Breaker's Bar

Alaska


Dive in with the beards and the baseball caps and listen to Nomers discuss gun preferences and tussles with local grizzly bears. The decor’s retro without even realizing it and the floor smells like 1973. Pool shooters play ‘winner stays on’ out back.


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