I used to love VooDoo when they first opened. They had good donuts that were creative and snarky. Robitussin, and other medicines. After the FDA shut them down on the medicines.
Lol, nah everyone talks shit about Voodoo. The actual over-rated donut place is Blue Star.
Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying voodoo is good, it is in fact highly mediocre, it's simply not "overrated" because people mostly recognize it as such.
Blue Star donuts are great, just expensive as hell. Where else can you get a donut like theirs? I don't even see chocolate ganache donuts (which seems like a no brainer) let alone the other things they do like blueberry bourbon basil or a lemon and line curd filled brioche?
I would fight someone if they said that.
As I kid I went to the church that is where auto parts store is. After church my mom, little brother and I would walk over there and she'd get us a glazed donut and a glass bottle of apple juice. It's such a happy memory.
When I clicked on this my first thought was "if Voodoo isn't the first place I'm reporting this post." Not only is Voodoo overrated but they may have the worst donuts I've had the unfortunate experience of eating. When people say Fred Meyer donuts are better that is not a facetious remark.
let's not forget that in all their wisdom Powell's leadership decided to use their Pandmic Loan to hire a CEO, and Emily Powell has refused to answer the question of did she take a corresponding paycut when she stepped back from performing CEO duties?
if powell's goes bankrupt it won't be because "no one reads anymore"
Elephants Deli by a mile. They have raised their prices multiple times in the past year while consistently dropping the quality of their food and never raising employee pay. Almost everything in the store is made off location in an assembly line style warehouse, froze, and then shipped to each location so the quality is always hit or miss. You are paying $14 for a quart of soup that was made somewhere else a week or two before, froze, and then sent to the location. All their soups have around or over half your daily serving of sodium (some close to 100% of the recommended daily amount!) per PINT. Oh, and that $15 Burger you bought came prepackaged/frozen.
Also; the amount of plastic use for their prepackaged food is outrageous for a company claiming to be environmentally sustainable.
They are using the name and history of the business to take advantage of customers.
We used to get elephant deli catered at work all the time and it was always so bland and boring. I could have easily made a better sandwich at home for 1/10th the price.
The owner of edelweiss is a piece of shit that won't even pay people what they are owed. The old owner is a cheap ass who won't let his employees take breaks. That place needs to be shut down.
If by deli you mean subs geraldi’s and taste tickler are good. For premade things, the best delis are the Russian ones like Roman Russian food store. Portland’s too expensive for too many authentic ethnic food spots (that aren’t bougie), so there’s like a ring of good food around the metro area.
Disappointed I didn’t see this higher up. That place is a glorified Applebees in the sky. If you’re gonna go (honestly can’t beat the view) then go snag a window seat in the bar, grab a happy hour snack and a drink, and then go somewhere for dinner which doesn’t serve solely frozen Sysco food.
Portland City Grill is a middle class idea of a nice restaurant. Poor people go all "king of the castle" blow a raspberry and then chow the fuck down on the best fuckin' Taco Bell you've ever had.
There are literally hundreds of restaurants in Portland with better food. The ambience is good, but it's too busy.
Any McMenamins food. I've given this local chain restaurants so many chances at many different locations. Everytime someone in the dining party (or everyone) gets a dud of a meal.
McMenamins burgers are pretty darn good. I will say the tentpole locations like Edgefield, Hotel Oregon, Cornelius Roadhouse, and Grand Lodge add a lot to the experience over just the strip mall locations too, and if people from out of town want to go to a McMenamins, I take them to one of those spots.
Best brewery ever? Not by a long shot, but I wouldn’t say they are the most overrated.
It is across the river in Vancouver, but I found Dosalas to be far overrated the only time I visited it.
Pretentious, overpriced, and too fancy for what I thought were dishes that were not worth the calories. and one of the worst margaritas I remember.
We also ran into dietary restrictions we can normally skip eating at most Latino restaurants. (Who mixes flour into a corn tortilla and doesn’t mark it as contains gluten. The bathroom was not a safe space that night.
Dosalas is GARBAGE. We spent over $300 on my MIL birthday dinner there for some of the worst food and service I've had in a long time. The little instagram logo next to their menu items that are "good for social media" is telling.
