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Awesome Hash Browns in a Quasy Funky Diner

  • September 23, 2008
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Seaotter71 from Monterey, California
Awesome Hash Browns in a Quasy Funky Diner

After a nice long walk on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, I came across Snow City Café. My cabbie had recommended it, and the long line outside told me something good was happening inside. I decided to check it out and snagged a seat and the counter (bypassing a wait time of over an hour for a table).

The décor is college student dinner. Distinct dinner booths, tables, and counter balanced with brightly colored walls, funky artwork, and snowflakes and Christmas ornaments hanging from the ceiling to round out the snowy theme. Lightly tattooed and pierced college aged kids hustle to keep the onslaught of dinners happy and fed without loosing the friendly vibe.

The pancakes apparently are not from scratch, so I went for the make your own omelet, which seems to be what everyone around me is having. I opt for mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, harvatti cheese, and reindeer sausage. Cmo’n, like I was going to order any other kind of meat while in Alaska! The omelet was big and the reindeer sausage tasty. Of course, being sausage I’m not sure I can say what reindeer truly tastes like. It was bit of a cross between pork and turkey. A good thing in my book.

The real revelation was the hash browns. Wow. Beneath a layer of crispy shredded potatoes the rest were closer to mashed than hashed. Yummy!

Breakfast at Snow City Café is the perfect breakfast to sustain you through a long day of sightseeing. If you get there late though, be prepared to wait or opt for the counter.

From journal Anchorage in the Fall

Snow City Cafe

  • January 17, 2006
  • Rated 5 of 5 by smbslt42 from Springfield, Ohio
Snow City Cafe remains one of my favorite places to eat in Alaska and would be great for a mixed vegetarian/omnivore/picky group, since you can get the standard bacon with your eggs, or tofu, or veggie sausage, or caribou sausage, etc. And when the menu says BIG pancakes, they aren't kidding--they are the size of a dinner plate. My only wish is that they were open later, as they are only open for breakfast and lunch. (I think they are sometimes open later for special events.) It is a great place to hang out.

From journal 2 Weeks in Alaska

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