Skagway Restaurant Review

Part 6

The Sweet Tooth Cafe

In just about every town in Alaska, there is a local restaurant that’s been around since the old days. What are the old days? That’s when restaurants served bacon and eggs in the morning and burgers and fries in the afternoon. In other words, when America had pizzazz. These local Alaskan restaurants are also known for lively local political discussion, which means you can learn all about the failings of local government while you wolf down pancakes smothered in syrup. Here in Skagway, that restaurant is called the Sweet Tooth Cafe.

Just don’t take the local boy’s table or they’ll gossip about you.

The Sweet Tooth is another locally-owned restaurant open year-round

The Sweet Tooth is a place where you can enjoy a hot breakfast or lunch with your family. Best of all, while you eat you can listen to the hardest working men in Skagway sit and drink coffee for four hours while they gossip about the mayor. And I’m going to tell you that there’s nothing more “small town Alaska” than that. But what makes the Sweet Tooth truly special is that you’re eating at a locally-owned business that’s open year-round. Supporting these businesses makes you a good person and as an added bonus, you get to eat some quality down-home cooking.

The Sweet Tooth serves breakfast and lunch and sometimes they open late at night for the bar crowd, but that’s only in the summer. Let’s break each service down one-by-one, so you can choose what you want to order before you walk through that door.

Breakfast is a time for coffee and delicious food

After I eat breakfast, I want to feel like I ate something. Have you ever watched someone drinking a smoothie or eating a bran muffin for breakfast and just shook your head in utter disgust? Me too. The Sweet Tooth solves this problem by serving good breakfast foods like bacon, sausage, eggs, and chicken fried steak smothered in gravy. You get toast with your meal and it’s homemade. You read that right. You can eat homemade sourdough, white, rye, or wheat bread with your breakfast. I like to dip my toast in the runny egg because I’m very smart.

They’ve also got some incredible homemade sweets (duh, what’s their name?) like cream puffs and doughnuts, and… Oh man… I’ll be right back… I’m going to go get me a doughnut.

Lunch is the next meal of the day, plus milkshakes

Lunch is my favorite midday meal and the Sweet Tooth knows how to knock it out of the park. They have a large selection of homemade hot and cold sandwiches like burgers, corned beef, and halibut. They also make their own soups, which is amazing in this day and age. You get fries with those sandwiches and I am not ashamed to say they are the best fries in town. Probably because they cut up their own potatoes instead of pouring them out of a frozen bag.

I like start with a cup of split pea soup and then get the patty melt sandwich with toasted rye bread for my main course. The french fries always seem to magically disappear. If you ever eat with me and try to get a fry off of my plate, you’re going to lose a finger. Consider yourself warned. I wash it all down with black coffee because I am a rugged mountaineer. When I’m done, I sit back and listen to the sweet sounds of disgruntled middle age Alaskan men complaining about the government. And I don’t have to be sitting nearby to hear them!

Look at this. LOOK AT IT!

What a life. Did I mention the milkshakes? If you care about yourself at all, you should suck down a milkshake because you’re on vacation and you can. The inside of the Sweet Tooth is quite lovely and you can eat at the old-timey breakfast bar or at a table. Be sure to sit near the window if you want to hear who had to do the walk of shame last night.

Be an Alaskan for breakfast or lunch and find out why we’re so awesome

The Sweet Tooth is what Alaska is all about, and that’s why it’s been around so long. If you’re visiting Skagway off of the cruise ships, stop in for a bite, meet some locals, and enjoy a frosty milkshake. There ain’t nothing better than that.

Review – 45 cream puffs

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