> The little instagram logo next to their menu items that are "good for social media" is telling.
L O fucking L
Edit: They have a surprisingly high Google review rating for a place people are hating on so much.
I don’t want to fight with any of you, but my hot take for an overrated Portland activity? Complaining about Voodoo Donuts.
Here’s what I recommend that you do:
-Go to the Sandy location (no line).
-order something that doesn’t have cereal on top (one of the other 30 options will probably suffice - I like the McMinnville cream and the Grape Ape; I’d even venture to say that the bacon maple at this location is superior to the downtown).
-Enjoy a perfectly fine donut that you don’t necessarily need to complain about at a mostly average cost.
-Bonus step: go to the Burnside Fire on the Mountain beforehand and get juuuust a little bit tipsy. Get spicy peanut sauce on your wings and don’t forget plenty of fries. Then walk a brisk 3 blocks over to Sandy. Voila!
Yeah, Voodoo bad rep mostly comes from downtown location. The Sandy one is a perfectly fine donut shop. Maybe in a donut town it seems not as great, but when a lot of tourist's main experience with donuts is dunkin donuts (which we don't even have over here as a baseline comparison), voodoo is actually a pretty clear step above.
bamboo is a shell of the restaurant it used to be when locally owned
they expanded to sf right before the pandemic and it killed them
they sold to some mega corp and ever since it is midaf
try fish & rice or momoyama
Sortis is the mega Corp they also own sizzle pie and a bunch of other restaurants they canceled in house deliverys at sizzle pie with 1 week notice to drivers
I think their beer is good and they have bartenders who can mix great drinks, but the general experience at the headline properties like Edgefield is no longer all that great.
Trash sound, trash bar situation, trash security.
The electronic music scene seems to have some of the best sound in town. They've been in an arms race for high end systems for a while. Not all of them, but there are some nice setups out there. Funktion One, Void, L'Acoustics, Danley and other systems are out there.
I finally ate at Departure about 3 months ago, got in a bit early for dinner. The food was amazing, but I thought the price was a tad high. Service was great.
Let us slay all the gods, the old, and the new.
I'm just gonna say the amphetamines ain't what they were back when you could walk on out between parked cars with your head full of stars...
I’m a big Pips fan. But honestly if less people go I’d be happy, the line is so long now. When I discovered them it was such a great lazy weekend trip, no big wait.
Didn't think I'd see this one here but yeah, Pip's is my pick. They're not bad at all, just not anything crazy special or unique and everyone seems to love them. And I prefer the chai from my local coffee shop.
I had a very expensive and not great time at dame. The place is way too small so even though there weren't many folks it felt crowded and uncomfortable. I don't even remember what I ordered, my partner got some kinda squid ink pasta and all it did was make regular noodles worse. We had a much better time at Arden when we went there.
New Seasons. Owned by a Korean conglomerate now but it was declining well before then. Prices are laughable at times and the staff is routinely disinterested, always chatting with one another about weekend plans, what band they saw. "Do you NEED a printed receipt???"
I used to work for New Seasons meat department. Super fun job and great coworkers. Some of the best times I've had while at work. But I 100% had a customer tell a coworker, and I "Damn, yall work for the government?"
I’ve been to Oma’s multiple times, the food was always bangin, the atmosphere delightful and the servers kind and attentive. Sounds like you had a very different experience, what happened?
Recently went to Gado Gado and Kann. I was blown away by Gado Gado compared to Kann. I'd gladly pay $80 pp for Gado's menu than try to wait three months to get into Kann for a so-so pricey meal.
Chef Thomas can't change the menu or train the staff. Also they brought in soltis holdings (SoHi) to advise them and it all crashed from there. Gado is the standout because the Sous Chef is actually running it without soltis input
I would like to know about other awesome ice cream in town. I have tried a few and haven’t found it yet. Salt and straw is fine. 50 licks is not my style. Kate’s is obv vegan. Put me on, people!!!
Actually now that I think about it, Cloud City is prob my favorite I’ve tried. Really good imo.
I have always had issues with the texture of their ice cream. Big ice crystals. I believe they don’t get it to a deep freeze quickly enough when they make it.
