Phyllis's Cafe & Salmon Bake, Anchorage

Since 1989, Phyllis’s Cafe & Salmon Bake has injected their traditional steakhouse lunches and dinners with local Alaskan charm. Elk, buffalo, and reindeer meat are served alongside traditional steaks and burgers and a selection of large salads that provide a lighter meal. Seafood ranges from the eatery’s eponymous salmon—in red, silver, and king varieties—to their signature chowder, infused with clams, hearty chunks of halibut, shrimp, and crab and served in a sourdough bread bowl. Alaskan beers, along with wines culled from the Pacific Northwest, round out meals with coastal flavors more robust than the area beaches’ palate-cleansing sand.