A couple of places not mentioned in Anchorage, that may no longer be in existence, but did serve some decent meals, one being Josephine's at the top of the Sheraton Hotel, the Captain Cook Hotel had the Crow's Nest on the top, as well as a private club of which I was never in, and on the ground floor, the Whale's Tail.
With the city being so multicultural in population, there is a different place for every night to eat out, it seems. Think I read the figure, of 685 licensed eating establishments in the town/borough. Some of my favorites were those with an Asian type menu and ambiance, of which there were many. At one time, while I was living in the Interior and visited Anchorage, way too often with my work, it was in the paper, that Japan Airlines was keeping 58 aircraft crews in Anchorage. Most had their families with them and the airlines even operated a school for their children, in the Japanese language and traditions. Japan Air, was one of the major carriers, that used Anchorage as a stop for fuel, crew changes, resupply, etc. on their way to Europe, and south down the west coast. Many of their flights were freighters, hauling everything from live cattle to boxes of wine, some headed back to Japan and some over the north pole to Europe. So it was not hard to find a place that served excellent Asian foods, from most of the cultures from that part of the world.
There was even an excellent bar b Que place on the old Seward Hwy, went by two initials of the owner, LDs or something like that. The owner was also an Ozark American (formerly known as an Okie) that grew up about 30 miles, from where I was raised. I had eaten there for 10 or 12 years, when on one trip to Anchorage, I found the business had been sold. A few years later, I was in Oklahoma to visit my parents and was driving through the small town of Stratford, just west of Ada, and saw a sign on a bar b que place with the same name, so I had to stop and check it out. Turned out to be the same guy from Anchorage that I knew. He had moved back home.