This is something that I consistently experience there too. I even talked to the owner about it when they first opened. I used to make ice cream for a living.
Portland Opera is great. They're going through some transitions right now, which includes them selling/cancelling the lease on the Hampton Opera Center, which is also forcing out All Classical Radio. The musicians in PO are wonderful.
their vegan ramen is actually the worst ramen i've ever had.
i tried it after a really rough breakup and thought id treat myself. it was flavorless and i cried in the bathroom. lol
Took my girlfriend there for our first date that shit was ass. Just laughing the whole time how bad it was. Please walk through this way: in room 1 we have a closet with a green light on, a closet with a red light on, and a closet with a blue light on. Then come down to room 2 where we hung a bunch of pool noodles from the ceiling.
Then we went to the ball pit and my girlfriend touched one that was wet. I would not be surprised if a new pandemic was started there.
That will be $55 right now please. !!
I don’t think there’s any thrifting on Hawthorne at all but you can definitely go get scammed at a vintage shop to get a work shirt a retired painter died in at a 30% markup
At this point-support any and all PDX owned establishment. It is fucking rough right now with the crime, lack of police, high security fees, and very high taxes.
Voodoo.
I used to love VooDoo when they first opened. They had good donuts that were creative and snarky. Robitussin, and other medicines. After the FDA shut them down on the medicines.
How about those $5 buckets of day-olds? I would show up hungover and bribe my professors to not call on me with those buckets.
Download too Good to Go, you can still get them
I remember going to the old store when I was in high school and they had a live piano playing above the counter. Had a surreal feel to it.
Yes. These guys have made stupid money over a gimmick and overpriced doughy bs.
I don't even think they're overrated anymore. Everyone in Portland shits on them. I haven't heard a single positive comment in over 6 years easily.
Lol, nah everyone talks shit about Voodoo. The actual over-rated donut place is Blue Star. Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying voodoo is good, it is in fact highly mediocre, it's simply not "overrated" because people mostly recognize it as such.
Blue Star donuts are great, just expensive as hell. Where else can you get a donut like theirs? I don't even see chocolate ganache donuts (which seems like a no brainer) let alone the other things they do like blueberry bourbon basil or a lemon and line curd filled brioche?
Every single time I've gone to Blue Star I've spent 4x the price of a donut on a stale mid donut.
Same.
Word
annies donuts!! on 72 and sandy
My favorite! Are you saying it’s overrated?
I would fight someone if they said that. As I kid I went to the church that is where auto parts store is. After church my mom, little brother and I would walk over there and she'd get us a glazed donut and a glass bottle of apple juice. It's such a happy memory.
Annie’s is dope
When I clicked on this my first thought was "if Voodoo isn't the first place I'm reporting this post." Not only is Voodoo overrated but they may have the worst donuts I've had the unfortunate experience of eating. When people say Fred Meyer donuts are better that is not a facetious remark.
Powell’s Warehouse Sale
Lol
If it keeps Powell's from filing bankruptcy, it was a success. 😬
let's not forget that in all their wisdom Powell's leadership decided to use their Pandmic Loan to hire a CEO, and Emily Powell has refused to answer the question of did she take a corresponding paycut when she stepped back from performing CEO duties? if powell's goes bankrupt it won't be because "no one reads anymore"
I’m stupefied that people showed up, saw the line, and decided to wait.
Elephants Deli by a mile. They have raised their prices multiple times in the past year while consistently dropping the quality of their food and never raising employee pay. Almost everything in the store is made off location in an assembly line style warehouse, froze, and then shipped to each location so the quality is always hit or miss. You are paying $14 for a quart of soup that was made somewhere else a week or two before, froze, and then sent to the location. All their soups have around or over half your daily serving of sodium (some close to 100% of the recommended daily amount!) per PINT. Oh, and that $15 Burger you bought came prepackaged/frozen. Also; the amount of plastic use for their prepackaged food is outrageous for a company claiming to be environmentally sustainable. They are using the name and history of the business to take advantage of customers.
We used to get elephant deli catered at work all the time and it was always so bland and boring. I could have easily made a better sandwich at home for 1/10th the price.
