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. $ The menu features sandwiches such as a Pork … [Read more...] about Reader Survey 2015: Best Restaurant for Lunch in Portland
Olympia Provisions Restaurant
Trigger, Pasta Allegro Close; Little T Bakery Opening New Store
Portland Monthly Magazine reports that Trigger, the Tex-Mex restaurant from Tommy Habetz and company will close, to reopen as another Bunk. This isn't exactly a surprise: the location under the Wonder Ballroom was a bit strange and frequently competed with the ballroom and Toro Bravo for neighborhood parking spaces. That, coupled with a kitchen that never seemed to get its feet … [Read more...] about Trigger, Pasta Allegro Close; Little T Bakery Opening New Store
Amuse Bouche 1.15.13
Time to catch up on stories that have caught my eye. First, selections from a few press releases:Mi Mero Mole has reopened. As you may or may not know, their refrigerator died, and a weekend's worth of food went with them. Owner Nick Zukin has some choice words for Saturn, the refrigerator company; unusual because he never says what he thinks. Yes, that was a joke. Losing … [Read more...] about Amuse Bouche 1.15.13
Reader Survey 2012: Best Restaurant in Portland #21 Olympic Provisions
21. Olympic Provisions - As unpretentious as the restaurant itself, the menu is quite small: a few simple starters such as raw oysters, olives and fried filberts, a couple of handsome salads, and above all an enormous bowl of soup. The pork and chickpea version is almost a light meal, and the potato-sorrel soup in a black pepper cream is hearty and yet, even in … [Read more...] about Reader Survey 2012: Best Restaurant in Portland #21 Olympic Provisions
A Huge Roundup of News You May Have Missed…
News! Fish Sauce Restaurant Opening, Blue Star Donuts to Open, Lucky Peach on Fermented Foods Fish Sauce, which I mentioned back in May, has finally opened. I don’t have any information about a new restaurant going into the old Saint Cupcake place on er… NW 17th(?). It is going to be called Fish Sauce, though the sign also says nước mắm, which is the Vietnamese version of the … [Read more...] about A Huge Roundup of News You May Have Missed…