Restaurants in Juneau
Juneau has a number of excellent restaurants. Besides those detailed below, see two superb choices above, at the Gold Room, in the Baranof Hotel and Zen, in the Goldbelt Hotel Juneau.
For breakfast or lunch, try the Sandpiper Cafe, near the State Museum at 429 Willoughby Ave. (tel. 907/586-3150), with an immaculate dining room recalling a sun-faded beach-front eatery. Breakfast is terrific and reasonably priced. The short lunch menu includes tasty comfort foods and sandwiches, or get breakfast all day. A hamburger is $12. It's open daily 6am to 2pm.
Pizzeria Roma, on the waterfront across the hall from the Hangar at 2 Marine Way (tel. 907/463-5020), produces some of the best pizza and calzones in town in a small dining room. Hours are daily 11am to 10pm in summer.
Quick Bites in Juneau
The Silverbow Bakery, 120 2nd St. (tel. 907/586-4146; www.silverbowinn.com), is a happening spot for bagels, hearty sandwiches, and espresso drinks. It's open long hours every day. The Rainbow Foods natural food grocery, an organic hangout in a former church at the corner of Franklin and 4th streets (tel. 907/586-6476; www.rainbow-foods.org), is the best picnic-packing place downtown, making sandwiches and salads at the deli and with a buffet and salad bar. It's also a good place to network with a socially conscious crowd and is a Wi-Fi hot spot.
Hot Bite, at the Auke Bay boat harbor, is a local secret, serving charcoal-broiled hamburgers and halibut burgers and great milkshakes from a run-down little house. Take out or sit at one of six indoor tables.
Downtown Juneau's young, professional population supports several good coffeehouses. Valentine's Coffee House and Pizzeria, 111 Seward St. (tel. 907/463-5144), serves light, hot meals in an authentic old-fashioned storefront. Heritage Coffee Co. and Café, 174 S. Franklin St. (tel. 907/586-1087; www.heritagecoffee.com) and 216 2nd St. (tel. 907/586-1752), has two trendy, comfortable coffeehouses good for watching people. The 2nd Street location has wireless Internet and terminals. They also roast famous coffee.
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Chan’s Thai Kitchen
Delicious, authentic cuisine is served in a simple setting (a small, overlit dining room in a half-basement_ that somehow adds to the experience of discovery. Few tourists make it here, but locals love the place.$Auke Bay - Seafood
Gold Creek Salmon Bake
On a nice evening, it can be fun to join this picnic on Salmon Creek, where you can see fish spawning in season. Alaska Travel Adventures buses pick up diners and bring them for wood-grilled salmon and to hear local musicians, try panning for gold, or take a walk to a waterfall.$$$Salmon Creek - Pizza
Island Pub
Locals cross the bridge from Juneau for a night out and surprisingly good food at this rough-and-ready pub with a brick oven. The menu doesn’t stop at pizza but offers a variety of interesting, roasted choices. The water view is terrific.$Douglas - Italian
Tarentino's
Right amid the sights downtown, this traditional family restaurant offers big meals prepared well for reasonable prices, mostly taken from the familiar list of Italian dishes.$Downtown - Continental
The Gold Room
Juneau’s most traditional fine-dining establishment is in the Baranof Hotel, long an annex to the capitol for legislators and lobbyists. The intimate dining room is decorated in an opulent art deco style, and the menu includes various cuts of beef, and seafood such as scallops in…$$$Around Town - Grill
The Hangar
This lively bar and grill occupies a converted airplane hangar overlooking Gastineau Channel. The food is above average, prices are reasonable, service is quick, and the noisy atmosphere and broad selection of beers are conducive to a good time.$$Gastineau Channel - Seafood
Twisted Fish Company
This summer-only restaurant is next to the cruise-ship dock, but it’s no tourist trap—the dining room is gorgeous, with high ceilings, interesting decoration, and great views. The menu contains good, unexpected choices, such as salmon in pastry or in a taco. And the service is…$$Around Town - Asian Fusion
Zen
The lobby restaurant at the Goldbelt Hotel, Zen strives for "Ring-of-Fire" chic. With its polished black river stone, protruding bamboo stalks, and flowy ceiling fabric, you know the owners are trying to bring a little minimalist West Coast cool to Juneau. In its mind, it’s doing the…$$Around Town - Mediterranean
Zyphyr Restaurant
This traditional fine-dining establishment has a magnificent sense of style, with wooden floors, very high ceilings, and tables widely separated in dim light for extra privacy. The service is expert and full of character, and the food is memorable and flawless.$$Around Town