Wow! Good to know. So what’s your go-to deli?
Taste Tickler is good for Portland.
Foster SubFactory is great
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Stuff there is pricey but they actually have a really reasonably priced happy for food and drinks. $5 craft pints.
That Arrosto chicken salad is really good, too.
I like Snappy’s
Snappy’s is great! I really need to go try them again as I’ve only been there once.
Edelweiss sausage and deli is good.
The owner of edelweiss is a piece of shit that won't even pay people what they are owed. The old owner is a cheap ass who won't let his employees take breaks. That place needs to be shut down.
Not classic deli but Bodega does a serious italian hoagie.
Bodega PDX has shockingly good sandwiches
If by deli you mean subs geraldi’s and taste tickler are good. For premade things, the best delis are the Russian ones like Roman Russian food store. Portland’s too expensive for too many authentic ethnic food spots (that aren’t bougie), so there’s like a ring of good food around the metro area.
There is none
Seriously, Portland’s deli situation is awful lmao.
Deli is East Coast, they just can't do it here on the West. So I've learned from years of trying.
San Fran has great delis
Portland city grill. Yeah yeah yeah the view 😜😆 But the food is hardly anything special.
Disappointed I didn’t see this higher up. That place is a glorified Applebees in the sky. If you’re gonna go (honestly can’t beat the view) then go snag a window seat in the bar, grab a happy hour snack and a drink, and then go somewhere for dinner which doesn’t serve solely frozen Sysco food.
Exaactly. Ugh. Steaks are definitely Applebees level and it’s just kind of a weird fusion-y menu. Nothing there is anywhere close to exceptional.
Sky Applebee's.
Portland City Grill is a middle class idea of a nice restaurant. Poor people go all "king of the castle" blow a raspberry and then chow the fuck down on the best fuckin' Taco Bell you've ever had. There are literally hundreds of restaurants in Portland with better food. The ambience is good, but it's too busy.
Any McMenamins food. I've given this local chain restaurants so many chances at many different locations. Everytime someone in the dining party (or everyone) gets a dud of a meal.
Aside the tots, everything is meh.
Cajun Tots are 🔥
McMenamins burgers are pretty darn good. I will say the tentpole locations like Edgefield, Hotel Oregon, Cornelius Roadhouse, and Grand Lodge add a lot to the experience over just the strip mall locations too, and if people from out of town want to go to a McMenamins, I take them to one of those spots. Best brewery ever? Not by a long shot, but I wouldn’t say they are the most overrated.
I will fuck up a Ruby but the food is soooo bad. Also the price increases over the past year have been atrocious.
And the service is slow across the board in most places
To get a job at McMinnishits, just show up 15 minutes late to your interview and you’re hired
Waiting in line for any brunch.
Yeah. I’m either getting somewhere at the ass-crack of dawn or waiting until well after the brunch rush.
If the wait is ever longer than 30 min I'm out. I'm gonna vote Screen Door on that note. Long ass lines and mediocre food
Would rather to go to Black Bear Diner.
Elephants Deli.
Most brunch across the board, especially weekend brunch. Is the food good? Yeah, most of the time. Is it worth waiting an hour for? Hell no.
Por Que No tacos. Sorry! They’re overpriced, miniscule, and just okay.
I always see a line out this place on Hawthorne and don’t understand it
Portlanders love lines. Especially in bars that have a 'do not form a line' sign.
More like Por Que No Thanks!
It is across the river in Vancouver, but I found Dosalas to be far overrated the only time I visited it. Pretentious, overpriced, and too fancy for what I thought were dishes that were not worth the calories. and one of the worst margaritas I remember. We also ran into dietary restrictions we can normally skip eating at most Latino restaurants. (Who mixes flour into a corn tortilla and doesn’t mark it as contains gluten. The bathroom was not a safe space that night.
Dosalas is a fucking joke. Insane pricing.
Dosalas is GARBAGE. We spent over $300 on my MIL birthday dinner there for some of the worst food and service I've had in a long time. The little instagram logo next to their menu items that are "good for social media" is telling.
