Food and Nightlife
For eating there are several good snack places on Front Street - probably the most popular is River West Food & Health (tel 993-6339), a healthfood store with cafe. The excellent Klondike Kate's (May-Sept daily 7am-11pm; tel 993-6527), at 3rd and King, is the friendliest and most laid-back place in town for staples like breakfasts and straightforward dinners (and has an outdoor patio). Otherwise, most dining goes on in the restaurants attached to the town's bigger hotels: three of the best are the Jack London Grill in the Downtown Hotel at 2nd and Queen; the Bonanza Dining Room in the Eldorado at 3rd and Princess; and TJ's in the Triple J Hotel at 5th and Queen. Madame Zoom's , at 2nd and King, has good ice cream and frozen yogurts, and for picnic goodies and self-catering supplies, there's the Dawson General Store on Front Street at the corner of Queen (tel 993-5475) as well as the Farmer's Market on 2nd near Princess. Nightlife revolves around drinking in the main hotel bars, or an hour or so at Diamond Tooth Gertie's at 4th and Queen, Canada's only legal gambling hall . You can also catch the almost equally touristy period-costume melodramas and vaudeville acts held at the Palace Grand Theatre (June-Sept nightly at 8pm; $16-18). If you want a taste of a real northern bar , try the Westminster on 2nd Avenue: it's full of grizzled characters and most certainly not the place for a quiet drink or the faint-hearted: there's live music most nights. Other hotel bars provide more sedate alternatives.
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