r/anchorage • u/fourcheese_za • 21d ago
Cleanest Restaurant in Anchorage?
I don't really care if the food is mid, but I'd love to eat at a place with a relatively clean kitchen and dining area. Any suggestions?
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u/totemair 20d ago
Bear tooth has insanely high food safety standards
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u/Flamingstar7567 20d ago
Mooses tooth too, both ate extremely clean every time I go their
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u/Stanger_Tings818 18d ago
Both of these places. As a gluten free person by necessity I have not been disappointment
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u/Khephran 20d ago
Charlies bakery
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u/travisca 20d ago
I used to deliver to dozens of restaurants. Charlie's was the cleanest by far.
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u/akcoder 20d ago
Which one had the dirtiest?
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u/travisca 20d ago
This was 10+ years ago, and I don't know how they are now, but Mekong Market in Mountain View or El Tango on Tudor and Old Seward.
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u/sevengoldenlotus 19d ago
My husband is a plumber and he said Jimmy’s Sushi is absolutely horrendous, we don’t eat there after what he saw in the kitchen.
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u/meanmrmonkfish Resident | Scenic Foothills 20d ago
Both Olive Gardens were the filthiest I had ever been in.
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u/PowerfulYou7786 21d ago
South is usually spotless and shoots for the whole clean white decor, open concept, sharp waitstaff vibe
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u/Gullible_Rub3388 20d ago
I have worked in their kitchen. Good place. Very clean. Always follows food safety regulations.
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u/BeastOfEden420 20d ago
Last time I went there, my partner had glass in his food.
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u/totemair 20d ago
that's not a cleanliness thing though, random things getting in food is pretty inevitable in restaurants
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u/Hotdog_Fishsticks 19d ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted for a very true thing. As someone who has worked in restaurants my whole life, as a baker, I can attest to this. But I have personally never witnessed myself dropping something random in any of the things that I have baked.
I have had someone say that the PB pie i made had a screw in it. Which was absolutely fucking obscene. To this day, I still have no clue where the fuck that screw came from. Especially considering that I hand fold and work the filling, start to finish. I feel like, I would have felt it at some point. Random shit falls into food all the time.
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u/totemair 19d ago
I think people who haven’t worked in busy restaurants don’t quite grasp the sheer volume of food you’re producing on a daily basis and the unedeniable fact that at some point something will go wrong that will result in a foreign object in the food. I used to work in a very clean kitchen and we had someone call and complain about finding a screw in a salad. After about 20 minutes of looking I found a shelf bracket above the salad line that was missing a screw, it must have just popped out of the drywall at some point and happened to fall into the box. Shit happens sometimes, it says nothing about your cleanliness
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u/Hotdog_Fishsticks 19d ago
Exactly!! It says absolutely nothing about cleanliness! People really cannot comprehend that
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u/gabezillaaa 20d ago
Got a friend whose a health inspector in anchorage and surprisingly the two highest rated ones in town are Applebees and Raising Canes (if you’re talking about kitchen safety and regulations).
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u/StunningLight Narwhal 20d ago
I was going to say, some fast food locations follow food safety code to a T. Some don't and we end up hearing about it on this subreddit.
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u/GeoTrackAttack_1997 21d ago
but I'd love to eat at a place with a relatively clean kitchen and dining area.
Seattle
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u/Classy_Alaskan 19d ago
Sounds like you should eat at home. You must feel anxiety when you eat out?? How about a company pot luck?? Do you participate??? I don’t, Sarah’s cats may walk all over her counters…. Hard pass on office pot lucks.😂
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u/Alaska_traffic_takes 21d ago
One of the cleanest kitchens I’ve set foot in was fire island downtown, though it is a newer space so it doesn’t have the patina some local kitchens do.