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Table 6 Restaurant 3210 Denali St., Suite 8 $5-$16 per plate 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday through Saturday 907-562-6000 http://www.table6.net After close to a year of Lunchbox reviews, Midtown pickings are becoming fewer and farther between -- but every now and then I drive by a place that's hiding in plain sight, and turn in to eat for a long-delayed review. Table 6 is a trendy spot in Midtown, the brownstone strip mall in which it's ensconced lending the restaurant a fairly classy façade.

The Bridge restaurant opened in 2005 with high hopes of helping to revitalize the Ship Creek area and make it a tourist destination. Just a few years later The Bridge closed its doors and has since sat empty. Now a couple of local chefs hope to have better fortunes and are reopening the downtown landmark. Chef Al Levinsohn and his partner Chef Patrick Hoogerhyde were gearing up for their first catering gig, Friday night at the newly reopened and renamed Bridge Seafood. Lauren Hazelton and her new husband were holding their wedding reception at Bridge Seafood.

by Jason Lamb Tuesday, February 23, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- While most restaurant owners in Anchorage do a fine job running their establishments, city reports show a few in town have fallen short when it comes to the health and safety of the food you eat. From filthy food surfaces to rodent droppings all over the kitchen, the horror stories can be pretty disgusting. For a break during lunch you might try the Sushi Ya Japanese restaurant on Dimond. Its easily-accessible location attracts dozens of diners every day. But the city's health inspections database shows the restaurant received several critical violations back in September.

Even after Parkinson’s disease made it impossible for Peggy Brown to wait tables, she still sought out small ways to help at the restaurant she and her husband had run for more than 50 years. Her hands shaking from the disease, she’d help refill water glasses and say hello to customers. Brown died on Sunday after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 87. “This was her life,” said her daughter Patricia Brown Heller, gesturing at the diner, filling with breakfast customers on a Tuesday morning.

The former owner of a popular Anchorage restaurant was sentenced in court Wednesday for drug and money laundering charges. The U.S. Attorney's office said 42-year-old Daryl Hunter will spend five years in prison for using drug money to buy the Wings ‘n Things restaurant. Hunter pleaded guilty to 20 counts of money laundering and one count of maintaining a place for the distribution of controlled substances. The investigation by the Anchorage Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the IRS showed Hunter traveled to Portland, Ore. to purchase heroin and sell it in Anchorage.

Even after Parkinson's disease made it impossible for Peggy Brown to wait tables, she still sought out small ways to help at the restaurant she and her husband had run for more than 50 years. Her hands shaking from the disease, she'd help refill water glasses and say hello to customers. Brown died on Sunday after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. She was 87. "This was her life," said her daughter, Patricia Brown Heller, gesturing at the diner filling with breakfast customers on a Tuesday morning.

George Brown, owner of Lucky Wishbone restaurant in Anchorage, had a milestone birthday on Saturday that was open to the public. Brown turned 90 years old, and spent the day at his restaurant, amongst customers, staff, family and friends. Mayor Dan Sullivan presented Brown with a proclamation, declaring George Brown Day. Brown's daughter Pat Heller says her father did not want a party and only asked to spend the day at the restaurant. But the celebration was anything but quiet as long-time friends and customers flooded in with birthday wishes.

Buffalo Wild Wings, a national chain restaurant, opened its first Anchorage location on Thursday, March 8. The restaurant was insipred by NY-style wings and also serves as a sports bar. It's located at 3400 C Street in the same building that used to house Anchorage Billiards and prior to that Wayne's Original Texas BBQ. On its opening weekend, the restaurant will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., March 8 to March 11. The addition of...

by Channel 2 News staff Saturday, January 23, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A well-known local restaurant has won a prestigious award. For the third consecutive year, the Marx Bros. Café was awarded an AAA Four Diamond rating. The association reviewed and scored more than 28,000 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada on their food, ambience, presentation and service. Out of the thousands inspected, only 750 restaurants were given the award. The café also runs Muse, a new restaurant inside the Anchorage Museum.

by The Associated Press Saturday, May 8, 2010 FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- The Alaska Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Fairbanks man who stabbed and choked a woman at a North Pole restaurant. David Sun Do Hesch is serving a 40-year prison sentence for first-degree assault and kidnapping in an attack on Polly Andrews. The 35-year-old Hesch met Andrews in July 2005. The night they met, they also picked up Hesch's friend, Turhan Ray, and reportedly used cocaine.

