Wong Kee Dim Sum Restaurant 28 NW 4th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 503-229-1888 Map It! Rating: Believe it or not, until a few weeks ago I’d never had dim sum. How could that be, you ask? Well, I don’t know. I frequently eat at the Chinese restaurants in Chinatown and many of them offer dim [...]

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Skyline Restaurant 1313 NW Skyline Boulevard Portland, OR 97229 503-292-6727 Map It! Rating: Foodies around the world know the name James Beard, one of the most acclaimed American chefs of all time, so it’s a little odd to see a browned-with-age newspaper clipping framed on the wall at Skyline touting Beard’s professed devotion for this [...]

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Thai Food Café 833 N. Killingsworth Street Portland, OR 97217 503-285-8745 Map It! Rating: Oh how I miss living in my old neighborhood. Not only did I live in the cutest of cute lil’ bungalow, but I was just a short walk or even shorter drive from all the hotspots of North and inner Northeast [...]

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Silver Dollar Pizza II 225 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 503-241-3465 Map It! Rating: I’m not going to try to fool you; Silver Dollar Pizza II is not an upscale restaurant by any means. In fact, the place is pretty much a dive bar, serving up their stiff drinks to the often-smoking and drinking clientele. [...]

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Rose’s Restaurant and Bakery (Lloyd Center location) 1200 NE Broadway Portland, Oregon 97232 503-954-2758 Map it! Rating: 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 [...]

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Billy Heartbeats (Lloyd Center Mall) 2039 Lloyd Center Portland, OR 97204 503-288-6010 Map It! Rating: 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 [...]

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Five Guys Burger and Fries 2606 SW Cedar Hills Boulevard Beaverton, OR 97005 503-430-8748 Map it! Rating:   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 [...]

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Dragonfish Asian Café 909 SW Park Avenue Portland, Oregon 97205 503-243-5991 Map It! Rating: 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 [...]

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Fire on the Mountain 1708 East Burnside Portland, Oregon 97214 503-230-9464 Map It! Rating: 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 [...]

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No Fish! Go Fish! 3962 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Portland, Oregon 97214 503-235-5378 Map It! Rating: 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 [...]

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Marinepolis Sushi Land (Lloyd location) 1409 NE Weidler Street Portland, Oregon 97232 503-280-0300 Map It! Rating: 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 [...]

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House of Louie 331 NW Davis Street Portland, Oregon 97209 503-228-9898 Map It! Rating:   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 [...]

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