Food in Portland

Hash

2008-09-23T14:39:00.000-07:00

Hash
8728 SE 17th Avenue
Portland, OR 97255

http://portlandfood.org/index.php?showtopic=7901

Food Carts in Portland Site

2007-10-09T11:17:00.000-07:00

Just saw a posting for a site dedicated to Portland food carts. After working downtown for a almost all of my working career, this is a site that I am glad to see, and even more glad that I didn't have to invest the time to create it myself!

Portland Hamburgers

2007-09-25T13:30:00.000-07:00

A long time ago I wanted to start a site that reviewed Portland hamburgers. Never did, and now I stumble upon this post from extra msg. Nice to see the subject is getting covered somewhere.

Without going into details, my favorite burger at the moment is the one from the bar at Higgins.

El Gaucho is the Best!

2007-09-14T15:55:00.002-07:00

If your toy poodle dies, this is good info to know.

Crudo

2007-09-10T21:27:00.000-07:00

NPR ran a story over their story of the day podcast feed on crudo, an Itallian preparation of raw seafood. Didn't see a local resteraunt in a quick google search, so I started a thread at portlandfood.org.

Review of India Chaat House

2007-08-01T12:28:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I made the 9 block hike from my work to the India Chaat House to try it out. Overall, I enjoyed the food. There was the expected line when I arrived at 12:10, and I would say it took about 7 minutes to get to the front. I ordered the lunch special, and rather than making me one fresh they gave me a special that had been ordered by phone but not picked up. I didn't really care but thought this would be the test to see if the food was still good by the time I made it back to the office.

I have to say that the lunch was better prepared than all of the other Indian food carts I have visited downtown. It does not taste as good as a restaurant where the dish might have been prepared fresh, but the spices and other flavors were more balanced and it tasted like care and expertise went into the preparation. The portions were much larger than necessary, but that seems to be an expectation of the Indian carts in general. They were not as big as some of the other carts where the food was not as good.

I give the cart 4 out of 5. Good enough that I would go back if I was craving Indian and had the time for the walk, but I am not dieing to pay another visit.

Wild About Game

2007-08-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

Nicky USA is putting on Wild About Game on October 14-21, 2007.

India Chaat House

2007-07-30T17:29:00.000-07:00

This Indian cart was written up in wweek. Putting on the list for trying out for lunch some day.

India Chaat House (cart)
804 SW 12th Ave., 241-7944. Lunch and early dinner Monday-Saturday. Cash only.
One of the best Indian lunch carts in town, the all-vegetarian Chaat House (well, chaat van, actually) serves up a mean lunch special ($5) that includes rice, naan bread and one of a rotating array of three entrees (saag, korma and aloo among them). The Aloo Saag ($5) is packed with potatoes and spinach, perfectly spiced. The breads ($1.25-$2) are deliciously fluffy, and all portions are massive. It's a busy place, but well worth the wait, my good friend. (APK)

Le Pigeon

2007-07-27T14:42:00.001-07:00

This is high on my list of next places to try: http://www.lepigeon.com/

The Country Cat

2007-07-27T14:40:00.000-07:00

This post made this place sound like a good place to try: http://www.thecountrycat.net/

Portland Food Blogs

2007-07-27T14:36:00.001-07:00

I am sure these are linked at a ton of other places, but here they are for my own reference.

Portland Food Forum: http://www.portlandfood.org/

Good blog by an active local food blogger: http://www.extramsg.com/

Another good blog: http://www.portlandfoodanddrink.com/

Created a new blog!

2007-07-27T14:33:00.000-07:00

I was recently linked to a set of blogs that got me excited about eating out again. Rather than keeping track of all of them separately, it seemed easier to launch a new blog with my finds and links so I can use it myself and point friends to it.