Frank’s Noodle House on NE Broadway in Portland has been a city Chinese noodle institution since it opened, building a menu around hand-pulled and hand-cut noodles made fresh daily in the northern Chinese tradition that earns a Portland restaurant its destination reputation among the city’s serious noodle enthusiasts. It appeared in Season 18, Episode 5
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Chinese, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 18PDX671 Food Trailer appeared in Season 18, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Cannoli, Fritters and Wings,” which aired September 16, 2013, as a Portland Guamanian food trailer bringing the chamorro cooking traditions of Guam — red rice, chicken kelaguen, kare kare, and the island comfort food of the Mariana Islands — to a
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 18Country Cat Dinnerhouse and Bar on Southeast Stark Street in Portland’s Montavilla neighborhood was one of the city’s most celebrated American comfort food restaurants from the time Adam Sappington opened it in 2007, building a menu around whole-animal butchery, scratch-made comfort food, and the farm-to-table Pacific Northwest ingredient sourcing that earned it a James Beard
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American, Comfort Food, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 18Industrial Cafe and Saloon appeared in Season 18, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Neighborhood Knockouts,” which aired August 26, 2013, as a Portland Northwest District American cafe and saloon serving scratch-made comfort food and the kind of creative bar food that earned a Northwest Portland neighborhood its go-to neighborhood restaurant. The restaurant has
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American, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 18Edelweiss Sausage and Delicatessen on SE 12th Avenue in Portland has been a city German deli institution since it opened in 1944, producing house-made German sausages, imported European meats and cheeses, and the Central European deli experience that earns a Pacific Northwest city its most authentic connection to German food culture across nearly 80 years
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 17Shirley’s Tippy Canoe appeared in Season 17, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “From the Heart,” which aired August 12, 2013, as a Troutdale, Oregon retro diner and sandwich shop sitting on the Columbia River with a setting that made it one of the most scenic roadside restaurants in the Pacific Northwest — serving
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Oregon, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Seafood, Season 17Andy 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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