The NEW Channel Club is great! The old place was ok but the new building is beautiful and the service is much better. The new phone number is 907-747-7440. If you call they will come and pick you up and drop you off anywhere in town after you are done eating. We went twice on our visit to Sitka and it was great both times. The pork chop was wonderful, about 3" thick, lightly smoked before grilling, fork tender. They also have an amazing Rib Steak, it was huge, ended up having a second meal from it the next day. Best oysters ever, locally raised. It was nice to find a salad bar too, nice and fresh with two soup choices. They have a full bar and make a mean martini. We ate in several other places while we were in Sitka, this was hands down the best food and service.

The Channel Club is housed in a nice wooden building with sea-view windows out on Halibut Point Road. Moose antlers, trophy fish, nets, and shells line the walls of this very Alaskan place. Sitka's finest steak and lobster Restaurant is typically Alaskan: pricey, but good.

It is unusual in that every meal comes with the salad bar. This is not just any salad bar. The variety of salad both warm and cold is commendable. Consider it salad and an appetizer bar. While you are stewing over your salad selections along the back wall, the menu items are posted on separate signs above your head. The food is grilled and prepared in an open kitchen. The steaks were very tasty, the service excellent, and smoking is allowed only at the bar. The prices are a little steep. Menu items ranged from $12-42, but I noticed that many locals ordered hamburgers and sandwiches. Ask about the sandwich menu if you are interested.

It is a little over halfway to the ferry terminal and a shuttle will pick you up at downtown hotels and even take you to the ferry terminal afterwards. It's close enough to the ferry to enjoy dinner and drinks during a ferry stop.