Anchorage fire investigators are looking into a Saturday morning fire that scorched a local restaurant. 15 units from the Anchorage Fire Department responded to a fire at Sunrise Grill off of Old Seward at about 5 a.m. No one was hurt and fire marshals say they don't know what caused the fire. Investigators say it took fire crews a couple of hours to put out the blaze and they'll be back on Monday to do more research as to what caused the fire. “The majority of the structure is intact but it might be a total loss for the business,” said Brian Balega, AFD Investigator.

Tarascos Mexican Restaurant $8-$21 per plate 4300 Old Seward Hwy. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday; closed Monday 907-770-2888 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tarascos-Mexican-Restaurant/219328521542624 We don't see too much turnover in the Midtown restaurant scene immediately surrounding our station, but when it happens I'm intensely curious -- and a recent change made me walk away from my newsroom lunch for some stronger fare....

A 22-year-old Kodiak man has been charged with nine felony counts connected to a break-in at a restaurant. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports Casey Brennick was arraigned late last week on charges of burglary, theft, criminal mischief and evidence tampering. Kodiak police say a suspect last week broke into Noodles Restaurant. Owners reported the theft of television sets, golf clubs and two motorcycles from a trailer behind the restaurant. Police acting on a tip served a search warrant at a home and recovered the property.

Three Anchorage KFC restaurants including two in Midtown and one in Muldoon closed late last month, according to a local franchisee of the national fried-chicken chain. An official with owner Wagstaff Atte Alaska Inc. confirmed that the restaurants -- a KFC at 4315 Old Seward Hwy. and a hybrid KFC/Long John Silver's location at 2514 E. Tudor Rd., as well as a KFC at 100 Muldoon Rd. -- were closed on Nov. 19, the Monday before Thanksgiving, affecting about 35 employees. A tall KFC road sign remained standing at the Old Seward Highway location behind a Holiday gas station Wednesday, but small panels with the name had been removed from a sign and a miniature steeple on top of the restaurant.

Gwennie's Old Alaska Restaurant 4333 Spenard Rd. $7-$40 per plate 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday 907-243-2090 http://www.gwenniesrestaurant.com/ I've stopped for a review along Spenard Road's hotel belt before, noting the lack of local options in the area. A nearby landmark doubles as one of the few exceptions amid a sea of chain restaurants and fast-food outlets, however, and I finally returned for a visit. Gwennie's Old Alaska Restaurant sits just north of Spenard's hotel-restaurant core, in a ramshackle three-story building adorned with a totem-pole mural on its south side; it's a little garish, but gives the place personality and makes it nearly impossible to miss from the road.

A fire at an Anchorage sushi restaurant closed the business for the next few months. The Anchorage Fire Department received a call that smoke was coming from the rear of Sushi Garden on Huffman Road at about 2 a.m on Sunday. When crews arrived, there was heavy smoke inside the building and a fire in the kitchen. The fire was contained in the kitchen, but the building received heavy smoke damage. Restaurant owner Daniel Blair said the building will take four to six months to rebuild.

The Anchorage Police Department and the Alcoholic Beverage Control announced on Monday that a strip club and two restaurants were temporarily shut down for suspected illegal operations after a four-month investigation. APD alleged that the Showboat strip club, Three Amigo's restaurant, and Tropical Latin Food restaurant were serving alcohol illegally after hours or providing entertainment after hours along with drug activity. “These places were big party places and inter-agency cooperation is great here in Alaska,” Lt. Dave Parker, APD spokesperson, said.