotcakes come smothered in whipped cream and syrup, and will kick-start your day with a sugar buzz that will last until noon. For dinner, mingle with locals in the adjoining Pioneer Bar for a beer and then indulge in a plate of steamed Dungeness crabs served whole.
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Sabrosa Café & Bakery
Tucked away just off Broadway St, this small café - four tables outside, four inside - is easy to miss but shouldn't be. Its vegetarian choices, from Rockin' Vegetarian Chili to spicy veggie tacos, are extensive and its King Ranch Casserole (layers of corn tortillas, roasted chicken and cheese) will give you the get-up-and-go to face five cruise ships at once.
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That One Place
The owners of Bar Harbor Restaurant have turned the café at the New York Hotel into one of the best places for breakfast or lunch. Practically everything on the lunch menu is seafood related. Let's face it - if you're in Alaska long enough you'll eventually order halibut tacos. You might as well do it here, where the locals rave about them.
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Di Sopra
The Fiddlehead's upstairs dining room is Juneau's best upscale effort. The Italian restaurant features white-linen tablecloths, Mediterranean-mustard walls, a Chianti-colored carpet and a wine list that has been honored by Wine Spectator magazine. Most of the tables are along a wall of windows with a view of bustling Juneau below.
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Lighthouse Restaurant
Major renovation in 2005 included bay windows to highlight the restaurant's best asset, a table overlooking a bustling boat harbor. The seafood-laden menu has also been upgraded with mains such as buttery, rich ginger sable fish with a coconut-wasabi sauce and blackened sockeye salmon that was netted by the local fleet in Lynn Canal.
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Commander's Room
Located in Hotel Halsingland in Fort Seward is Haines' most upscale restaurant. There's white tablecloths, a fine wine list and a chef who has a herb garden out back. Begin the evening with a drink in its cozy Officer's Club Lounge. Tired of seafood? Try the butternut-squash ravioli served with hazelnut brown butter and sage sauce.
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Costa's Diner
A bizarre little breakfast nook with a counter and stools inside and three tables in the hallway of the Merchant's Wharf. The food is good, the portions huge and there's no cash register. After finishing off a plate of eggs and smoked-salmon hash, you merely toss your money into a huge brass bucket on the counter and wave goodbye.
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Doc Water's Pub
- Juneau, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
If the Hangar doesn't put you close enough to the water head next door where you can grab an outside table complete with seagulls. Dinner is served until 01:00, but this is a better place to linger in the late afternoon sun drinking beer and devouring the pub's Big Island burger (teriyaki sauce, pineapple salsa and Swiss cheese).
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Soup Queen
You'll find hot-dog vendors all over downtown Juneau but pass them up for the Soup Queen, holding court in a small shack-on-wheels on the dock at the edge of Merchant's Wharf. Soups - like Thai fish chowder and andouille lentil - are made nightly and explode with flavor by the time the queen ladles them out the next day.
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Steamers at the Dock
The view from this waterfront restaurant's 3rd-floor perch is wonderful if there's not a cruise ship docked in front of it, which is usually the case during the summer. The menu features many unusual seafood dishes - crab-stuffed oysters among them - while at the bar they pour an excellent selection of microbrews.
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Pel'Meni
It serves one thing and one thing only - a bowl of authentic homemade Russian dumplings, filled with either potato or sirloin. Night owls will like the hours, record buffs will be amazed by the wallful of LPs (remember those?) and a turntable, providing music while you wait for your order.
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Olivia's
The extensive garden outside the Skagway Inn is a good indication of how fresh the mains are inside. Staff members don't waste time cooking fish-and-chips at this bistro; lunch is a fixed-priced meal, dinner is a choice of four mains. The chicken pot pie sounds plain but it's delicious.
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Tonka Seafoods
A boutique processor that sells fresh salmon, delightful smoked fish and ready-to-eat Petersburg shrimp. If you're really intrigued about seafood processing there's also an hour-long tour of its small cannery operation at 13:30 Monday to Saturday that ends with a seafood sampling.
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Douglas Café
One of two good restaurants in Douglas worth waiting for the bus for. Serves almost 20 different types of burgers, each weighing in at a third of a pound. Can't make up your mind? Go with the local favorite, the Douglas Burger (ham, sautéed mushrooms and Swiss cheese).
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Local Catch
- Haines, USA
- Restaurants › Café
Near Fort Seward is this small shed with a big deck and outdoor tables. Here you'll find your morning latte, as well as interesting Thai, vegetarian and breakfast fare like the popular Big 'O' Burrito, a tortilla overflowing with eggs, potatoes, cheese and homemade salsa.
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Van Winkle & Sons
Sitka's longtime proprietor of seafood serves up such specialties as Dungeness crab cakes, seafood soufflé and even a pizza covered with shrimp and scallops. Its 2nd-floor location and wall of windows allows you to dine to a view of Sitka's island-studded harbor.
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Fiddlehead Restaurant
Juneau's longtime favorite has excellent food, a healthy variety of vegetarian and a fresh-and-creative 'California cuisine' approach to every dish - like breakfast offering 'Sylvia's Mom's Favorite': two eggs, cheddar cheese, guacamole and sour cream over brown rice.
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Heritage Coffee Co & Café
- Juneau, USA
- Restaurants › Café
Juneau's most popular coffeehouse, for good reason. The coffee is great, the sofas comfortable and with the purchase of an espresso drink you get free Internet. The company also has several other cafés, including another one downtown at 216 2nd St.
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Chico's
From the minute you walk in you know this small downtown cantina serves good burritos and tacos by its colorful Mexican-themed interior. But when you open the menu you discover it also serves a decent pizza. Hey, they're just trying to make a living.
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Northern Lights Restaurant
This reliable standby offers steak, chicken, seafood and pasta, which can be enjoyed to a view of the busy boat harbor. The seafood platter has halibut, crab cakes and a half-pound of shrimp, all of it locally caught, none of it deep-fried.
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