Glenn H.'s Profile

For $10 at this writing, this place should be many times better than it is for a lunch buffet.

Good:

Great Mango Soft serve ice cream
Covered free parking nearby
Naan

OK: Tandoor chicken but  it was on the dry side of moist and had not the best flavor.

Bad:

Service: at 1 PM Out of food choices. e.g. Chicken Tikka Masala and the rice, salad

- Oily: the very shiny rice, and the Palak paneer was swimming in it. They tasted OK though.

- VERY SALTY: the Egg and Dal Curries

- Poor speed to replenish the buffet

- Poor maintenance of the cleanliness of the buffet itself.

- VALUE

Keep looking.

Consistently good pho. The small bowl is packed--so unless you are HUGE and starved, the small should do for most of us. (OK I'm a big guy and had always ordered a large bowl before this place--not any more!)

Good meat quality. Individual basil/jalapeno/sprouts plates. Great broth & good service.

Very impressed.

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Great food.  Crowded at lunch. Service is therefore slow. Eat off the boats for speed. Bento Box is reasonable and very plentiful at less than $9. Had pork Katsu & salmon & tuna sashimi as my two choices.

AKA "Alaska Canopy Adventures" or "Rainforest Canopy & Zipline Adventure"

Avoid Ketchikan if you want an Alaskan experience--its mostly geared around selling you STUFF; Glittery STUFF, Fake Alaskan STUFF really made overseas, chachkies, and canned/smoked salmon.

If you like that kind of thing, great, but we really wanted an experience and this MADE THE TRIP!  

Ziplining (You Tube tags: zipline ketchikan) is fast, fun, and safe; I had complete faith in the harness and the great guides. If you do this, you will have a BLAST even if it's raining, which it was for us.

We saw bald eagles and even a black bear from our tree stand perches. And we had plenty of laughs, and felt like heros when we made it back down to the gift shop (of course) for (1) complementary hot chocolate & cookies and (2) a digital picture of us on the zipline for $15 [yeah it's steep, but what are you going to do?]

A must do!

So your in Skaway Alaska and have a hankering for something Alaskan and anything NOT from a cruise ship.

Of COURSE! Let's eat Thai food!

So cool to have freshly done food done right with friendly service and not too much money even up here in these parts.

For around $30, we had a beer, a soda, great tasting pot stickers, and a decent shrimp Pad Puk for our lunch.

So it wasn't the most authentic tasting Thai food. It was freshly done, with good ingredients and enough seasoning to make it tasty. And this is Skagway, not downtown San Fran, eh?

4.5 overall.

7 day Agenda: AK 2008 Seattle to Ketchikan to Juneau to Skagway to Prince Rupert and back to Seattle.

Best advice is to cheap-out on the rooms and splurge on the rather expensive excursions. Without these excursions, unless you LOVE to shop, bid on art and do BINGO[ "Iiiiitttttssss BINGO TIME! Woohoooo!"!] this cruise was only about 3.5.

The excursions alone added about $1,400 to the cost--and these were not all the most expensive ones!

But they added memories that will always be with us.

We:

- Ziplined in Ketchikan (must do),

- Heli-Toured 4 glaciers & even landed on one (drank the fresh cold glacier melt-mmmm fan-tabulous) in Juneau,

- Biked in Skagway (meh overall, mostly downhill through great scenery but not enough stops), and

- Kayaked in Prince Rupert (wasn't bad, could have been better organized). But we had an old-fashioned hot dog roast on the beach with dungeness crab too, and roasted marshmallows. Not bad until the bugs started eating us alive.

Food was everything from meh to superb. Cagneys was great and Versailles was consistently good with a few exceptions.

The best one (5 stars) was the only one we chose with a $15 per person up-charge to eat there: the SOHO Room. The food was exceptionally well prepared, presented, and the service was superb. We even had Baked Alaska (what else?) for dessert.

The views from our stern-facing stateroom balcony, including the Dawes Glacier at the end of the Endicott Arm were truly spectacularly wonderful. And the ride was smooth overall.

Service was good, but these service people work really REALLY hard and see little shore time. So they were very nice & professional but often tired looking.

Entertainment was very good. I highly recommend Jana Seale; a Canadian singer and guitarist, with a truly lovely voice.

