Category Archives: American
Breakside Brewery
Breakside is a brewery and restaurant in Northeast Portland that features classic pub food and beer. The brain child of two local corporate refugees, this restaurant is marked by its clever design, beautiful wood and concrete form factors, and friendly waitstaff. On our first visit, we sampled their fire roasted jalapeno poppers. This appetizer features [...]
GoGo Burger
GoGo Burger is a former Mongolian restaurant in the Hillsboro/Beaverton area that was a very pleasant surprise. This is not the place for you if you are a vegetarian, or if you are hung up on the kind of fancy coddled specialty food you find in a lot of other Portland restaurants. This is very [...]
Lucy’s Table (Closed)
Lucy’s Table is an upscale restaurant in NW Portland on the corner of NW 21st and Lovejoy in Nob Hill. We visited this restaurant on a very rainy spring evening and came in with a soggy misconception about how our visit would go. The white tablecloths, fancy menu, hyper attentive waitstaff, and decor led us [...]
Violetta
Violetta is a locally-sourced burger restaurant in Downtown Portland near Pioneer Courthouse Square in Director Park. It is an unusual glass structure that is difficult to miss. This place is very unassuming and from the outside, I would’ve thought they sold travel arrangements or some other pretension. Instead, Violetta serves some of the best hamburgers [...]
