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    The Oregonian Lists Their “Top 3 Restaurants”

    By PDX Food Dude Last Update January 18, 2018 21 Comments

    [Note that this is, of course, our 2011 April Fools post.]

    The Oregonian has started a new quarterly feature today, which will list the top three restaurants in Portland. Their decision is based on “how many readers click on various stories on their website, which will truly reflect the popularity of those restaurants”. In other words, if they write an article on Genoa, and lots of people go to Oregon Live and read it, Genoa quickly becomes one of the “top three”.

    The best restaurant choices this quarter? Brace yourself:

    • Tad’s Chicken and Dumplings in Troutdale
    • Hot Lips Pizza
    • McMenamins – (only the Edgefield location)

    You can read an article all about it here.

     

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    Comments

    1. Eva says

      April 1, 2011 at 11:46 am

      I knew you would come through! :-)

      Reply
    2. garden girl says

      April 1, 2011 at 11:52 am

      Very funny!

      Reply
    3. Homer's Son says

      April 1, 2011 at 12:53 pm

      I have strong ties to the Oregonian. (I read it at lunch every day) … and I’m telling!

      Reply
    4. No-doz says

      April 1, 2011 at 1:15 pm

      No, the O’s top 3 [for real, actually]:
      1- Taco Time
      2- Old Spaghetti factory
      3- Shari’s

      Reply
    5. Alastair says

      April 1, 2011 at 1:49 pm

      You’re quite right about the “decline and fall of the print media.” What does the future hold for professional print journalists I wonder? Thanks to the Internet, everybody is a writer/restaurant critic today. I’m thankful that I’m out of the restaurant business; it was tough enough having to read the pompous rantings of some half-baked “restaurant critic,” without having every nut job with computer access, spouting off about their dining experience. I used to serve a pheasant and hare terrine, with truffles and quail eggs, in one of my establishments; our local critic wrote; “It wasn’t bad for a chicken and ham pate!” Now you say we’re reduced to critique by click. Yikes! Love your blog.

      Reply
      • pdxyogi says

        April 1, 2011 at 5:31 pm

        Alastair: it an April Fool’s Joke!

        Reply
        • Alastair says

          April 1, 2011 at 6:18 pm

          Very amusing. Thanks. The way the world is shaping up these days who would know.

        • Food Dude says

          April 1, 2011 at 7:24 pm

          The best practical jokes are the ones that you read and wonder for a moment if they are true or not. For what it’s worth, I agree with what you said.

        • Pradeep Chandrana says

          April 4, 2011 at 5:30 pm

          Sometimes even if the critic writes about a Restaurant in December, it still sounds like an all fools day joke. I totally agree with Alastair.

    6. Suze says

      April 1, 2011 at 2:01 pm

      LOL lots!!!

      Reply
    7. Good Food For Me says

      April 1, 2011 at 2:16 pm

      It actually sounds like this is something they would do – really!

      Reply
    8. Timothy Lehman says

      April 1, 2011 at 2:43 pm

      I don’t get it. So if the “O” writes a negative article about restaurant X and everyone clicks onto the article to read about the train wreck, then restaurant X suddenly becomes the most popular in town?

      Reply
      • stbernard says

        April 1, 2011 at 4:19 pm

        if a chicken and a half layed an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a centiepde with a wooden leg to knock all the seeds out of a dill pickle

        Reply
      • pdxyogi says

        April 2, 2011 at 5:38 am

        It’s called April Fools.

        Reply
    9. Sean says

      April 1, 2011 at 4:49 pm

      Beautiful, FD! I actually bought it at first.

      Reply
    10. Lance Hill says

      April 1, 2011 at 5:41 pm

      April “Fools”.

      Reply
    11. Michael says

      April 2, 2011 at 5:17 am

      I can’t get the hook, line, and sinker out of my mouth.

      Reply
    12. swonder says

      April 2, 2011 at 7:55 am

      Way to go FD. The sad part is that it was not beyond consideration.

      Reply
    13. Livetoeat says

      April 2, 2011 at 10:38 am

      I shared this story with a couple of friends. I said, ” It could be food dudes April Fools joke; but I’m not sure. couldn’t the Oregonian sue him for this or something?”
      The sad thing is, it had such a ring of truth to it that I thought it just might be true! Yikes!

      Reply
      • pdxyogi says

        April 2, 2011 at 1:03 pm

        Anyone may sue anyone for anything at anytime.
        Could they prevail? Of course not. Satire of a public figure (the O) is a protected exercise of the right to free speech.

        And that’s why it’s so funny: because it is so close to the reality!

        Reply
    14. chava boyett says

      April 10, 2011 at 12:33 pm

      they forgot to list Popeye’s

      Reply

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