Restaurants in Anchorage

Since 1999, The Marx Bros. Café and chef de cuisine Jonah Cotter have joined forces at Muse to assemble Pacific Northwestern dishes spiced with influences from Asia and Europe. This culinary team drizzles bright, citrusy sauces over fresh coastal seafood, sears high-quality steaks and cuts of venison, and bakes decadent desserts in-house. Servers shuttle each carefully crafted plate to the vibrant, contemporary dining room, where floor-to-ceiling windows and candy-red pillars surround mod crimson chairs. This dramatic design is no doubt influenced by Muse’s location in the Anchorage Museum, where art, history, and science exhibits are designed to instill a deep understanding of the human experience. The restaurant encourages diners to schedule reservations that coordinate with museum events, or to rent the dining room for private parties and games of pin the tail on the Picasso.

At Chiang Mai Ultimate Thai Restaurant, it's all about finessing four fundamental flavors: hot, sour, sweet, and salty. When in balance, these elements forge the cooking styles common to Thailand and Southeast Asia––and to Chiang Mai Ultimate Thai Restaurant. The restaurant has recently revamped its lengthy menu, which is populated with a slew of curry, fried rice, and seafood dishes. Long, faux-marble tabletops on wooden legs bare steaming housemade soups, as well as morsels of fresh lamb, duck, and scallops over stir-fried noodles. After sopping up the last of a traditional curry entree, patrons can recline in a cozy velvet booth to enjoy homemade banana dumplings or build a log cabin out of chopsticks to avoid ever having to leave.

Unlike most siblings, Sara’s Too shares almost everything with its sister outlet, the well-known Sara’s Sandwich Shop on Arctic, including its specialty sandwiches and sandwich components on the menu. For make-your-own sandwiches, customers base their creations on a selection of nine breads, including white and wheat sub rolls crafted by local bakery The French Oven and light, airy croissants. Fresh veggies, including pickles from Boar’s Head, add texture and crunch to sandwiches as diners bask in the natural light let in by large windows. A selection of cold cuts and salads beef up sandwiches with premium selections including genoa salami, smoked turkey, and egg salad. The deli also builds predesigned sandwiches from the specialty menu, which includes a hot french dip with mushrooms and provolone, a meatball sub, and a teriyaki-chicken sandwich served with pineapple but without chopsticks.

Thirty years ago, the Ramos family set out to establish a Mexican eatery that would reflect the hospitality of their own home and feature a menu replete with south-of-the-border staples such as tacos, fajitas, and chimichangas. The fruits of their early labors have since multiplied, and today Don Jose's Mexican Restaurant & Cantina flourishes in three locations. Known for its tangy margaritas and extensive selection of burritos and chimichangas, the restaurant also caters to heartier appetites with macho combos such as the El Presidente, a beef and cheese chili relleno served with a tamale, chicken flauta, and lengthy trade agreement to peruse throughout the meal.

The now-nationwide franchise Ling and Louie's Asian Bar and Grill began with a love story. After graduating from college, an Ohio-born ballplayer travelled to Shanghai to visit his childhood foreign-exchange companion. While there, he fell in love with his friend’s cousin, whose stunning beauty was matched by her expert culinary skills. To win her heart, the young American took a job as a busboy and bartender at her family’s restaurant. The two eventually married and traveled throughout China before heading to the United States to settle down. The couple then opened Ling and Louie’s, where they serve up a marriage of Asian and American flavors in a lively atmosphere set to the soundtrack of classic rock.

In the kitchen, chefs labor over steaming woks, whipping up innovative dishes, such as the Korean-style sizzling salmon and the American-style meatloaf sliders, that have won the praise of the Anchorage Daily Planet. In addition, drink options include sake, sake-infused cocktails, more than 30 wines by the glass, 15 beers on tap, and more than 30 different bottles of beer.

Domino’s has been decorating dough canvases with flavorful sauces, an assortment of cheeses, and high-quality toppings that range from classic to unconventional since 1960. Domino’s dough is tossed daily and stretched by human hands, not by clumsy catapults and model airplanes flying in opposite directions. Treat friends to a tasteful feast by checking the online menu and crafting a custom masterpizza with Domino's wide range of ingredients. Famished diners too starved to choose their own toppings can select from Domino’s American Legends, featuring signature flavors from throughout the land. Pizzas such as the Pacific Veggie, Honolulu Hawaiian, or Wisconsin 6 Cheese impart all the delicious diversity of a road trip without the hassle of decoding an atlas. Nonpizza food includes pastas, sandwiches, and breadsticks.