"We were camping in Denali Village for a couple of nights, and had been to my personal best restaurant there the night before, so i searched Yelp for something suitable for the 2nd night dining. 49th State Brewing got 4.3 stars so i thought it was acceptable. Anyway, the weather was pathetic and raining heavily, so no one was dining outside this (Friday) evening. That means of course there's a huge crowd in the dining room, and we were told there was a 45 minute wait for a table. I asked if bar seating was available, and it was, so we sat there. Th dining room itself is fairly nice, but of course being at the bar means you don't see too much of it, and all i could see were taps and bottles and a wall lined with birch trees. Ok then. I must say that the bar seating is cramped, and my elbows were hitting the person next to me a lot. I ordered a chicken bowl of some kind, and husband got a half rack of ribs. I got Strawberry Thyme lemonade, he got an IPA of some kind, i don't know, i don't drink alcohol. Food came out in due course, it was ok, chicken was tender, and whatever else was in the bowl was ok too. Nothing special, not bad, but not memorable either. He said his ribs were ok, but i saw the meat was falling off the bone, and good and juicy, which is my kind of rib. Service was prompt, and i got to see a lot of alcohol based action cocktails being mixed, flights being prepared, too foamy pours being discarded quite busy behind the bar. I think had i been able to sit at a table and have some room, and not feel cramped, I'd have given 4 stars instead of 3. Additionally, this is one of the 3 places i was at, during our stay (Moose AKa's, Denali Park Cafe, being the other 2) where i may have caught Covid which descended upon me the day i got home. This however, was by far the closest proximity I'd been to other people. I was informed by the doc there's a new variant going around that's highly contagious. I do think there needs to be more space between the bar stools for this reason."
