New Year, New List: Zusman’s Best Restaurants in Portland – and the Overrated Ones As Jerome J. Garcia and Robert C. Hunter once wrote, “The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet ‘neath the ground.” Portland’s darkest season made me want to flee or sleep, in turns. But at last Springy things are – Read more…
Lardo Restaurant
Top 10 Portland Restaurants – September 2016
My Top 10 Portland Restaurants along with my next 15 for September 2016 This is the first update to my Top 10 Portland restaurants list since it was originally published in March. It’s the only local list that’s immune from p.r. and advertising pressures and is actually written by someone who’s lived in Portland forever, has been eating out – Read more…
News Roundup: Ava Genes, Nodoguro, Lardo, Clay’s and More
Lardo’s North Williams restaurant has closed. The restaurant which opened in early 2014 closed. The ChefStable restaurant group location had never taken off as much as the Hawthorne and SW Washington street locations. The Lardo partnership is currently embroiled in a $1.6 million lawsuit between investors. Nodoguro Reopens Japanese restaurant Nodoguro has opened a – Read more…
Lardo Sandwiches – Westside
Lardo Sandwiches – Eastside
Lardo is a sandwich shop that worships at the altar of bovine and swine. Pushing a menu that features pork drenched double burgers, a giant meatball Banh Mi, and hand-cut french fries smothered in pork, Lardo also has beer. Lots of beer, and lots of picnic tables out front. Some shade can be found under – Read more…
Zusman’s Top 10 Portland Restaurants
Michael Zusman goes to restaurants far more than I am able to, so I asked if he would be interested in an ongoing Top Ten Portland Restaurants list for the home page of the website. Fortunately he was happy to help, sending me 25. FD] Originally, my Top 10 Portland restaurants list was something I – Read more…
Reader Survey 2015: Best Restaurant for Lunch in Portland
I asked, “What is the best restaurant for lunch in Portland”, deliberately excluding food carts – nothing against them, this just isn’t a food cart site. 70 different restaurants received votes. Two ties made up the bottom group, so I extended the list a few extra places. 1,323 votes: 1. Lardo – 12.1% of the vote. $ – Read more…
Reader Survey 2015: Best Hamburger in Portland
Where can you get the best hamburger in Portland Oregon? This category received 1,378 votes. I’m always surprised when we have ties with this many votes cast, and it happened three times in this category. This is always a top vote-getter in our yearly poll, with such a wide variety of responses, even the winners have a fairly low – Read more…