Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 > I'm going to a conference in downtown Portland Oregon next weekend. I > haven't been there before and was wondering if anyone who's been there > can recommend good places to eat for seafood and/or traditional foods. > I'll be on foot downtown, but walking 5 or 10 blocks is not a problem. > > Portland is a wonderland for that sort of thing. Higgins (Broadway and Jefferson) is a high-end restaurant and bar that serves local NW organic grass-fed wild caught everything. We went there once and my 18 yo DD said, I don't even know what the words on the menu are (things like mesclun, lol) Seafood, try McCormick and Schmidt's. It's also a traditional white- tablecloth old timey place where you can get things like oyster shooters. Kell's Irish for high-quality restaurant/pub food. They have a really good chef who uses imported Irish cheese, cream, and butter, and the beef and soda bread is traditional too but not soaked I bet. Steakhouse, there is a Morton's but my favorite is the Ringside on Burnside. It's really old school - they have pictures of boxers on the wall from the days when successful boxers put on their diamond pinkie rings and had 2-pound steaks. Not grass fed but prime and wonderfully cooked. Also my favorite, creamed spinach with real cream. ALL the best hotels have local wonderful food. I think they compete with each other for the best local slow-food movement stuff. Connie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 --- Connie <cbrown2008@...> wrote: > Portland is a wonderland for that sort of thing. > > ALL the best hotels have local wonderful food. I think they compete > with each other for the best local slow-food movement stuff. Thanks Connie. They all sound good to me. I'll check them out on google maps. In four days I'll probably gain back the four pounds it took me the last month to lose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 , > > Portland is a wonderland for that sort of thing. > > > > ALL the best hotels have local wonderful food. I think they compete > > with each other for the best local slow-food movement stuff. > > Thanks Connie. They all sound good to me. I'll check them out on > google maps. In four days I'll probably gain back the four pounds it > took me the last month to lose Ditto everything Connie said. I would also add the El Gaucho Steakhouse, better than Morton's in my opinion. Last time I was in Portland, Oregon, I caught the Amtrak from Seattle, which took about 3 hours and was ridiculously cheap, met my friend and we had a sumptuous meal and a great time at El Gaucho. As for the weight gain, if you stick with meat and veggies you should be fine. That is the little sceret that works for me when I am vacationing. -- " Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine messianic force, to be a sort of policeman of the whole world... " - Luther King Jr. " The individual who can do something that the world wants will, in the end, make his way regardless of race. " - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 --- <slethnobotanist@...> wrote: > I would also add the El Gaucho Steakhouse, better than Morton's in > my opinion. Last time I was in Portland, Oregon, I caught the Amtrak > from Seattle, which took about 3 hours and was ridiculously cheap, > met my friend and we had a sumptuous meal and a great time at El > Gaucho. Thanks , I'll add it to the list. > As for the weight gain, if you stick with meat and veggies you > should be fine. That is the little secret that works for me when I > am vacationing. Yeah, I try to stay low carb, but last year when I went to Albuquerque I had a LOT of excellent New Mexican cuisine and gained about 3 pounds 3 days (maybe 2 pounds was from all the salt That food does have quite a bit of carbs though. I still remember the posole. You might appreciate it with your pork background, especially the Guerrero breakfast version that comes with a shot of mezcal to get your daily dose of mycotoxin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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