joe b wrote:
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.
Anchorage is a great meeting place for freighter pilots from all over. I used to be one of them for a few years back in the nineties. If you fly freight and haven't seen someone for a few years, your best chance of meeting up with them will probably be in Anchorage or Narita Japan. At that time, some favorite haunts around the Anchorage Hilton were, F Street Station, Darwin's Theory, Blondies for breakfast, Sweet Basil for a good soup and sandwich, and Simon and Seaforts for something more up scale.
The Hilton also had a pretty good pub style sports bar with decent food but got remodeled and became a little too trendy for mere freight dogs.
For a great BLT and soup in Lynden WA, try Dutch Mothers. The sandwiches are so big, DW and I split one with an extra order of soup.
