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  • LOCAL DINING

    The art of restraint

    Chef Reuben Gerber is perched atop Alaska's dining scene, and he loves the view: the grandeur of Alaska's mountains, water and wildlife, the pressure of guiding one of Alaska's most revered restaurants.

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    Hit the deck this summer

    Alaskans like to take advantage of every second of nice weather we're given during the summer. If you see blue skies, you'll see the hiking trails packed, every inch of fishable territory filled, and runners and bikers out in force.

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    Anchorage Museum exhibition includes a one-of-a-kind dining experience

    The Alaska mind ventures to some poetic places when it swims in summer sun and outdoor food. The Anchorage Museum will happily inspire/ enable this creative thinking dining this week when it opens its lawn to the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Pop-Up Restaurant as part of its "True North" exhibition...

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    Memorial Day grill guide

    Even if May, with its partial solar eclipse that was eclipsed by cloudy skies, has been largely stubborn, there's another sure sign summer is here: the familiar smell of grilled meats and fish wafting out of backyards around Anchorage.

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    Cool desserts

    After the winter we just had, you'd think anything with "frozen" in the name may not sound all that appealing. But we're a hardy bunch and we don't let things like sub-zero weather stand in the way of our desserts. In fact, we clamor for cold confections, but no one's screaming for ice cream. ...

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    M.A.'s Gourmet Dogs marks 20 years of selling sausages with a side of friendly sass

    Sunlight and slush, puddles and potholes — the signs of Anchorage spring have returned. For food fans, the tastes and smells of spring have returned too, and perhaps no one is better known for selling sausages and hot dogs locally than Michael Anderson of M.A.’s Gourmet Dogs.

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    Readers make Roadrunner tops

    Last week we published the results of our March Madness hamburger tournament. The idea was to take a field of eight restaurants and match them up head-to-head in a bracket to determine the best burger spot in Anchorage.

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    March madness hits Play staff with battle of Anchorage burgers

    March Madness has dominated the water-cooler talk at Play headquarters for the past month -- mostly about how busted our brackets are. So while the NCAA finishes its basketball season with this weekend's Final Four, we here at Play held our own tournament. The purpose was to answer once and ...

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    Local eateries offer Valentine's Day menus

    The art of the love letter has gone the way of five-cent stamps and the Pony Express. These days, people consider themselves lucky to get a heart emoticon and a smiley face.

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    Restaurants get creative for New Year's Eve

    Prix fixe. Amuse bouche. Roulade and ragout. Confit and consomme. Even the occasional "Auld Lang Syne." New Year's Eve menus sure can be complicated, if not downright foreign for casual diners.

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