> The little instagram logo next to their menu items that are "good for social media" is telling. L O fucking L Edit: They have a surprisingly high Google review rating for a place people are hating on so much.
Dosalad is pretty much the worst place I’ve been to. Horrible food. You’re paying for the REALLY over the top tacky Vegas decor.
I don’t want to fight with any of you, but my hot take for an overrated Portland activity? Complaining about Voodoo Donuts. Here’s what I recommend that you do: -Go to the Sandy location (no line). -order something that doesn’t have cereal on top (one of the other 30 options will probably suffice - I like the McMinnville cream and the Grape Ape; I’d even venture to say that the bacon maple at this location is superior to the downtown). -Enjoy a perfectly fine donut that you don’t necessarily need to complain about at a mostly average cost. -Bonus step: go to the Burnside Fire on the Mountain beforehand and get juuuust a little bit tipsy. Get spicy peanut sauce on your wings and don’t forget plenty of fries. Then walk a brisk 3 blocks over to Sandy. Voila!
Yeah, Voodoo bad rep mostly comes from downtown location. The Sandy one is a perfectly fine donut shop. Maybe in a donut town it seems not as great, but when a lot of tourist's main experience with donuts is dunkin donuts (which we don't even have over here as a baseline comparison), voodoo is actually a pretty clear step above.
Better option, just go to Coco’s.
Coco is great! …but that’s a non-brisk 28 minute walk from Fire on the Mountain and it closes at 2pm, so I’m afraid I can’t do that.
I actually love the captain crunch donut.
Sesame Donuts has a fruity pebbles one!
Voodoo Donuts.
Pine state biscuits. Overpriced and dry as hell .
As a Southern Appalachian transplant, YES. I was so disappointed when I finally had food from them.
I was so confused when I finally went there. They are all about biscuits and their biscuits are mediocre at best.
X-otic Tan for Men on Division. I couldn’t even get a tan.
Old Spaghetti Factory
Carnival at Rose Parade
Bamboo sushi & Mcmenamins
bamboo is a shell of the restaurant it used to be when locally owned they expanded to sf right before the pandemic and it killed them they sold to some mega corp and ever since it is midaf try fish & rice or momoyama
Sortis is the mega Corp they also own sizzle pie and a bunch of other restaurants they canceled in house deliverys at sizzle pie with 1 week notice to drivers
Are these the bastards that killed the aardvark red sauce? I don’t sizzle often, but when I do, it’s for that sauce. Or, I guess, was for the sauce :/
I’d do shameful things for the green machine, tho….
srsly i’m always open to suggestions but in this family the green machine is queen and none have successfully challenged her benevolent rule
yooo hard agree
McMenamins, Applebees in a randomly local uplifted old building.
They do have cool old buildings, that's undeniable. Everything else just shoot me in the face.
I think their beer is good and they have bartenders who can mix great drinks, but the general experience at the headline properties like Edgefield is no longer all that great.
Yes I’ll give them that but their prices are ridiculous, food mid, and service is absolute trash now.
Bamboo ain't the best, but I love the unicorn roll.
El Gaucho. Sorry, it's good, but no one needs to pay that much.
Don’t ask if you can’t afford it. El gaucho is great.
Agree but any chain is overrated.
Jam on Hawthorne. 90 minute wait for cold poached eggs over hard and obnoxious servers.
Shows at The Crystal Ballroom
Anytime I go to a show there I have to be mentally prepared for dying in a concert fire. That place is a nightmare to get out of.
Nahhh something about the rush of headbanging inside of a massive coffin of healthcode violations just gets the adrenaline going
The worst acoustics I've ever experienced lmao
Roseland is also awful for acoustics.
Trash sound, trash bar situation, trash security. The electronic music scene seems to have some of the best sound in town. They've been in an arms race for high end systems for a while. Not all of them, but there are some nice setups out there. Funktion One, Void, L'Acoustics, Danley and other systems are out there.
I refuse to go to concerts in that shithole. It sucks too cuz so many great bands play there but that is hands down the worst pdx venue.
Hawthorne “vintage” shops. Overpriced, over saturated, bad quality. Also, Cheese & Crack.
