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A few local restaurants I like aren't going to be opening their doors again. Hopefully some
Sushi it doesnt even have to be great Sushi at this point, just good sushi will do...
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
A few local restaurants I like aren't going to be opening their doors again. Hopefully some
Sushi it doesnt even have to be great Sushi at this point, just good sushi will do...
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I'm missing korean bbq like crazy too. Cant uber eats that.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
I'm missing korean bbq like crazy too. Cant uber eats that.
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I spent like 2 1/2 hours on Door Dash, Uber Eats and other apps Sunday / Sat looking for Sushi, couldnt find any... Most of the stuff available was fast food...
 
donkiez said:
Southpark is downtown Portland. Their chowder is the best I've ever had by far.
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Try their grilled King salmon. Very rare to find a restaurant that doesn't overcook their salmon. South Park does an excellent job. Another excellent featuire is their oysters on the half shell. It's almost impossible to find a restaurant that serves it's oysters on the half shell with no shell fragments in it. South Park served them with zero shell fragments in their oysters. Also, the oysters were served with the meat completely severed from the shell. What's worse than trying to slurp up an oyster on the half shell just to find that the oyster clings to the shell.

My wife and I loved South Park. Best seafood restaurant we've been in since the Crab Bowl in it's original location on Barbur or the Crab Pot at the intersection of 1010 and hwy 26. By the way, the Crab Pot served crab cakes with a crab gravy that was to die for. The Crab pot was a four star restaurant.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
I'm missing korean bbq like crazy too. Cant uber eats that.
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Good Korean restaurants are hard to find in Portland. We find good Korean food in the Lakewood area of Tacoma. There used to be a Korean buffet at the Olympic hotel in Bellevue but I think it's long gone.
 
Lanny said:
Try their grilled King salmon. Very rare to find a restaurant that doesn't overcook their salmon. South Park does an excellent job. Another excellent featuire is their oysters on the half shell. It's almost impossible to find a restaurant that serves it's oysters on the half shell with no shell fragments in it. South Park served them with zero shell fragments in their oysters. Also, the oysters were served with the meat completely severed from the shell. What's worse than trying to slurp up an oyster on the half shell just to find that the oyster clings to the shell.

My wife and I loved South Park. Best seafood restaurant we've been in since the Crab Bowl in it's original location on Barbur or the Crab Pot at the intersection of 1010 and hwy 26. By the way, the Crab Pot served crab cakes with a crab gravy that was to die for. The Crab pot was a four star restaurant.
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If you want great seafood and King salmon that is even better than South Park's, try Ray's Boat House. Kind of spendy but great ambience and top notch food. Parking is strictly valet parking.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Gourmet mexican spot in El Segundo called Calo Kitchen. Not authentic, but its awesome.

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donkiez said:
Southpark is downtown Portland. Their chowder is the best I've ever had by far.
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THE HCP said:
DU’s right down the street FAMS!
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EL PRESIDENTE said:
I'm missing korean bbq like crazy too. Cant uber eats that.
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Lanny said:
Try their grilled King salmon. Very rare to find a restaurant that doesn't overcook their salmon. South Park does an excellent job. Another excellent featuire is their oysters on the half shell. It's almost impossible to find a restaurant that serves it's oysters on the half shell with no shell fragments in it. South Park served them with zero shell fragments in their oysters. Also, the oysters were served with the meat completely severed from the shell. What's worse than trying to slurp up an oyster on the half shell just to find that the oyster clings to the shell.

My wife and I loved South Park. Best seafood restaurant we've been in since the Crab Bowl in it's original location on Barbur or the Crab Pot at the intersection of 1010 and hwy 26. By the way, the Crab Pot served crab cakes with a crab gravy that was to die for. The Crab pot was a four star restaurant.
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Damn, I envy you guys...we just don't have the selection y'all have...the sushi/sashimi is only fair down here. The best steaks are the ones I grill...and Lanny, I just WISH we could get fresh salmon down here...I love to grill it, smoke it, and occasionally I can find some sushi grade salmon...just gimme a whole plate of raw sashimi, soy with a little wasabi mixed in...and I'm in heaven.
 
Jeff Ruby's in downtown Nashville

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ABM said:
We have plenty more here than banjos. Thanks for noticing, though.
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Ahhh, so if there's a lot of banjos, there must also be a lot of banjo players. We also have a lot of other things other than banjos in Georgia too, but you already knew that.
 
