Comfort Food for Portland, Scandinavian Style (Minor updates, 4.15)On SE Clinton Street there is a restaurant that translates Scandinavian cuisine perfectly for Pacific NW palates. It emphasizes simple cooking, using fresh, seasonal, and local ingredients. Judging from Broder's increasing popularity, they have nailed it.Broder means brother in Swedish and is a play on … [Read more...] about Review: Broder Scandinavian
Breakfast
Review: Blossoming Lotus
Note: The Pearl District location has closed.To list the Blossoming Lotus as a breakfast place seems to demean it. Even calling it a place that serves breakfast doesn’t remotely do it justice. How about this? On its Web site, the Lotus calls itself “a vortex of positive and loving vibrations for all to experience.” Seriously.Portland’s Blossoming Lotus (there’s one on … [Read more...] about Review: Blossoming Lotus
Review: Bijou Cafe
This restaurant closed in 2020.New/Classy/Veggie You can be healthy/progressive and be a "real" restaurant!The best way to sum up the Bijou Cafe's standing in Portland's breakfast scene is this: Out of 36 restaurants listed in Frommer's Portland guide, only three serve breakfast: the Heathman, Peanut Butter & Ellies (which made it as a kiddie/novelty place), and … [Read more...] about Review: Bijou Cafe
Review: The Tin Shed Garden Café
Mushroom-rosemary gravy. Somehow that wraps up the Tin Shed perfectly – that, plus the fact that when the weather’s nice there are so many people waiting outside, drinking self-serve coffee, that they put up benches out front and people share newspapers with each other.In fact, traveling east from MLK Boulevard, the first indication you have arrived on the Alberta Scene is … [Read more...] about Review: The Tin Shed Garden Café
Review: Cricket Cafe
I used to have this friend Bob, from back east. St. Louis, specifically, but in Oregon that's "back east." Bob was a Deadhead and a pot head, not generally a guy anyone called "uptight," but Bob used to go berserk at the slow pace of the service industry in Oregon. We once got tossed out of the Montage because he couldn't get anybody's attention and finally yelled, "Hey (harsh … [Read more...] about Review: Cricket Cafe