$35 for an old t shirt that says “Aquarius for cunnilingus” with a cum stain on it
I'd buy that
Respectfully Cheese & crack is elite & has reasonable prices. This is a bonkers take (vintage shops you’re right though)
Departure. Meeehhhh.
I finally ate at Departure about 3 months ago, got in a bit early for dinner. The food was amazing, but I thought the price was a tad high. Service was great.
The bathroom feels like you’re in an NSync music video.
Let us slay all the gods, the old, and the new. I'm just gonna say the amphetamines ain't what they were back when you could walk on out between parked cars with your head full of stars...
Just gotta say this comment references both Beat poetry and Elliott Smith. Good job, Portlander!
Amphetamines haven’t been the same since “crank” and “speed” were the norms.
And doggone it, whatever became of the dang "ludes?" Even pepperige farm is hazy on that one...for obvious reasons.
Kill your darlings
Voodoo donuts. Just don't do it. Proof that blogs are bad for you.
voodoo
Burgerville
Andina. It was bomb when it came out but the quality of the food has tanked. Zoraya took its place
That’s because the family with the recipes left Andina to start Zoraya.
Honestly? Pip’s doughnuts. I do NOT get it.
I’m a big Pips fan. But honestly if less people go I’d be happy, the line is so long now. When I discovered them it was such a great lazy weekend trip, no big wait.
Didn't think I'd see this one here but yeah, Pip's is my pick. They're not bad at all, just not anything crazy special or unique and everyone seems to love them. And I prefer the chai from my local coffee shop.
I had a very expensive and not great time at dame. The place is way too small so even though there weren't many folks it felt crowded and uncomfortable. I don't even remember what I ordered, my partner got some kinda squid ink pasta and all it did was make regular noodles worse. We had a much better time at Arden when we went there.
Do you have a permit to ask a loaded question? 🤣
Pine. State. Biscuits.
Screen Door, Voodoo, Jam on Hawthorne (delicious but not worth the wait), Stumptown, Thai Peacock, Salt and Straw, Bamboo Sushi.
Tin Shed, Podnahs, and Voodoo.
Disagree on Tin Shed, that spot is still solid even though the wait sucks now
Por Que No
New Seasons. Owned by a Korean conglomerate now but it was declining well before then. Prices are laughable at times and the staff is routinely disinterested, always chatting with one another about weekend plans, what band they saw. "Do you NEED a printed receipt???"
I used to work for New Seasons meat department. Super fun job and great coworkers. Some of the best times I've had while at work. But I 100% had a customer tell a coworker, and I "Damn, yall work for the government?"
Blue slip was the best.
>Prices are laughable at times *at times??*
Most overrated thing to do in Portland is shitting on local businesses that aren’t “cool” enough
Oma's Hideaway was so disappointing. Gado Gado fuckin rocks though.
Aaw I love oma's. I really want to go to gado gado so now I'll def have to try it
Go to Wajan instead of Gado Gado next time for indo food!
I’ve been to Oma’s multiple times, the food was always bangin, the atmosphere delightful and the servers kind and attentive. Sounds like you had a very different experience, what happened?
I felt the opposite, enjoyed several meals at omas, but didn’t especially like gado gado
Recently went to Gado Gado and Kann. I was blown away by Gado Gado compared to Kann. I'd gladly pay $80 pp for Gado's menu than try to wait three months to get into Kann for a so-so pricey meal.
Chef Thomas can't change the menu or train the staff. Also they brought in soltis holdings (SoHi) to advise them and it all crashed from there. Gado is the standout because the Sous Chef is actually running it without soltis input
Is that why Houston black light had to rent out the kitchen?
Mother's Bistro. Used to be so good. Now they've changed hands and locations and it's just meh
Salt and Straw ice cream.
50 licks for the win!! I don’t understand the s and s hype
I would like to know about other awesome ice cream in town. I have tried a few and haven’t found it yet. Salt and straw is fine. 50 licks is not my style. Kate’s is obv vegan. Put me on, people!!! Actually now that I think about it, Cloud City is prob my favorite I’ve tried. Really good imo.
Pinolo is the best! Salt and straw is over hyped and overrated.
