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The finale of our Alaska adventure ends eating around Anchorage.

With the most choices for places to eat, we are grateful for recommendations from locals and other travelers.

Moose’s Tooth

Touted as the best pizza in Alaska, make sure your phone’s battery is well charged when visiting Moose’s Tooth. Their popularity ensures a long wait, especially on the weekend.

I order the chicken ranch pizza, because…ranch (and bacon).

It’s a solid chicken ranch.

Shannon gets the meatball pizza. The meatballs are full size, making the pizza quite the gut buster.

Being one of the more subjective foods, and seeing as we ate our fair share of pizza in Alaska, we enjoyed the Moose’s Tooth, but our top, Alaska, pizza is still Prospectors in Denali.

Russian Eats-Anchorage Farmers’ Market

There are some nice, local, farmers’ markets where I live. My only complaint is the lack of eating options.

Not expecting an entire aisle of foodie loving carts and trucks at the Anchorage Market, we eat a hearty breakfast at our B&B. Still, we know we have to try something. Since we have no recollection of ever trying Russian cuisine, we get a piroshki at the Russian Eats truck.

The easiest way to describe a piroshki is that it’s kind of like a Russian empanada.

The outside is a golden, flaky, dream, that houses a mixture of beef, rice, veggies, and spices. The filling has a decent kick, but isn’t overwhelming. If we had more space in our bellies, I would have tried one of the other flavors.

I will certainly keep an eye out for future piroshki eating opportunities.

Hearth and Kaladi Brothers Coffee

After our packed-full-of-toppings pizzas from Moose’s Tooth, we craved something simple from Hearth.

As Hearth emphasizes fresh ingredients. The best way to test freshness in pizza form, is with a classic Margherita.

The crust is thin and crispy. The sauce, light, sweet, with a touch of tang. The cheese is the star of the show. Often with pizza, the cheese adds mostly texture while tasting of the grease it expels. Not that I’m complaining, that grease has deliciousness potential. It is nice however, being able to taste the salty, creamy, with- just- a- touch- of- chewiness on the bite, mozzarella, on our Hearth pizza.

The best part of our lunch at Hearth, is meeting up with Meggan. Meggan and I went to high school together and were in the Drama Club.

Meggan lives in Anchorage. It’s great catching up on the goings on in our current lives and discussing the unique, interesting, experience, that was our time attending a small, private, Christian, high school.

Lunch consumed, but not wanting to end our conversation, we grab a cup of coffee, and settle at an outside table at Kaladi Brothers Coffee.

Staying at a Bed and Breakfast, our morning cup of coffee is provided with breakfast. The coffee at our B&B is good, but I still feel wistful for our experience in Cape Town, trying coffee at a different shop everyday.

My Kaladi Brothers Coffee is an expertly balanced sip of deep, bold, nuttiness.

I’m happy that at least via Meggan, we got to try one coffee shop in Anchorage.

South

While savoring our coffee, Meggan gives us some dinner recommendations.

The description of South sounds just right.

I’m elated when I see one of my favorite food words…tapas.

South is known for their craft gin cocktails. We order one while we mull over the tapas choices.

Everything sounds amazing, so we let South decide for us, picking the pre-fixe tapas sampler.

I could eat the fried artichokes all day, every day. The outside is lightly crisp, while the artichokes remain succulent.

The prettiest chickpeas are set on our table,

followed by tzatziki,  chorizo and caramelized onions, seared beef tips, and shrimp.

Everything is tasted with the utmost deliberation.

Dinner at South is the perfect meal to close out an amazing adventure.

Yeti Dogs

A decent amount of my television viewing is comprised of YouTube travel vloggers.

While visiting Anchorage, vloggers, The Endless Adventure, stop at a food cart called Yeti Dogs. My mouth salivates as I watch from my sofa. They give the reindeer sausage a resounding thumbs up.

I didn’t have much of an eating bucket list prepared for our Alaska trip, all I knew is that I had to eat at Yeti Dogs.

As Yeti Dogs is a food cart/truck, it’s best to hop on the internet to double check their location.

Being summer, we found the truck in Kincaid Park.

Though they have several sausage/hot dog offerings, we have to try the reindeer sausage.

The sausages sizzle on the grill, right before our eyes.

The best part of Yeti Dogs, aside from the scrumptious sausages, is the fixings bar.

You are free to pile up your dog with as many toppings as you like.

I’m a sauerkraut and mustard girl, but I can’t help but give my dog an added, light sprinkle, of shredded cheese.

Reindeer sausage is like a juicer, spicier, kielbasa. It’s so yummy, I only feel a twinge guilty that I was petting their furry little bodies a week earlier.

Our dogs are so delicious, we order another round.

If you’re not comfortable eating the reindeer you may have petted earlier in your trip, don’t worry, Yeti Dogs has a Vegan dog for you.

I’m jealous that the people of Anchorage, get to eat at Yeti Dogs, whenever they like. It certainly made it on our list of favorite meals during our travel year.

We enjoyed every meal we had while in Anchorage. I think what we learned the most during this year of eating, is that sometimes the simplest meals, like Deckhand Dave’s in Juneau, and Yeti Dogs in Anchorage, can be the best meals. And the very best meals, are the ones you get to share with friends.

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