Red Spruce — Restaurant in Juneau

Updated 2024.11.03. It's been a while since I have updated on this listing. Their menu keeps changing. Their latest offering of the French Onion Soup for USD 13 is excellent tasting, especially with the pretzel croutons and sweet onions in a rich beef broth just entices my palate. Nothing spicy for once, just all flavor. Don't always like what they offer, especially if it's even slightly spicy.

Updated 2023.03.04. Red Spruce no longer imposes a 3% credit card fee. Ordered the Royale Burger $17 which consists of ground beef and pork, includes fries. It was overcooked, not juicy.

They promote themselves as global street food. The food quality continues to be variable. Sometimes the food ordered tastes good, sometimes not for the same thing ordered before. The first time we tasted their Pad Thai was very good, the last time we tasted it wasn't nearly as desirable. Same with their smash burger. What's constant is their annoying 3% fee added for each credit card transaction. We tired of their food quality and would now prefer to dine nearby at the Hot Bite when they're open, then come over for Forbidden Peak beer and nitro coffee afterwards. Hot Bite food is more consistent and prices are slightly better, plus there's no fee using a credit card at the Hot Bite.

Red Spruce is a relatively new eatery located inside Forbidden Peak Brewery, open daily 1100-2000. We wanted to taste what their food is like. You order and pay at the window, you take a tag which keeps falling down if you're sitting outside with any wind.

The food took quite some time after ordering before it arrived as we didn't time it. The Salmon Burger USD 13 was quite small and not great. You do much better with frozen salmon burgers from Costco. The Pad Thai (small USD 10, large USD 22, add chicken USD 4 or 8, pork belly USD 3 or 6, tofu USD 2 or 4, to burn USD 2) was very good, quite tasty, that I would recommend.

They charge 3% additional for using a credit card,...

Wanted some food with my excellent beer from Forbidden Peak. what did I get?

Greasy overcooked corndog that was bland and boring and took 30 minutes, 20 minutes later the rest of the order arrived. Boring fries that tasted like raw chili powder, and a cold "smash burger" that was two tiny hocky pucks with sauce dumped on between two soggy buns half toppled over.

50 minute wait for food to go with your beer, served on paper plates, not all together, soggy, overcooked, over priced. Absolutely astounding that it costs $11 for a tiny soggy slider sitting alone on a full sized paper plate. If it were half the price I'd still say stay away.

It's a shame too because the brewery is great. Stop by McDonalds before you come here for better food at a quarter of the price.

Just serve food people can enjoy with their beer without waiting nearly an hour! The chef here should be ashamed and embarrassed to be associated...

TLDR: pricy, tasty and creative, some minor issues with the cooking.

A bit overpriced for “street food”, but nonetheless this remains one of the better restaurants we’ve found in Juneau. We actually came twice - once getting fish and chips and the udon bowl, and next both getting burgers. Our first meal was awesome. Excellent fish, great udon bowl, although the chicken in the bowl was slightly dry, and both meals were $22-26.

The next time we both got burgers and didn’t realize until we sat down that they didn’t ask how we’d like the burgers cooked - a shame because they came back very well done and bone dry. The patty melt onions were, conversely, underdone. But the flavors of the sauce and the bread were awesome.

So, I think there are some kinks to work out with some of the dishes, but overall, I think this place is great and...