Norton Sound Seafood House — Restaurant in Alaska

I figured that stopping at Norton Sound Seafood would be my last chance to try to get fresh, Alaskan salmon, being that the salmon that I ordered at Fletcher's was basically a piece of dry, overpriced rubber. Wrong.

Boy was I wrong!

There were only two other tables in the restaurant. A man sitting at the bar and a couple sitting at a table. Other than those two checks, I was nearly a lone diner in the entire restaurant.

Though I was one of only two other parties, the hostess sat me in the back, near the kitchen door, next to a table where all of the staff-on-break were sitting, laughing, and gossiping. I wasn't in the mood to hear their un-busy staff giggling and gossiping about other people, so I asked the hostess if I could move to a table where I wasn't tucked away into a dark, back, corner, with the staff. In the "Colored Only" section.

I ordered the Alaskan Salmon burger and after waiting for my food for nearly 45 minutes, a waitress brought me the order, along with the explanation that the food took so long because I moved tables. So there was an attempt to gaslight me into believing that I somehow created the situation for a salmon burger to take 45 minutes to prepare. Though there were only 2 other checks in the entire restaurant.

I caused that by moving to a better suited table.

The piece of salmon that was the salmon burger was so overcooked that the color was an unnatural neon pink, a cartoon-like neon pink that nearly glowed in the dark. I had such a hard time masticating its overcooked, dry, chewy consistency, that I was unable to finish the burger. I just left it. As much as I wanted to eat it, it was so poorly prepared that I just gave up on it. At least the fries weren't bungled.

After waiting 45 minutes for that meal, I understood why it took 45 minutes.

The chef was probably cooking that one piece of salmon for the WHOLE 45 minutes. He just put it on the fire and left it, came out to the dining room and started walking around on the concourse. Looking lost.

Extremely poor service here and even worse food. I wouldn't recommend this restaurant to my enemy. My airline had better food and I didn't have...

This is hands down the worst, most overpriced airport food I’ve ever had; straight out of prepackaged, frozen box and seemingly thrown in a microwave before serving. I ordered the “spice-rubbed Alaskan halibut with parmesan red bliss potatoes and glazed carrots” and a “fresh spring greens salad.” What I got was so bad I took pictures. The salad was wilted horribly with 2 pieces of end-of-the-pepper, mushy green peppers (okay, it’s Alaska, so I was willing to let that go). The potatoes were a pitiful scoop (literally ice-cream scooper ball of potatoes) with cold shredded parmesan thrown on top like they shook it out of a Kraft grocery-store-bought bag without even heating it. The carrots seemed shaken out of a grocery-store-bought bag of baby carrots and thrown in the microwave with a little butter and brown sugar, were terribly undercooked, and nothing about them was glazed. The fish was the worst though, and I’m not even sure they didn’t serve me a frozen piece of store-bought Morton’s boxed cod, but even if it was halibut, it was awful, rubbery, overly fishy tasting, and SMALL. The “spice rubbed” description only matches in the way it matches those frozen squares of fish you shake out of a box of “lemon pepper” or “zesty Italian” mass produced frozen fish. This was clearly a zero-effort, everything from frozen old boxed items, rip off of a meal. This was a $45 expense before tip (and I tipped well because the sweet woman serving everyone was the only thing going right for that place). It was so bad a meal I texted pictures to friends- and I posted a pic of my meal on here; you’ll recognize it by the ball of potatoes with cold shredded parmesan thrown on top... Do yourself a favor and find another spot to eat in an otherwise really...

Awesome service, okay food BUT the service and wine was delightful indeed and i would most definitely eat here again should I find myself at Anchorage airport again! I had a Caesar salad with salmon (not on the menu but around $7 for each of those items individually) and the Caesar dressing was amazing! My salmon was definitely over cooked and dry but honestly, drenched in some sriracha and a dash of salt, I was quite pleased!

The only negative aspect was a middle aged bartender with longish white hair talking down to my bartender Renee who was just so lovely and pleasant. I was reading my favorite book and my exchanges with her were just what I’d like at such a place - she was kind but not annoyingly friendly as she was very aware of the fact that I was quite engaged in my reading! I overall enjoyed my meal tremendously and spent close to an hour there, somewhat perking up anytime the man was talking or acting uppity! It sounded like he was fairly new but telling this lady where HE felt the tables should be divided, though it seemed like something that was usually predetermined and set. I felt bad for her, it sounded like he wanted to just take the more populated area away from her… I’m not usually paying attention to that type of thing but he would say stuff so loudly I couldn’t help but hear it and it upset me to hear this new hire speaking so condescendingly to a woman who could clearly hold...