The restaurant opened in 1991 and underwent a renovation in 2013. Bar Mingo is an adjoining bar, and Mingo (also called Mingo West) is a sibling restaurant in Beaverton. Description Ĭaffe Mingo is an Italian restaurant on 21st Avenue in northwest Portland's Northwest District. It’s a natural match for Xico’s mezcal flights, which range from educational to life-changing.45☃1′44″N 122☄1′41″W / 45.5288°N 122.6946°W / 45.5288 -122.6946Ĭaffe Mingo is an Italian restaurant in Portland, Oregon. Don’t miss a crispy, smoldering mass of chile-glazed chips with cotija cheese or slow-roasted goat barbacoa. Oaxaca is represented at Xico-but so is Oregon: playful notes, purist notions, and fresh-ground masa fill out a room that feels like a beach hut with pearls. Tusk's J oshua McFadden and Sam Smith are our 2017 Chefs of the Year. Order omakase: you name the price, and chef-owner Janis Martin will unleash a parade of spicy, salty, and sometimes unidentifiable plates for the whole table, from cinnamon-spiked, tea-stained quail eggs to Netarts oysters under an avalanche of shaved kimchi ice. Tanuki is a cave of debauchery, with unbeatable izakaya (Japanese bar food) and a knockout drink list. The restaurant’s downtown sister spot Tasty n Alder carves out its own niche with a famous radicchio lunch salad and family-style dinners-bone marrow boards to Image: Courtesy David Reamer Tasty n Sons and Tasty n AlderĪt John Gorham’s globe-trotting, all-day brunch spot, you’ll find new ways to love eggs: fried with a cheddar biscuit, over-easy atop spicy North African sausage and couscous, or buried in pepper-sauced shakshuka. In NW Industrial, chef Eric Joppie works his own seasonal magic, anchored by an antique, fire-engine-red rotisserie turning plump chickens with crackling golden skin. Behind the meat display in SE, chef Alex Yoder transforms Cairo’s masterful meat-craft into a rotating feast of Spanish and Mediterranean small plates. Since 2009, salumist Elias Cairo has been forging the resurgence of American charcuterie, spreading his pork-proud gospel to the country’s epicurean edges. The Caesar-esque insalata Nostrana is mandatory, followed by house-made pastas, and hot-from-the-oven fruit crisps so good they might make you gasp. No place in Portland is better suited to please a diverse crowd: foodies, kids, wine-lovers, and your adventure-fearing relatives. Local food legend Cathy Whims presents Italian home cooking as it should be-stripped down, honest, and powered by wood fire. Scarf it down at Nong’s brick-and-mortar, or the flagship downtown or the PSU cart. The food-cart queen hawks the best chicken and rice you can imagine, each butcher’s paper packet holding perfect grains of rice simmered with great hunks of galangal root, poached chicken, a cilantro bouquet, and addictive, nose-tingling sauce.

You won’t find a better, more quintessential lunch in Portland, first-rate quiche to spot-on mussels to world-class brioche pastry plumped with fat berries of the moment.

Kristen Murray’s French-Scandinavian “pastry luncheonette” is a quirky, beautiful, gutsy spot-580 square feet of baking skill, refined palate, and tunnel vision fervor. In between come a fine stuffed trout, a dandy plate of spaghetti and clams, and the best bowl of soup to be found: cappelletti in brodo (stuffed pasta in broth). LuceĪt tiny oak tables, an understated menu kicks off with a carnival of $2 antipasti bites and might end with double-decker sponge cake billowing pastry cream and pistachios. (They’re terrific.) For dessert, consider one of the last reminders of what real ice cream tastes like, with seasonal flavors so ripe they could have fallen from a tree. Sarah Minnick is the bold auteur of the Portland pie, deeply connected to adventurous local farmers and Northwest cheeses. Image: Stuart Mullenberg Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty

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