Forte

Located within the Aleskya Hotel, Forte is the nicest dining option within the property. The service yesterday during lunch and today for breakfast was excellent, the restaurant decor and views of the mountain are beautiful, and most importantly, we had one of the best burgers ever during our visit. We couldn't recommend a meal at Forte highly enough. The breakfast buffet was solid as well.

We really enjoyed our meals. Our waitress did a great job explaining the menu and add on options. My husband had the pistachio pesto gnocchi and added chicken as his protein (if you do not add a protein this will be a smaller portion meal). I enjoyed the king crab tagliolini, opted to have the peppers served on the side and not mixed in. Both dishes were amazing. These are not over size American portions. It’s a restaurant that intends on its guests to add on an appetizer or dessert. The tiramisu is Devine. We would absolutely eat here next time we stay at Alyeska. Enjoy!

Well, the night started off great with our friendly server, the cocktails, and the focaccia bread. The bread comes with a side of ricotta cheese, 4 large slices of focaccia, and a small side of olives for $13 - this was very reasonable for the large portion given. We then ordered the mushroom pizza and the stuffed pasta. The mushroom pizza was what we expected, filling enough for one hungry person. The stuffed pasta is not worth your money. My server warned me that it wasn’t filling, but I guess my expectations were still higher. The stuffed pasta is $32 and comes with 6-7 pieces of normal sized ravioli, covered in oil and a sweet sauce. I left hungry. I would understand the price and portion if the sauce was savory & exciting, but it wasn’t. Lastly, the flavor of the tiramisu was what I’d expect but unfortunately, it had so much cocoa powder on top what we were coughing with every bite that we took. This would be great with some less cocoa. Overall, I would come back for the focaccia and cocktails.

Well, I love the atmosphere, decorations, hospitality of the place, plants, cleanliness, and the location. Music was also soft and comfortable However, the food was of quite a bad quality. Halibut was too dry, chicken was too oily and dry. And the overall taste was so so.

AVOID AVOID AVOID What is the manager thinking? (Waitress was very nice though) Bruschetta was half mushrooms on bread. Bruschetta is not broken - don’t change it! Pizza was bland and basically 50% crust. Tiny center area of ingredients. Look at pic. Pasta entree was about 4 bites of pasta, for a full price entree $$$. Look at pic. For being the nice restaurant at alyeska resort and paying resort prices, you sure don’t get squat. Will never go back. Hotel manager needs to rethink how things are done here. Beautiful spot, nice setting but food is bad, tiny portions, and big prices. Something’s gotta change.

Service is wonderful. Food is terrible. Overpriced and lacks taste. $14 for a lemon fennel salad tasted old and had absolutely zero lemon taste. There were maybe 4 pieces of shaved fennel in it? $28 king crab pasta had barely any crab in it. The only flavor to that was a spicy chili oil or something. Really really disappointing.

Sharing plates were incredibly flavorful. Pasta was obviously fresh and that alone made the dish. But the added ingredients added a whole additional layer of flavors. Very impressed! Portions are very reasonable, not too big but plenty.

We stayed in the hotel a couple of times during winter season. We visited this restaurant multiple times, for breakfast, lunch, dinner and room delivery. Mixed feedback for this restaurant. Overall, the food is good quality and sourced from local places. I liked rigatoni pasta and halibut salad the best. Deserts are all too sweet. Id not recommend avocado toast as it’s just a piece of toast with a really really thin layer of avocado - and $22 for it! It was understaffed and you can see the waiter was stressed out trying to serve all tables even though only a few of them were taken. One of the days we called for room delivery and got sent to voicemail for 20 mins. Front desk told us they were just busy and we should keep trying. When we didn’t get a response so we arrived in the restaurant and it turned out the manager and room service stuff weren’t there (9am) while the restaurant is open from 7am. I wish the front desk was informed and let us know when we inquired the details, so we wouldn’t waste time. The issue was fixed easily as we went to the other places in the area serving breakfast. This year, the room service was fast.