Andy Ricker spent years traveling and eating in northern Thailand before opening Pok Pok in 2005 as a tiny shack in his front yard on SE Division Street in Portland, serving Vietnamese-style fish sauce chicken wings and the regional Thai food of Chiang Mai that most Americans had never encountered. The restaurant grew from that […]
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7, ThaiRodney Muirhead grew up in Texas, moved to Portland, and got tired of not being able to find Texas-style BBQ. In 2006 he opened Podnah’s Pit Barbecue on NE Killingsworth and started smoking brisket, ribs, and sausage over oak and pecan the way he grew up eating it. Portland took notice immediately. Podnah’s appeared in
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Barbecue, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7Tommy Habetz was a serious chef — former sous chef at Mario Batali’s Lupa in New York — when he and Nick Wood decided to open a small sandwich shop in Portland in 2008. The name comes from Bunk Moreland, the detective from The Wire, and also functions as the owners calling out anyone in
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain appeared in Season 6, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Old Time Favorites,” which aired June 22, 2009, as a Portland downtown diner and soda fountain operating in the classic American lunch counter tradition — counter seating, egg creams, old-fashioned soda fountain drinks, and the diner food that
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6Brian Snyder, Walt Alexander, and Kevin Atchley grew up in North Carolina, moved to Portland, and missed biscuits the way transplanted Southerners always miss the specific foods of home. They spent months developing a recipe before debuting at the Portland Saturday Farmers Market in 2006, where the lines stretched to an hour within weeks. By
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Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6Otto’s Sausage Kitchen and Meat Market on SE Woodstock Boulevard in Portland has been making sausages the German way — house-ground meat, traditional spicing, natural casings, smoked over real wood — since the Eichentopf family opened it in 1936. Four generations later the family operation is still running, still making the same bratwurst, knockwurst, and
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6Arleta Library Bakery and Cafe on SE 72nd at Harold in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood takes its name from the Arleta School building that once occupied the site — a neighborhood institution repurposed into a bakery and cafe that functions as a neighborhood institution of a different kind. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of
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