Restaurants
What is this?
A selection of restaurant recommendations, broken down by Country, State/Region, & City/Area. The order of the lists is somewhat organic.
I’ve been to all of the restraunts on this list and would go back to them. Generally speaking, I don’t go back to restraunts I didn’t like.
If you recommned something to me I’ll add it to a “To Try” section until I’ve visited and decided I like it.
This was formerly my Places to Eat gist.
USA, CA, San Francisco
Breakfast / Brunch / Bakery
- Plow : Breakfast/Brunch. Possibly the best all around Brunch in SF. My #1 breakfast spot in SF.
- Tartine Bakery : Try the croissants and the bread pudding.
- Vive la Tarte : Pastries and breakfast goods. My 2nd favorite SF breakfast spot.
- Neighbor Bakehouse: Great bakery.
Pizza / Italian
- Tony’s Pizza Nepolitano : Possibly the best pizza west of the hudson river.
- Del Popolo : Pizza!
- Little Star Pizza : Deep Dish with a cornmeal crust. Try the “off menu” Brass Monkey.
- Una Pizza Napoletana : Very good pizza
- Delfina : Italian / Pizza
- Flour & Water : Italian
- Zero Zero : Pizza / Pasta. Try the soft serve with olive oil and sea salt.
Misc Lunch / Dinner
- Mission Chinese
- Little Skillet : Chicken & Waffles
- Wise Sons Jewish Deli
- Dosa : South Indian
- State Bird Provisions : If you can, go here to eat.
- NOPA
- Yank Sing : Dim Sum
- Deli Board : Sandwiches
- Dumpling Time : Yes, it is dumpling time.
- Chez Maman : French
- Lers Ros : Good Thai food.
- Paprika SF: Hungarian & Czech Cuisine
Dessert
- Humphrey Slocombe : Ice Cream
- Bi-Rite Creamery
- Boba Guys
Coffee
- Sightglass
- Four Barrel
- Blue Bottle : Try ^^ first.
To Try
- Californios
- Cala
- Lord Stanley
- Frances
- Swenson’s (Sticky Chocolate Peanut Butter)
- Al’s Place
- Nopalito
- Neighbor
- Dynamo
- Mr. Holmes
- 20th Century Cafe (honey cake)
- The Mill
- Benjamin Cooper
- Bakehouse - Ginger Pull Aparts
- Bob’s on Polk for Classic Donuts
- Ma-ze-men
- https://eatfeastly.com/meals/d/19707528/japanese-omakase-a-local-tasting-from-land-and-43/
USA, CO, Denver
Breakfast / Brunch / Bakery
- Snooze: An AM Eatery : Breakfast
- Revelry Kitchen : Breakfast
- Denver Biscuit Company : Biscuits and Pizza
Misc Lunch / Dinner
- The Nickel : Local, farm-to-table
- Torchy’s Tacos : like in Austin
- Hop Alley : Chinese
Ice Cream
Coffee
USA, NY, New York
- Russ & Daughters : Jewish Cafe
- Clinton St. Baking Company : Breakfast/Brunch, known for pancakes
USA, OR, Portland
Breakfast / Brunch / Bakery
- Tasty-n-Alder : American “tapas”; personal favorite; also does dinner
- Broder : Various locations; Scandinavian
- Off the Waffle : Waffles
- Screen Door : Southern; Get the Fried Chicken; also does dinner
- Pop Bagel : Portland style pretzel bagel
- Twisted Croissant : Best Croissants in PDX
- Nuvrei : My favorite french pâtisserie in PDX
- Bernstein’s Bagels : Good bagels
- Spielman Bagels & Coffee : Good bagels
- Henry Higgins Boiled Bagels : Decent bagels
Food Halls / Food Carts
- Bundy’s Bagels : Arguably the best bagels in PDX
- Chicken and Guns : Latin style Oak & Mesquite Woodfired Chicken
- Puddle Town Bagels : Good bagels
- Pastrami Zombie : Pastrami sandwiches
- Pine Street Market : Indoor food hall
- Bless Your Heart Burger : Yummy burgers
- Marukin Ramen : Good Ramen
- OP Wurst : Good, local sausages
- Pollo Bravo : Inspired by Pollo Rico in Barcelona and the many rotisseries in Sevilla and Valencia
- WizBangBar : Salt-n-Straw Softserve
Pizza
- Lovely’s Fifty Fifty : Wood fired pizza & Ice cream. Great pizza, not quite neapolitan style
- Red Sauce : Really good pizza
- A Pizza Scholls : Some of the best pizza in Portland (Conneticut style)
- Life of Pie : Neapolitan style pizza
- The Star Portland : Cornmeal deep dish. PDX location of SF’s Little Star / Blueline
- Heart Pizza : Brought to you by founder of Blue Star Donuts.
