Spencer's Food Adventures

Tag: restaurants

  • New Sandwich Roundup

    This post is about my favorite new sandwiches in town, whether a new addition to the menu or a new sandwich shop. Four ones to talk about, let’s get into it. Smoked Chicken Salad Sando from HarBq. For those that don’t know, HarBq is a food cart posted up at Von Ebert Brewing in inner…

  • Weekend Eats Part 2

    This is the second weekend of consecutive excellent eating spanning from Friday lunch through Sunday lunch. Most days I eat just one midday meal. I ate at Wonderboy’s Smokestack, Matt’s BBQ Tacos, Yum’s of PDX and checked out the new Hollywood Q food hall that had a soft opening this weekend. Pulled Pork Sandwich and…

  • Weekend Eats

    I had a great weekend of eating so for this post I decided I would post in order what I ate from Friday to Sunday. I ate at HarBQ, Fried Egg I’m In Love, Burger Syndicate, Red Sauce Pizza, and Pip’s Original Doughnuts. Chicken Salad Sandwich with queso mac from HarBQ. HarBQ is a BBQ…

  • Break Bread Sandwich Shop

    Break Bread is a sandwich shop that opened up in 2019. Tucked away in an office building in SW Portland, it’s primary role seems to have been to service all the office workers in that part of town where the World Trade Building is. Over time though the word got out that this is a…

  • Mahi Taco

    Mahi Taco is one of my favorite food carts located in the Piedmont Station Food Carts on NE Killingsworth St. Open going on ten years now, Jeff at Mahi serves up Baja style tacos and Hawaiian food. The common theme being the beach. These are some of the best Baja style fish tacos I’ve had,…

  • Red Sauce Pizza

    Red Sauce Pizza is a beloved Pizza restaurant on NE Fremont that has been open for over a decade now. Not too long ago they started selling their famous “Big Hank’s Hoagies” as a lunch special. Now they have added some other lunch specials like a $9 1-topping small pizza or a 1-topping Tavern pie.…

  • Ate-Oh-Ate

    Portland has seen a number of excellent Hawaiian restaurants and food carts open in the last few years. Some of my favorites are Kau Kau (which I have a post about) and GrindwitTryz are serving up some of the best food in town. One constant however has been Ate-Oh-Ate (named after the Hawaiian area code…

  • Tacos Fita

    Tacos Fita, one of the best food carts in Portland, just opened up a new restaurant in Beaverton. Tacos Fita serves up some of the best Mexican food. Tacos, burritos, bowls, all centered around their delicious and perfectly seasoned and grilled meats. All the standard meats you would expect, plus bonus specialties like Ribeye, Shrimp…

  • Lardo Chefwich

    Lardo, the venerable and iconic Portland sandwich restaurant helmed by Rick Gencarelli has a monthly special, the “chefwich” where he invites a local chef to craft a special sandwich that sells for the month and part of the proceeds go to a charity of the chef’s choosing. I’m not sure when exactly this started, but…

  • The Meddling Lime

    Some of my favorite Mexican inspired food of recent memory has been from the food cart The Meddling Lime located at 6200 SE Milwaukie Ave in Portland, OR. Tacos, burritos, pozole, breakfast burritos/tacos, but also fare like bowls and crispy rice dishes. They have a really deep menu that is executed flawlessly and is built…