Lanny said:
Try their grilled King salmon. Very rare to find a restaurant that doesn't overcook their salmon. South Park does an excellent job. Another excellent featuire is their oysters on the half shell. It's almost impossible to find a restaurant that serves it's oysters on the half shell with no shell fragments in it. South Park served them with zero shell fragments in their oysters. Also, the oysters were served with the meat completely severed from the shell. What's worse than trying to slurp up an oyster on the half shell just to find that the oyster clings to the shell.

My wife and I loved South Park. Best seafood restaurant we've been in since the Crab Bowl in it's original location on Barbur or the Crab Pot at the intersection of 1010 and hwy 26. By the way, the Crab Pot served crab cakes with a crab gravy that was to die for. The Crab pot was a four star restaurant.
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This man Southparks! We love it there, its our special occasion location. Its kind of spendy but their happy hour is not too bad. Love their oysters on a half shell, the mignonette sauce they use is so good that even my wife now likes raw oysters and $7 for 3 happy hour special is not too bad a price for good oysters. Fish and chips are perfection, the shrimp and grits are the best this side of Charleston, even their pizza and hamburgers are great! I've never had the salmon but I will one day and based on their track record Im sure its fantastic.
 
Lanny said:
Good Korean restaurants are hard to find in Portland. We find good Korean food in the Lakewood area of Tacoma. There used to be a Korean buffet at the Olympic hotel in Bellevue but I think it's long gone.
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Yeah, the selection in LA is unbelievable. We usually do Korean BBQ once a month, I love the thinly sliced brisket.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Ever go to Kayne Steakhouse? We were gonna do that for my bro's bach party but ended up at Peg Leg Porker instead.
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Actually, no. Heard it was awesome, though! Will have to try sometime. It's just that we have $150 in Jeff Ruby's gift cards and figure we'd use them.

BTW, here's an awesome Nashville restaurant! We've been there a couple of times. Very cool concept!

https://www.hocnashville.com/
 
None. Not interested in eating in restaurants anymore.

barfo
 
Southland BBQ is great BBQ in Portland also, probably end up there. I also like The Original Dineraunt for their chicken and waffles.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
Nostrana/Oven & Shaker
XLB (did take out on Sunday. Awesome!)
Mother’s Bistro
Assembly Brewing
Life Of Pie
La Provence
Holy Taco

And that’s just the first two days......
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Been to La Provence a few times. Good, but not excellent. Very spendy.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Yeah, the selection in LA is unbelievable. We usually do Korean BBQ once a month, I love the thinly sliced brisket.
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We've had great Korean food in LA. GREAT. Went there once to a Korean restaurant with Mags, his fiancee (now his wife) and his mom. You've never met nicer people.
We went to a Korean restaurant in Chicago that had absolutely delicious food. Our table as separated from the entry by a thin partition so we could hear those that entered but not see them. So, one guy comes in speaking perfect Korean with no trace whatsoever of any accent. As he came around the corner we saw that he was Caucasian and spoke perfect English. God, I was jealous.
Best Korean food we ever had outside of Korea was probably in West Virginia near Washington, D.C. They had a buffet that was to die for, They had not only great Kalbi but mouth watering kimchees and two drinks, one a sweet rice punch and the other a sweet cinnamon punch, both chilled to perfection.
Best Korean food we ever had, and it's a very close call, may have been at a little open air restaurant along a pathway up a mountain to see a Buddhist shrine in Taegu. They had some sort of green mountain vegetable that was kim cheed and a bit salty. That was about 35 years ago and my mouth still waters when I think of it.
One of my sister-in-laws made some kimchee out of some water cress that was incredible. She also made some kimchee out of pickling cucumbers that was one of the best kimchees I've had in my life. Sadly, that sister-in-law, who makes me call her noona, which means older sister to a male, now has dementia and can not long cook, not even boil water. This is a very deep loss for lots of reasons because we were extremely close. She and I are still close and she loves it when I tell her that she and I are a team. She also had a great sense of humor and would get me laughing rolling on the floor in stitches.
 
Lanny said:
Ah, the banjos.
And so, this is how it begins, again.
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Lanny, ever been to The Observatory? Nondescript, but I've heard they serve great food.
 
The restaurant I love and miss the most? Well, that's hard to say because there are so many that are virtually tied:
1. The Original Pancake House;
2. Buster's in Tigard;
3. Chang's Mongolian Grill, somewhere between Beaverton and Hillsboro just off Cornell near the Krispy Creme;
4. Jake's Famous Crawfish;
5. The Ringside on West Burnside, where they know steaks;
6.Southpark;
7. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, where they also know steaks.
 
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