Food and Drink Establishments

Usually when we re-visit a place we discover that it has 'slipped' in our minds. In other words, the restaurants aren't as good, etc. We usually chalk it up to being jaded. And, given that premise, it's hard to think that we are, for some reason, less jaded on this trip to Portland. SO, we constantly marvel at how great the restaurants and beer have gotten. Before (last trip probably 4 years ago), they were OK, meaning good enough, but not something to write about.

NOW, on this trip, we've found any number of extraordinary restaurants (and fantastic brewers). Maxine put a lot of effort into making sure we went to a bunch of them, but even with a month, we never made it to some. And, some that we did make it to, we really wish we had the time to re-visit before we leave back for LA. Next trip...

Having said all that, I did want to say that I rarely found any extraordinary desserts (ones that matched the superlative quality of food or beer). Not sure if that suggests an opportunity for someone here, but at least I suspect it is the next frontier (or I hope it is anyway!)

Portland very much is a first class food city!!!