I would do Alaska again, but would probably fly here and there to do excursions and avoid the shopping madness.

Agreed Randy T. The noodles are not my favorite here; and noodles & broth make & break a good pho. We switched it up and had an all Seafood Pho and an Egg Noodle Pho. Both broths were good but the egg noodle broth was distinctly a darker yellow.

Good seafood. We liked the fishcake slices and shrimp and squid. The pork and chicken in the egg noodles were a bit dry (which I've always found odd and unwelcome in a soup).

Problem with both bowls was the rice noodles were gummy and the egg noodles too underdone (less than al dente). This detracted from the overall experience.

Decor is almost non-existent. Prices are inexpensive. Service was quick but perfunctory.

I have experienced better pho and though this was not bad, it was not worth a second try. Now if Pla is correct, maybe the vermicelli dishes are the way to go...

I heart pizza.

I think I always have.

From the streets of Napoli in Italy to Chicago's Unos to Amichi's NY Style pizza to Pizza Hut's Pan Pizzas and Pacifica's Manor Room Brazilian-made pizza; I seem to like 'em all.

Any they seem to like-ah me. :)

So when Papa Murphy's take-home pizza was offered to me, I said, "Ayah! paizan, you talkin' to me? Of course! Wassamata you?"; like your typical Chinese-Italian gangsta would say.

So these people are really nice people, apparently very proud of their freshly made pizza creations. They took the orders quickly and before we could walk two blocks to get them, they were stacked and wrapped and we were greeted with smiles and honest pride.

We ordered two large pizzas:

A chicken garlic deLITE® Pizza ultra thin crust pizza with fresh spinach and sun-dried tomato, and

A CHICAGO-STYLE STUFFED PIZZA™ (a stuffed two-crust pizza monster).

- All this fresh yummy goodness for under $19 !!? STFU. No Way! No really. STFU. Way.

When baked properly, the crust of each was crispy and browned in spite of either it's thinness or thickness respectively.

The taste of each was tremendous. freshly popping with tomatoes and generous toppings/fillings. Not overly salty like some Round Table pizzas can be and not soggy and greasy like some colder oven pizzas can turn into with too much cheese and too thin a crust.

OK so the Chicago style was not the crispy biscuit crust and ladles of tomato sauce of Unos, but it was truly excellent and wondrous to behold and snarf down.

The deLITE crust was a thing of delicate beauty seemingly more like an oversized thin salt water cracker than a crust, but held up its crispness like few others I've had.

Come to Papa's!

My shortest review:

G'AWFUL service.

Good food, when it finally gets to you. Very poorly paced.

They just barely made a third star if it wasn't for the food quality and quantity.

Really liked this place.

When you first enter Nola's, you enter through a cramped hall which opens into a New Orleans Style courtyard (see pic). Note that there are two levels; the upper which is really nice but could be hot in the summer. The atmosphere is relaxed and really pleasant with Zydeco music being piped in.

Service was OK; slowed because of the number of people to be served. Not especially warm though.

Food was great. Appys were huge plates of calamari with deep-fried green beans, Crawfish-Andouille Dumplings in a terrific rich cream sauce, and N.O.La Frites (which included regular seasoned fries, sweet potato fries and fried okra.). They were all good and could make meals unto themselves.

Four of the six of us had the étouffée ($19. See pic) which we all agreed was excellent (we were so stuffed at the end that many of us did not finish it all). The others had the shrimp creole ($20. Very good) and the very spicy jambalaya ($19 & maybe a bit too spicy).

Three kinds of excellent Mojitos: Captain Morgan, Cruzan Rasberry and Bacardi Big Apple for about $7 each.

Then the desert was the Beignets Du Monde $7. Essentially a very large portion (like 6 each order) of fried pastry dough about the size and shape of large square & thick potato knishes covered with cinnamon sugar (tasting kinda like a churro) and served with 3 warm sauces Maple Brandy, Chicory Chocolate and a warm Raspberry Sauce. Two plates of these baby's fed a very stuffed table of six with at least 3 beignets left over. Really liked the sauces, which tasted freshly done and not out of some can.

The cost per couple with the appys, one drink, and desert & tip was about $82 so certainly on the moderate side, but for the size and quality that was served, not bad,