Good call; forgot about that one.
Edit: Cava out, Simpatica in.

Thank you Patrick THANK YOU!
I want to slap people when I hear the term foodie - 'Oh, YOU like to EAT good FOOD? HOW UNIQUE!'

If a Portland, OR publication saw fit to hire you to eat food and then write about it for a living, you are a foodie. There really isn't any room for argument here. Just like there are different kinds of Mormons, ice cream and douchebags, there are different kinds of foodies. Not all of them blog photos of every meal they eat, or ostentatiously coo over [insert ingredient known only to foodies]. Just accept it.

And thanks for posting the list, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

I've had about a third of the stuff on this list.

I'm just goin to come out and say it; Apizza Schools if fucking over-rated. There is better pie in this town. Just because Tony B. ate there and it's been on some TV shows doesn't make it awesome or worth the wait or the price.

PAC: you, sir, are no foodie.

PDX plate, on the other hand, is the quintessential foodie site. They are knowledgable and well-travelled, though.

I've got to raise issue with the complete absence of beer from this list. That's all.

The editor/publisher of PDXPlate does not drink/like beer. Whiskey on the other hand...

I'm over the foodie term. Ruth Reichel the grande dame from Gourmet declared war on it on what, like 2001, so you know it's time for a comeback. Like the words feminist or the N-word, or F.A.You Know What. Who the F-Cares whatever other people think?

If you like food, and like to read, think and talk about it then you are a foodie or or gourmet/gourmand or whatever you want to call it. Some people might just say you are French/Spanish/Italian/Chinese/or Thai, cause that is their culture's number one past time. I guarantee as that one crazy Cajun chef woulda said. Where's the shame in that? You don't need to call yourself a "foodie" or anything else, Nor do you have to accept others calling you that, nor anything else.

But you know know, sticks and stones can break bones but foodie words just taste delicious. Plus, I'd rather spend time hunting out that awesome lamb BBQ taco truck in deep SE, or looking for real stone ground grits from Ayers Farm or putting that first sweet-as-sin Hood River strawberry in my mouth which was better than losing my virginity with a super stud while on E during high-school prom. Yeah, it was.

Not into the "cult of the pizza" either btw. It's a slice of FUCKING PIZZA IN CASE YOU NEEDED REMINDING. THEY DO IT MORE AND BETTER IN OTHER PLACES EVERY DAY WITH NO HYPE. But I do like A Pizza Scholls, still. My take, Portland has great food, but overall we are still a fairly adolescent culture in general that needs to **** over feel, over define, and over express*** ourselves in general, so it fits that our food culture fits into that equation. Kind of like the goth kids in my study hall.

Of course I had a wonderful dinner of Jamon Serron, tortilla Espanola, migas with poached eggs and gazpacho for dinner washed down by copious amounts of Rosado (you would have never guessed!) so that's just the devil foodie in me talking. But I have to say, Whole foods sucks ass. No farro, no decent Chiorizo, and no Jamon Iberico or even Jamon Serrano. BAH. I call BS on their over priced faux healthy foodie empire. No farro? A wonderful ancient whole grain filled with fiber and vitamins, You have to be kidding me.

Still, whatever. I stand by my claim: Good Food For the Masses with the Food Carts and Urban Edibles and the plenty of cheap ass Asian and Hispanic Groceries in Portland. Thank the F God cause otherwise this place would really suck.

And word, we foodies sure can hold our liquor. That's a bonus.

Simp = Pimp = Chicken and Waffles.

I've given up fighting the word "foodie". I don't like the connotations of someone who cares more about appearances than substance, who is obsessed with "the next big thing", etc, etc. But it works well enough. The hell with it. I always preferred "food geek".

PAC if you're not a foodie, then you're a poseur. Decide which you'd rather be. ;-)

Thanks for the link.

@ CBF & Graham

"Just a slice of pizza"? I wish my bustline wasn't approaching yours, CBF, or I'd be eating that "over-hyped" pizza a lot more often -- along with a lot of the other great pies in this town. I don't understand what "just a slice of pizza means", though. Is pizza inferior to ham and eggs, especially if called a tortilla con jamon?

I wish people would recognize that generally what they mean when they say something is over-hyped is really that they're offended that other people like it more than them.

I've long believed that once you reach a certain level of execution and ingredients that the question of how good something is becomes more about your personal preferences than about anything more objective (or based in tradition, standards, etc.) Apizza Scholls -- along with Nostrana, Ken's, Al Forno Ferruzza, Tastebud, Apizza Stayton, and Firehouse -- makes an excellent pie in its tradition, with top quality ingredients and execution. For me, it's my favorite among all those. It just fits my palate better. Which is why I had "Tony B" go there. And having eaten most of the other pies in its tradition in NY, I can say that, no, others don't do it better regularly every day. We're lucky to have them here.