Midtown
Midtown is Anchorage's commercial core, which is a polite way of saying strip malls, chain restaurants, and the office parks where actual Alaskans go to work. The Dimond and Northern Lights corridors carry the traffic; the C Street offices carry the payroll. Dating here is convenient rather than romantic. You meet at Moose's Tooth or a Midtown brewery, you split a pizza, you go home. The upside is that everyone lives within fifteen minutes of everyone else. The downside is that there is no there there. Rents are middling, demographics skew working professional, and nobody pretends Midtown has a soul. It has parking.
Midtown by the numbers
Midtown runs male-heavy, about 64% men to 36% women.
Median individual income in Midtown is about $42,900.
Alaska registers voters by party, and Anchorage is unusual - about 64% register Undeclared or Nonpartisan, well ahead of Republicans (21%) and Democrats (14%).
The median renter in Midtown pays about $1,190 a month.
About 3,700 Midtown residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
- MidtownDining
Moose's Tooth Pub & Pizzeria
- MidtownDrinks
Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse
- MidtownDining
Bear Paw Bar & Grill
- MidtownDining
Kinley's Restaurant & Bar
- MidtownDining
Jens' Restaurant
- MidtownDining
Altura Bistro
- MidtownActivity
Alaska Rock Gym
LGBTQ+ friendlyWheelchair access - MidtownCafés
The Kobuk
- MidtownCafés
SteamDot Coffee Benson Bar
- MidtownDrinks
Pioneer Bar
- MidtownDrinks
Carousel Lounge
- MidtownDrinks
Reilly's
- MidtownDining
The Rickshaw | AK
- MidtownCafés
Baskin-Robbins
Wheelchair access - MidtownCafés
Little Miller's Benson
Good for groups - MidtownActivity
Alaska Jewish Museum
Wheelchair access