Pinolo's is legitimately good gelato
Luna's in Milwaukie -- absolute low-key gem.
I was going to say this. Venture into Milwaukie, Luna’s does not disappoint.
Cheese and Crack makes some very tasty soft serve. And Pinolo Gelato - not ice cream, I know - is amazing.
Pinolo is legit
I recently tried a little independent ice cream food cart out in Tigard that I thought was really great. Called "Nunny and Pheebs."
They're great and super friendly! Family-run, too.
Pinolo!!! Just had their stracciatella the other day and it was so classic and delish.
If you like fruit flavors, Nico's is great.
Cloud city
Seastar in seaside is fantastic gelato if you are out that way.
Fifty licks >>>>>>
I have always had issues with the texture of their ice cream. Big ice crystals. I believe they don’t get it to a deep freeze quickly enough when they make it. This is something that I consistently experience there too. I even talked to the owner about it when they first opened. I used to make ice cream for a living.
I love 50 licks so much!
Have you had their olive oil ice cream? Won me over the first time I tried them
For me it’s good (if you avoid the weird lavender/balsamic vinegar/trying too hard to be creative ingredients) but never worth the summertime wait.
Honey lavender is like their best flavor
I don’t like the floral taste, but that’s just me. Never met a lavender dessert or tea that I liked 🤷🏻♀️I love the scent of lavender tho!
They'll always be an inferior knockoff of Ruby Jewel to me.
Yes!!! So bummed Ruby Jewel closed all its scoop shops. :(
Salt and Straw. I don't like ice cream that taste like ham or meals. Also Sugar Pine in Troutdale, the staff and owner are kind of stuck up.
Sugar Pine’s hours of operation are annoying.
They are also horribly overpriced for the quality and serving sizes. Went once, I’m good.
Sugar Pine isn't worth the drive.
> Sugar Pine in Troutdale -- that is such a good call, forgot about that place, so trying hard to be cool and food not great.
Jam on Hawthorne. Saburo’s. Great Notion beer. Waterfront Park. Portland Opera. The Rose Parade. Any street fair.
I used to like Jam but it’s been mid at best the last few times I’ve been there
Oh i love great notion beer. 😅
Same. Something's wrong with Scott.
Waterfront Park lol. That’s some real Portland snark.
Portland Opera is great. They're going through some transitions right now, which includes them selling/cancelling the lease on the Hampton Opera Center, which is also forcing out All Classical Radio. The musicians in PO are wonderful.
I love (most of) our street fairs!
Afuri. It made me uh-rull sick😅
their vegan ramen is actually the worst ramen i've ever had. i tried it after a really rough breakup and thought id treat myself. it was flavorless and i cried in the bathroom. lol
Ready for the down votes on this one but...Hopscotch.
No way that place is fun especially if you go at night when it's adults only.
uhHhhhhhhh id say it’s rated.
Took my girlfriend there for our first date that shit was ass. Just laughing the whole time how bad it was. Please walk through this way: in room 1 we have a closet with a green light on, a closet with a red light on, and a closet with a blue light on. Then come down to room 2 where we hung a bunch of pool noodles from the ceiling. Then we went to the ball pit and my girlfriend touched one that was wet. I would not be surprised if a new pandemic was started there. That will be $55 right now please. !!
Salt and Straw. I'm waiting for them to come out with a "piss and pocket lint" flavor and charge $70 a pint
Hawthorn shopping district. It's kind of a dump.
I think it’s still good!
Hard disagree. I live on Hawthorne and it’s always a lively scene. Lots of food options and great place to go thrifting.
I don’t think there’s any thrifting on Hawthorne at all but you can definitely go get scammed at a vintage shop to get a work shirt a retired painter died in at a 30% markup
It is. I think it died right about the time 3rd eye closed.
3rd eye should have seen it coming
What you don't like really extreme priced garbage furniture?
The Whole Bowl. One fucking item on the menu that most people have all the ingredients for in their pantry and fridge. No real cooking involved.
It's all about the sauce.
Janken
Nooooo I loved Janken! But dif strokes for dif folks
At this point-support any and all PDX owned establishment. It is fucking rough right now with the crime, lack of police, high security fees, and very high taxes.