Cheap Eats 2012
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Award-winning alternative newsweekly Willamette Week recommends 148 restaurants and food carts in Portland, Oregon, to get lunch for less than $10 and dinner for less than $15.
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Cheap Eats 2012
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Contributors
Listings:
A-C
D-F
G-I
J-L
M-O
P-R
S-U
V-Z
Introduction
Consider the taco. Is there a more perfect food? A proper taco is like a squished food pyramid, with protein, fiber and hopefully plenty of fat and salt piled atop a base of starch. Tacos require no utensils. Tacos are filling, and a meal of tacos may be easily scaled to match your appetite. Tacos are delicious. While mediocre tacos abound, the only really bad taco I can recall eating was a hard-shelled monstrosity doused in ketchup at a cactus- and sombrero-themed cantina in northern Spain. Most important, tacos are cheap. A good $2 taco is the apogee of human culinary achievement.
We consumed a lot of tacos while researching this 2012 edition of Cheap Eats, including old favorites (La Jarochita, Taqueria Lindo Michoacan) and new arrivals (Robo Taco, Mi Mero Mole). We also ate inordinate helpings of pizza, burgers and pho. All told, we found 148 restaurants and food carts that merited inclusion in the guide—29 of them brand new. The only requirement, besides deliciousness, is that they serve lunch for less than $10 and dinner for less than $15.
Don’t see your favorite cheap eats in our listings? Send me an email at bwaterhouse@wweek.com and we’ll check it out for next year’s guide. That’s it—get eating!
— Ben Waterhouse
Contributors
Eaters
Craig Beebe, Ruth Brown, Denise Castañon, Martin Cizmar, Kelly Clarke, Liz Crain, Hannah Feldman, Rob Fernas, Jonathan Frochtzwajg, Robert Ham, Marianna Hane Wiles, Rebecca Jacobson, Casey Jarman, Matthew Korfhage, AP Kryza, Kat Merck, Aaron Mesh, Becky Ohlsen, Corey Pein, Brian Panganiban, Matthew Singer, Ethan Smith, Ben Waterhouse.
Editor
Ben Waterhouse
Art Director
Carolyn Richardson
Copy Chief
Rob Fernas
Copy Editors
Matt Buckingham, Kat Merck
Cover Photo
Matt Wong
A-C
@Pho.com
7901 SE Powell Blvd., Suite K, 788-8877, atpho.com. Lunch and dinner Thursday-Tuesday.
You’d never know it from the ridiculous, tech-bubble name, but this tidy, little 82nd Avenue Vietnamese spot makes great real-world grub, from intense, cinnamony pho ($8-$8.95) to addictive deep-fried tofu pockets stuffed with spicy pork pâté that’s part of a combination plate ($10.25). The restaurant’s website boasts it’s like visiting Vietnam without leaving your hometown
and, oddly enough, it kind of is—complete with a Muzak version of Neil Young’s Heart of Gold
wafting through the speakers and the broken-English legend With a lovely smile and healthy food
printed on the windows. You can eat your way through a good portion of the menu by ordering a special (vermicelli rice) noodle bowl ($8.95) or broken-rice platter ($10.75). The grilled pork is charred and juicy, and the kitchen’s sautéed lemongrass tofu ($9.75) is a springy, savory treat. KC.
Al Forno Ferruzza
2738 NE Alberta St., 253-6766, alfornoferruzza.com. Lunch and dinner daily.
It’s no secret that super-hot ovens are the secret to great pizza. Al Forno Ferruzza’s 800-degree stone hearth isn’t blazing its way to any heat records—Via Tribunali’s oven runs at 1,200 downtown—but it seems to do the job quite well, perfectly crisping the restaurant’s pies and giving them a touch of black trim. The toppings at this airy Alberta Street pizzeria include sharp caper berries, gooey sheep’s-milk feta and spicy handmade sausage. The basic Margherita is delicious but the capricozza pie, topped with sausage and capers, takes things to the next level. The medium ($14) is enough for two to share, especially with the generous small house salad ($7) topped with sun-dried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, seeds, raisins and feta cheese and a sweet maple vinaigrette. Al Forno is also a nice place to linger, even when your pie is fast out of the oven. MC.
Arleta Library Bakery Cafe
5513 SE 72nd Ave., 774-4470, arletalibrary.com. Breakfast and lunch daily.
This is the kind of neighborhood spot every neighborhood wishes it had but few actually do. It’s tiny, cozy, worn-in and unfussy. The cafe is known for its biscuits and gravy ($10), and rightly so; the fluffy sweet-potato biscuits come topped with roasted pork loin and rosemary-sausage gravy. Everything on the menu has that same handmade feel, from the Bullseye
breakfast sandwich ($5.50) to the scrumptious Portlander omelet ($8.50). There are a handful of sandwiches for lunch ($7.50), and don’t neglect the baked goods. A bottomless mug of Stumptown coffee ($2) goes nicely with one of Arleta’s Five Dollar macaroons
($2.50), which are dunked in chocolate and coated with pistachios. They’re gluten-free,
a server told me, so you can pretend you’re being healthy.
BO.
Bakery Bar
2935 NE Glisan St., 477-7779, bakerybar.com. Breakfast and lunch daily.
Bakery Bar’s website tells me this so-called bakery does, in fact, turn out some pretty impressive-looking cakes. But that’s not the reason this place is absolutely jammed with cool Kerns kids come Saturday morning. They’re there for the biscuits—dense, soft, flaky and kicked up with black pepper, these are some of the finest specimens you’ll find in this already biscuit-obsessed city. You can get them in sandwich form stuffed with a variety of egg-centric fillings ($4.50-$6), smothered in sausage gravy ($9.50), or as a side to a number of very good hashes ($11), scrambles ($9.75) and various other griddled brunch standards. If you still have room, there are slices of cake (and tarts and cookies and scones) at the counter, but then, if you still have room, why not just order another biscuit? RB.
Best Baguette
8303 SE Powell Blvd., 788-3098; 3635 SW Hall Blvd., 626-2288, thebestbaguette.com. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.
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