Well, any place that sells a giant bowl of booze (with 18" straws!) for under $10 is bound to stay open forever.

Thoughts on the food quality notwithstanding, Cup and Saucer will seemingly never die.

Original Taco House is the worst restaurant I've ever been to in Portland.

My wife and I had the same curiosity and ate at the one on 82nd a couple of years ago.

The food...bland and not that good. The guacamole was that weird green mayonnaise-ish sort of stuff.

The service was incredible though. I like chips and salsa, the waiter noticed I was hogging the chips and salsa so he brought me MY OWN!

We haven't been back and probably won't go back...there are so many better places to go in Portland.

I'd like a story on Hotcake House.

I've threatened my wife several times with doing a survey of all the old school dinner houses in Portland -- most of them out this way in east county. Places like The Pink Feather or Clyde's or The Kettle Inn or even Sayler's. I've never had the stomach for it. Hopefully you can find the gems and stick with those, rather than the inexplicable turds of continued popularity, like The Original Taco House. Afterall, I'd like you to live on.

Nice idea, msg. Patrick, get on this. Please to be starting at that Spaghetti house(?) on Skidmore, half a block in from Interstate. I've driven by for years and it's seemingly always busy. A million blue-hairs can't all have poor taste, eh?

I'm thinking, at least in my neighborhood, that the stayers will be the Stone, Bay Leaf, Hedge House (and probably all the Lompoc spots), that sushi place on Gladstone and Dot's.

Places I really hope stick around: Thai Food Cafe on Killingsworth (they've got mad Thai competition on the street), the Los Gorditos restaurant (coming when?), Papa G's and Sweet Pea.

@Oregometry

The Los Gorditos restaurant is open! It's on the corner of 12th and Division.