Anchorage restaurant sales are reportedly down 30 to 40 percent this year, according to operators quoted by Alaska Public Media. And yet the same stretch of months has produced one of the busiest openings calendars downtown and midtown have seen in a while. That gap is the story of the summer. New places are betting on this city at exactly the moment the margins got thinner, which means the ones that stick around are going to be the ones residents show up for now.
If you live here, this post is a shortlist. Where to go that opened in the last few months, what's on the July calendar that's worth building a Saturday around, and one closure that quietly changes the map in South Anchorage.
The openings worth a first visit
The two openings with the most local backstory both came from food trucks.
