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Time For Another Round: Your Favorite Mid-Priced Restaurants

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Time for you to weigh in. What are your favorite mid-priced restaurants?

A few months ago, everyone nominated their top five higher priced restaurant for our Recommended List. Now it’s time to add your mid-priced choices. Don’t worry too much about price ranges, I will get that straightened out later.

So… nominations?

PS. Yes, the people in that thumbnail are all eating while sitting on toilets. The drinking fountains are urinals. The bowls bedpans. You get the drill. What will these crazy Japanese think of next?! I, for one, and not in a hurry to eat there.

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  5. muncielovesfood says

    We just had food from the new menu at 50 Plates and it was great. The salisbury steak with mushrooms and bread pudding was one of the best dishes I’ve had at a mid-prided restaurant.
    I also second Country Cat.
    Toro Bravo is wonderful and Pok Pok must be on your list too. I would also include Navarre, which is really a bargain for what they serve.

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  8. jimster says

    Alba. Best pasta in Portland. All $11-$16.

    Does it go without saying that Pok Pok would be on the top of this list?

    Beaker and Flask.

    3 Doors Down.

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  10. CO says

    this is the category that as far as Portland goes, you could name 100 places! PDX shines in this category and trying to Narrow it down to a handful seems like doing a disservice to some pretty exemplary restaurants. That being said, my top 5:

    Beaker & Flask
    Tanuki
    Laurelhurst Market
    Apizza Scholls
    Yuzu

    Ya know, looking at those 5, I would be pretty happy to end up on a desert island if those places where on there!

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  20. Jill-O says

    Toro Bravo
    Laurelhurst Market
    Tabla
    Firehouse
    Clyde Common
    Nostrana
    Kurata

    …and I agree with Alba: if you do appetizers + pasta as main dish, it becomes a fabulous mid-priced meal.

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  24. ATrain says

    Agree with a lot of the above, but my top at the moment would have to be Beaker & Flask, Tabla, Toro Bravo and Pok Pok.

    I’d add Pho’ An on Sandy (especially at this time of year, from October – April), but they’re probably in the price range below this one.

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  25. johnny says

    Gilt club is the most overlooked restaurant in Portland I’ve eaten here four times since the new chef has taken over I had a blood sausage pizza that was incredible they should market that sausage also there Kobe beef brisket is incredible

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    • sfsr3 says

      I have to agree….why is that? Gilt Club is always solid in every way. The service is always friendly, the food is always good, the ambience is awesome, I’ve never had a bad experience there. The place is always on my occasion list, especially when entertaining out of town guests. Good call!

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  32. mzwong says

    Nice to see Yoko’s getting some love! I also say Yoko’s, as well as Biwa and Ken’s Artisan. This list is making me realize how long it’s been since I’ve been to most of these places. I pretty much can only eat out at a good happy hour these days. Stupid economy!

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  34. zumpie says

    Castagna Cafe, without question. Pastrami as good as my Jewish hubby’s grandma’s deli in Brooklyn, coq au vin as good as my mom had in Paris (she lived there for 2 years).

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  48. nate says

    I must second Piazza Italia. Can’t believe I forgot it the first time. Probably my favorite Italian food in town at any price. Definitely my favorite pasta joint.

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    • Live To Eat says

      That’s it! Piazza Italia is the name of that little Italian Place over by 24 Hour Fitness in the Pearl. I was always seeing guests overflowing onto the sidewalk during the summer and decided to give it a try one day. The pasta was the best I have had in this fair city. Outstanding!

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  50. New Haven Pizza says

    I’d put Toro Bravo (first place I take visitors and they always rave), Nostrana, Screen Door, 50 Plates (my favorite Happy Hour) Ken’s Pizza, Apizza Scholls, Country Cat, Lincoln and Evoe right up there on any list, but a few that haven’t been mentioned that have warranted return trips:

    Taste of Mexico
    Sal’s Famous Italian
    Veritable Quandary
    EaT Oyster Bar
    Acadia
    Le Bouchon
    Hiro Sushi

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  57. GoodStuffNW says

    Gosh, so many! A quick top-of-mind list:

    Ned Ludd
    Bar at Paley’s Place
    Ciao Vito
    Castagna Cafe
    Ocean City
    Evoe
    3 Doors Down
    Country Cat

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  60. johnny says

    Yeah Bar Mingo is definitely worthy of being considered not my number #1 choice but would be happy if it won the honor a very worthy contender.

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  61. Live To Eat says

    I don’t know if Au Winebar would be considered mid priced, but if you don’t do too many small plates it could be. The food is 4 Star – seriously. A lot of chefs think unusual is 4 Star, so they put together some odd combination that doesn’t really work. Alu reminded me of the food that I got to taste all the time in a 4 Star restaurant that I worked in.

    I’ve also had excellent food at Trebol. Mid-priced? Not sure. Both Trebol, and Alu are on restaurant.com Little secret shhh… so is Le Pigeon, but you have to get your coupon the first of the month before they are all gone. Side note – never pay full price for a restaurant.com coupon. get the code anytime at naughtycodes.com (don’t worry it’s not really naughty – just coupons and such)

    Ken’s Artisan Pizza has the best Margarita Pizza in my humble opinion.

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  63. amy leclerc says

    Spints Ale House
    VQ
    Abby’s Table for Wednesday Night Family Style Dinners $18 for a 4 course meal BYO wine and beer
    Metro Vino for the best happy hour food and wine/cocktail selection in town
    Bar Avignon

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