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Entries Tagged as 'Friendly Waitstaff'

Review: Rose’s (Lloyd location)

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Rose’s Restaurant and Bakery
(Lloyd Center location)
1200 NE Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97232
503-954-2758
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On a recent rainy, dreary Portland day, my lunch partner and I were looking for some hearty comfort food to get us through the bleakness that is fall in the Pacific Northwest. We took off toward Lloyd Center hoping to find something new and, [...]

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Tags: $$ · $$$ · Art · Bagels · Bakery · Bring the Kids · Burgers · Deli · Diner Grub · Friendly Waitstaff · Lotsa Meat! · Lunch and Shopping · Multiple Locations · NE · Pickles · Salads · Stumptown Lunch Favorite · Take Mom and Dad · Take the Out-of-Towners · Unique to Portland · Worth a Walk in the Rain

Review: Billy Heartbeats

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Billy Heartbeats
(Lloyd Center Mall)
2039 Lloyd Center
Portland, OR 97204
503-288-6010
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The conversation usually starts like this: “I want to get a malt,” he says.
Lunch Lady: Rolling my eyes because I know where this is going.
Him: “Let’s go to that diner place at Lloyd Center.”
LL: “You always say you want to go there to get a malt [...]

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Tags: $$ · Bring the Kids · Burgers · Diner Grub · Friendly Waitstaff · Great Fries · Lunch and Shopping · Lunch and a Movie · NE · Oh So Retro · People-Watching · Take MAX

Review: Five Guys Burgers and Fries

November 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Five Guys Burger and Fries
2606 SW Cedar Hills Boulevard
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-430-8748
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Having lived in Washington, DC, for several years, I was already familiar with Five Guys and their delicious burgers and yummy fries. But when a friend mentioned the opening of Five Guys in Beaverton, I thought I heard her wrong. A Five Guys [...]

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Tags: $ · $$ · Beaverton · Bring the Kids · Burgers · Family Fun · Finger Food · Friendly Waitstaff · Grand Opening · Great Fries · Hangover Cure · Hot Dogs · I Have a Hangover · Lotsa Cheese! · Lotsa Meat! · Pickles · Stumptown Lunch Favorite

HH Review: Dragonfish Asian Café

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Dragonfish Asian Café
909 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205
503-243-5991
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It’s rare that I go to sushi places where you order off the menu, as I’m a diehard sushi train fan. But the Sushi Hour at the upscale Dragonfish Asian Café is absolutely worth a visit.
Sushi Hour is their version of happy hour (4 to 6 [...]

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Tags: $$$ · Chinese · Chopsticks · Downtown · Friendly Waitstaff · Happy Hour · Japanese · Late Night · Liquid Lunch · Lunch and Shopping · Lunch and a Movie · Noodles · Place to Celebrate · SW · Special Events · Stiff Drinks · Sushi · Take MAX · Take the streetcar

Review: Fire on the Mountain (East Burnside)

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Fire on the Mountain
1708 East Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97214
503-230-9464
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Wings, oh, lovely wings! Who doesn’t love a great wings place, right? Sure, you could trek out to the lone Hooters left in Oregon at Jantzen Beach, but for a great local wings place, you really should visit Fire on the Mountain—which now has two locations. Not [...]

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Tags: $$ · Bring the Kids · Burgers · Family Fun · Finger Food · Friendly Waitstaff · Great Fries · Lunch with Friends · Multiple Locations · North · Outdoor Dining · People-Watching · Pickles · SE · Spicy! · Take the Out-of-Towners · Unique to Portland · Vegetarian · Wings

Review: No Fish! Go Fish!

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

No Fish! Go Fish!
3962 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97214
503-235-5378
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I woke up today feeling a little under the weather, but I managed to make it to my lunch appointment with friends at No Fish! Go Fish! Lucky for me the restaurant specializes in comfort food like soup and stuffed sandwiches—and no, despite the name, [...]

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Tags: $ · $$ · Art · Friendly Waitstaff · Neighborhood Haunts · SE · Unique to Portland

Review: Sushi Land

August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Marinepolis Sushi Land (Lloyd location)
1409 NE Weidler Street
Portland, Oregon 97232
503-280-0300
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There are a handful of Sushi Land locations around the metro area and they all feature the train-style conveyor belt of small sushi plates.
I have now visited two of the Portland area Sushi Land restaurants. Typically I go to the Pearl District location when [...]

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Tags: $ · $$ · Bring the Kids · Chains · Chopsticks · Friendly Waitstaff · Japanese · Multiple Locations · NE · Seafood · Sushi · Sushi Train

Review: House of Louie

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

House of Louie
331 NW Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209
503-228-9898
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House of Louie has been around for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until a rebellious night during my freshman year in college that I actually visited the Chinatown restaurant. Being that was more than ten years ago, and the same [...]

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Tags: $$ · Chinese · Downtown · Friendly Waitstaff · I Have a Hangover · NW · Oh So Retro · Old Town/Chinatown · Portland Classic · Take MAX

HH Review: Tiger Bar

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway
Portland, Oregon 97209
(503) 222-7297
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The first time I visited Tiger Bar also happened to be the night of SantaCon, so I won’t mention all the debauchery that I saw go down there that night. Let’s just say the patrons got to see a lot more drunken Santa skin than they [...]

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Tags: $$ · Burgers · Cute Waitstaff · Day Off Spot · Downtown · Finger Food · Friendly Waitstaff · Great Fries · Happy Hour · Hipster-Friendly · Hole-in-the-Wall · Late Night · Lotsa Cheese! · Lotsa Meat! · Music · NW · Neighborhood Haunts · Old Town/Chinatown · Place to Celebrate · Start Happy Hour Early · Stiff Drinks · Stumptown Lunch Favorite · Wings · Worth a Walk in the Rain

Review: Pastini Pastaria

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Pastini Pastaria
(Six locations in the Portland area)
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Pastini Pastaria is pretty much my go-to spot for any sort of family or friend function that entails a large group going out to a restaurant. Sure, some people might consider it Portland’s local version of Olive Garden, but the food is consistently good (even [...]

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Tags: $$ · $$$ · Beaverton · Bring the Kids · Chains · Downtown · Family Fun · Friendly Waitstaff · Italian · Lunch with Friends · Macaroni and Cheese · Mommy Lunches · Multiple Locations · NE · NW · Pasta · Picky Eaters · Place to Celebrate · SE · SW · Salads · Take Mom and Dad · Tualatin · Vegetarian

Review: Pine State Biscuits

June 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

 
Pine State Biscuits
3640 SE Belmont Street
Portland, Oregon 97214
(503) 236-3346
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Who doesn’t love warm flaky biscuits? I certainly do, and one of my favorite meals of all time is biscuits and gravy. So when I heard about Pine State Biscuits, I knew I had to try it out.
When we arrived there was [...]

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Tags: $$ · Biscuits · Foodies Love It · Friendly Waitstaff · Hole-in-the-Wall · Neighborhood Haunts · Pickles · SE · To-Go, Please

Review: Sushi Train

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

 
Sushi Train
19239 SW Martinazzi Avenue
Tualatin, OR 97062
(503) 885-2545
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Yes, gas prices are officially through the roof, so a lot of people are eating out less frequently let alone taking a relatively long drive just to eat out. But if you are a sushi fan, you might want to hop on I-5 and [...]

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Tags: $$ · Buffet · Chopsticks · Day Off Spot · Friendly Waitstaff · Hole-in-the-Wall · Japanese · Road Trip · Seafood · Stumptown Lunch Favorite · Sushi · Sushi Train · Teriyaki · Tualatin