- Ken’s Artisan Pizza : Solid brick oven pizza
- Dove Vivi : Pizza with a cornmeal crust
- Oven-n-Shaker : Pizza
- Sizzle Pie : A PDX Classic, vegan options
Burgers
- Little Big Burger : Small, but good hamburgers; truffle fries; various locations
- Bless Your Heart Burger : Good burgers
- Grain & Gristle : Tavern serving burgers
- Killer Burger : Greasy, but good burgers
- Dick’s Kitchen : Paleo / Burgers
- Burgerville : PNW burger chain
Lunch / Dinner
- Ava Genes : Italian
- Toro Bravo : Tapas; parent restaurant to Tasty-n-Alder
- Tasty-n-Daughters : Like Tasty-n-Alder, but more “taverny”
- Din Tai Fung : Taiwan style dumplings
- XLB : Chinese comfort food, specializing in it’s namesake, xiao long bao
- Ox : Argentinian Steak House
- Beast : Fancy, six course, prix-fixe menu
- Teoto : Arepas / Venezuelan
- Boxer Ramen
- Shigezo :Izakaya / Ramen
- Afuri : Japanese Ramen Chain
- Bamboo Sushi : Good, high end sushi
- Murata : Pretty good sushi
- Pok Pok : Thai street food, get the wings
- Kenny & Zuke’s : Deli, try the pastrami
- Lardo : burgers/sandwiches
- Olympia Provisions : meat/sausages
- Cafe Mingo : Italian
- Ned Ludd : Seasonal / NW / everything is cooked in a wood fired oven.
- Thai Bloom : Thai food
- Decarli : Italian
- Boriken : Puerto Rican
Bar / Drinks
- Multnomah Whiskey Library : Whiskey library, probably need a reservation
- Whisky Soda Lounge : if you just want the Pok Pok wings, other snacks & beer
Desserts
- Salt-n-Straw : Ice Cream
- Fifty Licks : Ice Cream
- What’s the Scoop : Ice Cream
- Blue Star Donuts : Don’t bother with Voodoo, go here.
- Ruby Jewel : Ice Cream, Salt & Straw / Fifty Licks are better, but Ruby Jewel is good
- Petunia’s : Vegan Pies and Pastries
Coffee
Misc Fast Food
- Café Yumm!
- Pizza Schmiza : better than other fast food pizza anyway
To Try
- Soup Time
- Cart Lab : Food Hall
- Renata : Italian
- Park Kitchen
- La Moule
- Le Pigeon
- Tidbit Food Truck : SE Division & 28th food trucks
- Tapalaya : Cajun/Creole
- Mucca osteria : Italian
- Levant : French
- Roost : New American Brunch
- Marrakesh : Moroccan
- Xico : Mexican
- Coquine
- Higgins
- Nostrana
- Aviary
- Biwa : Ramen/Japanese
- Kornblatz
- Il Gallo Nero (pearl district)
- The montage
- Hayden’s restaurant
- Luc lac
- Skamania lodge (brunch) (Stephenson, Washington)
- Virtuous Pie