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PDX Quick Bites: Garden State; Ocean City Seafood
GARDEN STATE CARTThis food cart insanity we live in here in Portland has got to stop. People doing ridiculously good things with chicken and rice like at Nong's Khao Man Gai. Crazy good red curry at Bruce Lee Kitchen. Perfect etouffée at the Po' Hou...
PDX Quick Bites: Yakuza Lounge
I have to warn you, this is a spoiler alert: I really, really liked Yakuza over on NE 30th & Killingsworth here in PDX. Part of owner Micah Camden's mini-empire on K-worth, this is the place that started the izakaya, or Japanese eating/drinking b...
PDX Quick Bites: Ping; Koi Fusion; + coffee, carts, bars, and Taboada's, oh my!!
Some quick thoughts/observations from eating around town.....After a recent lunch at Ping with my friend's Denise and her man K I asked on a twitter post if anyone else was as underwhelmed with Andy Ricker's Ping as I am? This place opened with great...
PDX Quick Bites: Beaker & Flask
When is a bar not a bar? That thought wandered across my mind as w and I were sitting in Beaker & Flask a couple of nights ago in the midst of what was turning into one of the most satisfying dinners we'd had in a long time. The reason for that m...
Quick Bites PDX: Tanuki's edge!
"No Sushi""No Kids"How can you not love a Japanese restaurant that is balls enough to put that on their sign out in front of their place in this annoyingly PC age of businesses/people not wanting to offend ANYBODY?? That was the first hint of edge at...
Quick Bites PDX: Tabla elevates its game!
The past three times I've walked out of Tabla on NE 28th Avenue here in Portland, I am always left wondering "How in the hell do they do it?" Not how do they make the food. That I get. The question was raised again last Saturday night by the absolute...
Highs, lows, and Noble Rot
There's a difference between a full "review" of a restaurant and a lot of what I report. Most of my commentary of my all too frequent eating adventures are more in the "slice of life" category. Kind of a review of one evening. I have to say in my exp...
Quick Bites PDX: Caffé Mingo; Poompui; del INTI
CAFFE MINGOYou know how certain places just have that comfortable feel for you? You know it's really right when even if you haven't been there for a year or more, the moment you walk in the door, you know nothing has changed. Caffé Mingo on NW 21st ...
Quick Bites PDX: Laurelhurst Market
A good sign a restaurant knows its meat: You walk in the front entrance and are immediately greeted by their cooler which is filled with their housemade charcuterie, patés, and trays filled with their more European cuts of beef. I don't remember The...
Quick Bites PDX: Yummy Yummy Restauarnt, pt. 1- is this what I've been searching for?
Ever since we got back from Hong Kong & Shanghai last fall, we've been lamenting the fact that in Portland it is virtually impossible to get those same satisfying flavors we experienced there. There's no shortage of Chinese restos here, and in my...
Quick Bites PDX: Tabla Bistro
An online dictionary defines value as "the worth of something compared to the price paid or asked for it?". Taking that definition and applying it to our dinner at Tabla last Saturday, then the value offered by their three course prix fixe menu for $...
Quick Bites PDX: if you could see me now
Then these are a few of the things you might catch me stuffing my pie-hole with at various spots around Portland, with varying degrees of satisfaction....Pork Belly Cubano at Bunk Sandwich. After reading the name of this sandwich do I even need to te...
SIMPATICA: The Movie
You know how it feels when you've heard great things about a movie, especially one that seems perfect for your particular tastes? How excited you are to see it. So you finally decide to go, you feel lucky to be in the packed theater, and you settle i...
Quick Bites PDX: noodles at Jade Teahouse and other news.
Food for hard times? How's that bowl of goodness from Portland's Jade Teahouse look? I know, incredible! If you're trying to stretch your dining out dollars and not eating bowl after bowl of noodles from your local Asian joint, you are missing out. T...
Yin and yang
The differences between mediocrity and greatness were never more evident than they were to us last weekend. We made plans to meet with our friends K&D for some happy hour noshing, and w had read a couple of interesting things about the preciously...
Quick Bites PDX: Castagna
Heeding the call of our president that we all must do what we can in this moment of national crises, I have decided the best way I can help the economy...and by extension the United States of America...is to take every opportunity to stimulate the lo...
Quick Bites PDX: Ping
It was something new and much anticipated, and I so much wanted to love it. Like when w got her new Mini Cooper, I was almost as excited as she was. And we both LOVED it. Totally exceeded expectations. That was the hope I had when we met with friends...
Quick Bites PDX: 5 Guys Burgers and Fries; Spella Caffé; EVOE
I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire. I wanted to earlier, but never made it. Now that I've seen the Academy Award ass-kicking they gave the American movie industry, I'm still a little leery. It's almost a matter of no way can they meet my expectations...
America deceived? The SHOCKING truth!!
Fantasy:Reality:And I'm sure I'm not the only American who is crushed by disappointment when we open our bag of heart disease from the local fast food chain and are shocked...SHOCKED...to find out the reality is somewhat different than the advertisin...
Quick Bites PDX: Apps at Castagna Café
I've been meaning to get this up since last Sunday, but, um...forgot. So hopefully when you go by Castagna Café they'll still be on the menu. But if not, you know whatever is there will more than satisfy you, so no huge loss. But just in case, these...
Quick Bites PDX: Toro Bravo
Fried anchovies with fennel and lemon....Brandy soaked dates stuffed with foie gras....Lamb Rillettes....Jamon wrapped chicken....Oxtail croquettes. Such are the restaurant nightmares of any number of pallid skinned vegans. Conversely, these are the ...
Quick Bites PDX: Ping me; great gyros; damnable dim sum
In a blog post at our local daily fishwrap website, writer Karen Brooks has an update on the much awaited Andy "Pok-Pok" Ricker project Ping, opening in February in our, um, "Chinatown" area. if ever you needed proof of past lives and reincarnation,...
