Double Musky Inn - GIRDWOOD

The steak combo was excellent; the steaks are thick and juicy. The shrimp was excellent. The service was the best; normally you get a steak with potatoes; I can 't eat potatoes so I asked for rice which was answered sure we can do that . The dessert was the best, we always save room for dessert. The service is always excellent as is the food.

Last summer, I ate at this restaurant and rated it as one of the best meals I had eaten in Alaska. Having grown up in Louisiana, I had been looking forward to eating there again in great anticipation. Tonight, I was disappointed and would rate it as my least favorite dinner of the three I ate in my three days on vacation in Girdwood. The dinner started out with a small plate of king crab which cost me $50. Last summer, we got the small plate and received two large pieces of crab meat that was delicious. Tonight, I received three small pieces of crab that I would describe as just okay and no bigger than what I could buy back home in Texas at the grocery store. I complained to my waitress and instead of talking to the manager told the chief about our complaint and he responded that I gave an extra leg. To add insult to injury, I saw the crab they served a customer next to me. It was the regular portion and was the biggest piece of crab I had ever seen. The Jambalaya I ordered was not as good. My cocktail I ordered from the bar was disappointing. I walked out of the restaurant very disappointed with the whole experience

Am Anchorage born and raised, and my family has been going to the Double Musky for nearly two decades. We have, until today, considered it the best restaurant in the Anchorage area and considered it a dependable option for special occasions. For instance, we ate here with friends and extended family to celebrate my high school graduation. We speak of the peppersteak to visitors like it 's a mythical thing, and we recommend the place to anyone we know who is visiting Alaska for the first time. But all that is going to change. We visited the Double Musky today for the first time in about five years, and we were incredibly disappointed with the declining quality of food and the treatment we experienced. Since my previous visits, I have become vegan. I frequently feel embarrassed about the difficulties and inconveniences for others that come with having the diet I have, and I do everything I can to minimize those inconveniences. I try, and according to many, succeed, in being the most easygoing vegan they 've met. Therefore, when I go to restaurants that don 't have apparent vegan options, I will take just about anything the kitchen is willing to give me. Despite the Double Musky 's cheese-and-butter-saturated menu in which meats and seafood are the bedrock for each dish, I felt confident coming in with my family because of a TripAdvisor review that mentioned the Double Musky being totally accomodating to a vegan guest. Not to mention that most high-caliber fine dining establishments are used to accommodating customers with special diets, and happy to do so. But when I asked our waitress if anything on the menu could be veganized, she flatly said no. My dad, ever the one to look out for me, pressed and asked Is there nothing the chef can do? The waitress replied, No, there isn 't. He won 't. Then, with an exasperated scoff as though I was being very unreasonable, she offered me a side of steamed vegetables and a dry baked potato. I accepted this arrangement as my only other option was to go completely hungry. To be clear: The dismal excuse for a dinner that I ate at the Double Musky as a vegan is far less of a problem than the condescension that was part and parcel to it. The waitress, perhaps unintentionally, revealed in her interaction with me that the chef was not incapable, but in fact unwilling to modify any menu item for a vegan diet or produce a special meal for such occasions. This revelation made me feel like I was not welcome in that establishment, and that I was actively looked down on by the very people responsible for making guests feel comfortable and happy and well-fed. A restaurant not having an existing vegan menu item is excusable; contemptuously marginalizing special diets at a restaurant charging such high prices for entrees is not. I am far from the only vegan in the world nor will I be the last to visit the Double Musky, especially those of us who have families and friends that do not share our diet, and it depresses me to think that a restaurant that I used to hold in high regard is unabashedly dismissive of guests like me. I almost wish I had invented some health excuse for my special diet (lactose intolerancy, perhaps? just to see if the chef might then deign to stoop to my culinary level. We were determined not to let this poor treatment ruin our evening, though, so I did my best to grin and bear it and hope that my non-vegan family members would each thoroughly enjoy their meals. Seeing them happy would have made the visit more than worth it for me. Unfortunately, I also found myself disappointed in this respect. My family ordered the crawfish dip and the potato skin appetizers, and found the former to be notably less tasty than in the past, with each of them noting the strange difference of the jalapeños in the sauce being pickled. For entrees, they ordered the halibut, the filet, the shrimp pasta, and the peppersteak. There was at least one complaint about every dish. The halibut was served with too little sauce, the filet was served with vegetables that were undercooked, and the shrimp pasta was so disappointing that my mom hardly ate it. She said that it was barely seasoned, oily, and had little flavor or garlic despite being advertised as a garlic-heavy dish. Even the peppersteak, which was by far the most well-received meal, was overcooked. My boyfriend, who ordered the peppersteak, told me, This is good. But I 've eaten at Michelin-star restaurants before with prices like this, and it 's not that good. In the face of all this disappointment, we were all left with the same distinct feeling: The Double Musky has gone downhill. Whatever made it special wnd worth the exorbitant price years ago was now somehow gone. Looking around the restaurant, I was struck with the feeling that this was not truly a fine restaurant, but an overpriced and stuffy mainstay held up by the patronage of aging locals and transient tourists. I grabbed a Subway sandwich on the way out of Girdwood to supplement my non-meal. I doubt we will be coming back.

A friend of mine told me this was his favorite restaurant in the world, so I made sure to stop there. I got there just before 6 o’clock and it was insanely crowded. Not their fault but the way they just let people stand everywhere was kind of crazy. Most places you just wait in line and there’s control. The maître d’ told me I could try and find a spot at the bar. Problem is there were seven people just camped out there with their drinks and one chair was empty. I tried to sit there, but he said it’s for my wife yet she was over in another chair, talking to friends. they sat there for 30 minutes and finally they went and sat at a table where their daughter was already seated. That made no sense. Whatever. The food was going be amazing, right. Sadly wrong. By this time I was just wanting to get some food and be out of there so I ordered two different appetizers and was underwhelmed by both. Someone earlier in the day told me to get the stuffed mushrooms and I’ve had much better elsewhere. Kind of greasy, and the other I got was pepper steak tips that I kind of hated. Only redeeming thing was the jalapeño cheese bread was pretty good. Service from the bartender was also below par. She was definitely more interested in those drinking alcohol than those eating.

Definitely a must if you’re in the area. Amazing food!!! Hubby had the pepper steak and I had the shrimp and scallop cardinal