Carl wrote: >From: [email removed] (Carl) >Subject: Wanted: Good food in Portland Oregon >Date: 7 Jan 1995 08:11:00 GMT >I lived in CT for a year and loved visiting NYC's wonderful restaurants. >Now I live in Portland Oregon and I'm craving the sophisticated yet >passionately prepared cuisine of the big apple. I'd love some suggestions >for favorite Portland Restaurants.....especially Italian! (Please, the >Olive Garden doesn't qualify) I'll post my findings as I become more >familiar with the restaurants here. >Thanks, >[email removed] Carl, Two Portland restaurants were mentioned in Esquire's "10 Best New Restaurants of 1994." They were: Pazzo and Wildwood, 1221 NW 21st Street, 503/248-9663. Wildwood is the new place; Pazzo was mentioned in a side-bar. I may also be moving to Portland in the next 3-6 months; please visit these places and give us a review; please include menu recommendations and a price reference. Thanks. Richard
Portland, OR
Wanted: Good food in Portland Oregon
Carl wrote: >I lived in CT for a year and loved visiting NYC's wonderful restaurants. >Now I live in Portland Oregon and I'm craving the sophisticated yet >passionately prepared cuisine of the big apple. I'd love some suggestions >for favorite Portland Restaurants.....especially Italian! (Please, the >Olive Garden doesn't qualify) I'll post my findings as I become more >familiar with the restaurants here. >Thanks, >[email removed] Try Genoa for an exceptional, but expensive, Northern Italian prixe-fixe meal that holds up to any meal anywhere. Great people running the place with such joy and delight at what they can set before you...last time had swordfish with a wild mint pesto that restored my faith in humanity. Great wine list, wonderful desserts...what else? This is no Olive Garden Spaghetti Factory crapola...Far from it! Bob Rini Seattle
Carl wrote: > > > >Now I live in Portland Oregon and I'm craving the sophisticated yet >passionately prepared cuisine of the big apple. I'd love some suggestions >for favorite Portland Restaurants.....especially Italian! ( Try Esparza's at Twenty eighth and SE Ankeny-great tex-mex. Good Dog Bad Dog downtown on Alder between Broadway and Park. No great Italian restaurants I know of, but Bastas on NW 23rd is ok. Doris' soul food and bar b que at Russell and Martin Luther King is great, especially on Sunday afternoon.
RE: sophisticated dining in Portland: There is a superb Italian (with a French flair) restaurant in Portland: Genoa, on the east side of the river. It has been there over 20 years and has a loyal clientele (even a gorgeous newsletter). Not cheap, and not fast, I would allow around three hours and about $60 per person plus wine. Michael Kucher (ex New Yorker) [email removed]
RE: Pazzo in Portland. I too was quite impressed by a few appetizers we had at Pazzo. I also thought they had a respectable and well-priced selection of wine by the glass. But Pazzo is in a different league from, say, Genoa. First of all it is more crowded, noisy, bustling, etc. Second, it is owned by some large firm in the Bay Area, which isn't in itself bad, in fact the only clue is the spiffy menus, printed in several colors. But corporate food will never be the same as that found in a place where the chef is among the owners, IMHO. Michael Kucher [email removed]
From what I understand Montage is a great place to go. Also Zells, I think that is the name, has fantastic huckleberry pancakes. Portland is a food town. Lots of good restaurants that come and go. It seems like a good town to explore new and old restaurants. Carol
Portland, my former hometown, is an up-and-coming food town. The northwest section of the city in particular is home to a couple of GREAT places: Zefiro (21st and Glisan) is most probably the best spot in the city for eclectic and creative cooking. Wildwood are also hot spots. For expensive NW cuisine the Heathman Hotel is a must. There are great little ethnic places: Tara Thai House (SW Watson in Beaverton), Tak Kee off W. Burnside for excellent Cantonese-seafood...I could go on...please email me for more suggestions. Cheers. Elizabeth Davis
> I lived in CT for a year and loved visiting NYC's wonderful restaurants. > Now I live in Portland Oregon and I'm craving the sophisticated yet > passionately prepared cuisine of the big apple. I'd love some suggestions > for favorite Portland Restaurants.....especially Italian! First choice is Genoa which is Italian but more continental. Would also recommend Nicks Italian Cafe in McMinnville (a jaunt but in the heart of wine country). Also there is a French restaurant which still serves a multi-course dinner - located on the west side. Can't think of the name of it but they also have a bar with more causual but equally excellent menu. I'd be interested in ones you find as I like to eat in Portland on my way to South or West (I live in Seattle). Mary
If you want to try some of Portland's older places, you might want to try Dan & Louis Oyster Bar. The oldest place in town I think. Also Huber's lunch place downtown is quite an experience. The original Original Pancake House (I think that's the name ) is out on Multnomah and is terrific. Have fun, Robert
writes: <snip> I live in Philly, but have family in Portland. They took me to a great place in Aloha called Pappa Razzi's that is family owned, great food, and HUGE portions. I'm afraid you won't get much NYC atmosphere, but the food is worth it! -Ken [email removed]
We just moved from Portland and so far you have received some good suggestions: Zefiros. Wildwood, Jakes, the Heathman. I also recommend Higgins, MiSoHappy on 23rd for Asian food, Cody's Cafe on 21st is good and has the best pie!!!, Cafe des Amies has great French food as does L'Auberge. Unfortunately there are not too many good Italian restaurants. Bangkok Kitchen in SE has the best Thai food in town and the owner/chef is very entertaining. If you want more suggestions, just e-mail me, we loved Portland and miss a lot!!