Exit Glacier Salmon Bake ...
Pick Your Own Pickles

Exit Glacier Salmon Bake features … pickles! Huge dill pickles that you serve yourself from a pail in a keg. Oh, there is Alaskan salmon on the menu, but it’s the pickle barrel that first caught our eye.

And beer. Beers from Alaskan breweries – Glacier Brewhouse Blonde Ale, Glacier Brewhouse Oatmeal Stout, Moose’s Tooth Fairweather I.P.A., Alaskan Summer Ale, and Alaskan Amber. Plus, beer in cans and beer in long neck bottles, non-alcoholic beer, and root beer.

Exit Glacier Salmon Bake restaurant and pub uses the advertising slogan, “Cheap Beer and Lousy Food.” It’s a catchy slogan that attracts tourists. Alas, it isn’t very accurate. The food wasn’t lousy at all!

Our Coconut Shrimp with Mango Chutney appetizer was anything but lousy. The five shrimp were large prawns. They had a light coconut crust, fried crisp. They were served hot, with a generous dish of chutney.

We skipped the dinner selections and opted for burgers. This gave us the right to choose our pickles from the pickle keg.

The burgers were good. Each came with a side. We had one with French fries and one with baked beans. The fries were hot and crisp. If you don’t want fries, I’d suggest you try the coleslaw or garlic butter rice.

I applaud the cook on the burgers. We asked to have them cooked well done. They were.

Although “Salmon Bake” is in the name, this isn’t an Alaska salmon bake the way I know them. It is a sit down restaurant and pub, with a typical Alaskan menu. Alaskan salmon and halibut are on the menu, along with Alaskan reindeer sausage, a selection of hamburgers, a vegi-burger, salads, and a couple of chicken dishes.

The summer menu also included Alaskan red snapper, razor clams, Prince William Sound oysters, Alaskan Dungeness crab, crab cakes, and calamari.

Wine is available, but no mixed drinks. They have root beer on tap; the menu describes it as “Glacier Brewhouse Old Fashion Root Beer.”

Exit Glacier Salmon Bake is not a fancy place. The décor is new rustic. They served our water in paper cups and our burgers in paper lined plastic baskets. The televisions muffled some of the racket from the nearby noisy children.

We each had a drink. We shared an appetizer. We each had a burger and a side dish. The servings were reasonable, but not overly generous. Total cost was a tad under $30, plus tip.

Exit Glacier Salmon Bake is located a quarter mile down Exit Glacier Road, off the Seward Highway, as you enter Seward, AK. It is open year round, with longer hours during the summer tourist season. Call to find out when they are open; the phone number 907-224-2204.

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