Boke Bowl 1028 SE Water Avenue Portland, OR 97214 Map It! Website | Twitter | Facebook | Menu Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: Portland has a lot of noodle options. Like, A LOT of noodle options. So when the buzz-a-thon about Boke Bowl opening their first permanent location began to spread via Twitter, I knew I [...]

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Hamburger Mary’s 19 NW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 Map It! Ph: 503-688-1200 Website | Twitter | Facebook | Menu Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating:   My recent visit to Portland’s “new” Hamburger Mary’s was on a whim. I was meeting up with a friend and we hadn’t devised a lunch destination in advance. As we [...]

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Oh, summer, where have you gone? Didn’t this summer seem to fly by faster than usual? (Maybe that was because summertime weather didn’t arrive in PDX until about August?) Of course, as we look back at these photos, we realize we certainly made the most of our eating opportunities over the past few months. Here’s [...]

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Kornblatt’s Deli 628 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, Oregon 97210 Map It! 503-242-1027 | Fax: 503-242-1027 Hours: M-F: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat & Sun: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: Oh, the New York City-style deli dilemma…. It’s seems to be a rather important argument here in Portland. Yep, we’ve got [...]

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Jin Wah Restaurant 4021 SW 117th Avenue (across from Fred Meyer; near Beaverton TC) Beaverton, OR 97005 Map It! 503-641-2852 Hours: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. (daily dim sum 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) Website | Lunch money: $$$ Rating: When we hear the text message alert on the iPhone go off before noon on [...]

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Hawaiian Time 505 NW 14th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 Map It! 503-459-4040 ‎ Hours: Sun-Th 11 a.m. to 9 p.m./F-Sat 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Facebook Page | Menu (PDF) | Lunch Money: $$ Rating: Aloha my lovely Stumptown Lunch brahs! Are you ready to grind into some epic “plate lunch” awesomeness? Plate Lunch: A [...]

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California Pizza Kitchen (Bridgeport Village) 7315 SW Bridgeport Road Tigard, OR 97224 (Next to Regal Cinemas) Map It! 503-968-0504 Hours: M-Th 11 a.m.-10 p.m., F-Sat 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m., Sun 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Website | Twitter: @calpizzakitchen | Lunch Money: $$$ Rating: Pizza. It’s a fave food for people from one to 101 (well, if they [...]

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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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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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Pastini Pastaria (Six locations in the Portland area) Map It! Rating:     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 [...]

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