From a food truck to Anchorage's best burger.
We started with one classic burger and a pile of garlic fries. Anchorage voted, and the rest is history.
The Food Truck burger is how we got our start — a classic 1/3 lb juicy patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and our own Awesome Sauce on a fresh-baked Europa Bakery bun, with a generous portion of our famous garlic fries on the side.
Our customers voted us best burger, and we've spent every year since living up to it — two Anchorage restaurants, a food truck, a catering arm, and two event spaces, all under Main Event Svc's LLC. Where your taste buds take center stage.
We use only the freshest, highest-quality ingredients, made from scratch and beautiful too. Come hungry. Leave happy.
Watch our story
Bill & Kimberly Fischer sat down with Alaska Means Business to tell the whole thing — the driveway-built food truck, the State Fair, and the COVID winter that, as they put it, made them.
“We want you to put it in your mouth and go, ‘Wow, I'm really glad I ate that.’”
— Bill Fischer, co-founder
How we got here
- 2002
A wedding with no caterer
Bill and Kimberly get married — and their caterer never shows. The wedding party cooks the reception themselves. Kimberly starts catering and baking wedding cakes to help, and a calling is born.
- 2016
“Why aren't we getting paid for this?”
Kimberly caters a 350-person wedding for almost nothing. Bill asks the question that changes everything. Debt-free off the Dave Ramsey plan, they decide their next move is food.
- That summer
Built in the driveway
Rather than sign a lease they couldn't afford, Bill guts a reconstructed motorhome and builds a food truck by hand — every day after work, all summer. (Bayshore banned food trucks in its bylaws because of it.) They open that September.
- State Fair
Twelve days that proved it
After years of applying, they finally get into the Alaska State Fair — and make more in twelve days than the truck did all year. They'd outgrown the truck. It was time for a real kitchen.
- Feb 3, 2020
The doors open
They finish out a full kitchen with dining up front and open as a restaurant at 76th & Old Seward — just hoping their food-truck regulars would come eat through the winter. They did.
- March 2020
“COVID made us.”
Weeks after opening, the world shut down. They pivoted to to-go, ran street-side barbecue, and partnered with local breweries on Friday fish fries. Neighbors handed them $100 bills just to keep them alive. “Alaskans are just different people.”
- Today
Two restaurants, one family
Albert came on as a COVID-era line cook and worked his way up — he now owns and runs the Mountain View Main Event. Two restaurants, a catering arm, two event spaces, and as many as 65 people, all moving the same direction.
The good stuff
Garlic fries first
Fresh chopped garlic, cheeses, and house seasoning. They put us on the map and they come with every burger and sandwich.
Scratch & local
Europa Bakery buns, Boar's Head pastrami, fireweed tea from Homer, Luci Mae's pies, reindeer sausage — real Alaska ingredients.
Awesome Sauce
Our house sauce goes on nearly everything. People buy it by the bottle. Now you can have your Awesome anytime.
Have fun with it
Deep-fried Tap Out burgers, wild Red Bull italian sodas, and a motto we stand by: Garlic Breath is Sexy.