Abyssinian Kitchen | 2625 SE 21st Abyssinian Kitchen—named for the kingdom that once spanned Ethiopia and Eritrea—is easy to miss. Tucked into the first floor of an inconspicuous Southeast Portland bungalow with only a small sign to signify its existence, the restaurant isn’t clamoring for attention—and it doesn’t need to. The tangy, fresh, and filling […]
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2018’s Best Bites from Portland’s Best New Restaurants
Food critics are a lot like record collectors: obsessive, picky and absolutely convinced our taste is better than yours (it is). So in honor of the best record-adjacent movie of all time, I’m going to pull a High Fidelity and turn this last column of 2018 into a top five list of the foods I […]
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Stretch The Noodle Will Stretch Your Stomach, Not Your Budget
Eat A Dizzying Amount of Hand Stretched Noodles At This Downtown Cart
Have you ever eaten so many noodles you’ve gotten lightheaded? It’s only happened to me a few times, but twice it was from grossly overconsuming the thick, hand-stretched noodles from downtown cart Stretch the Noodle. There aren’t many options in Portland for Chinese-style hand-pulled noodles, and the undisputed cheapest and most bountiful of them all […]