Food "On the Road"

Italian Restaurant dining tonight...
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It's well known that Italians keep their best produce within their own borders which, if you're there is...great. So this may be from a standard airport lounge over there but still miles better than anything similar where I am.
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Would you be able and willing to share the photo that became your user-member photo(avatar)?
I'd like to see it without the colorful cameraderie camera image being in the way.
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That area of Portland has some excellent ethnic restaurants. Somewhere near there (closer to 81st on Stark maybe iirc) is/was a great Lebanese restaurant - well worth exploring if you are there again.
For those interested and visiting PDX or Portland, this area also boasts one of the most delicious Chinese-Thai restaurants in Oregon and possibly in the United States-- "Yaowarat" - which is on SE Stark. Their cuisine was developed in Bangkok and is more or less a creative blending of Bangkok Chinese and Thai dishes - and their dishes and food are, in a word, sumptuous. My former favorite Asian restaurant in Portland was Andy Ricker's legendary PokPok (which was shut down during Covid, and which foodies still discuss nostalgically) - but Yaowarat is a more-than-worthy addition to the scene.

Here's their website, for those interested--

https://www.yaowaratpdx.com/menus
 
Before he was online so the camera image was over it.
Now he is not online and you (@John King ) gave me a hint....so now I can make more sense of it. Thanks!
One of my daughters declared/ demanded when she was little "I want a dimple!" and it was very annoying to her that I had one but she didn't so, the pic's a bit of a gentle tease aimed at her direction. All organised by her brother and sister. Siblings, eh.
 
For those interested and visiting PDX or Portland, this area also boasts one of the most delicious Chinese-Thai restaurants in Oregon and possibly in the United States-- "Yaowarat" - which is on SE Stark. Their cuisine was developed in Bangkok and is more or less a creative blending of Bangkok Chinese and Thai dishes - and their dishes and food are, in a word, sumptuous. My former favorite Asian restaurant in Portland was Andy Ricker's legendary PokPok (which was shut down during Covid, and which foodies still discuss nostalgically) - but Yaowarat is a more-than-worthy addition to the scene.

Here's their website, for those interested--

https://www.yaowaratpdx.com/menus

Interesting that you liked Pok Pok. I had read about it and stopped by for a meal. The service was awful and the meal was microwaved leftovers. I never went back, of course. I will try Yaowarat and hope my luck is better than with Pok Pok. I may even drive up from the coast just to try it.

OK, it's in my WAZE. That's step one. ;o)
 
I went to pok pok once, when it just started and I remember it as nice, but nothing extraordinary. Maybe I am too simple to discern what made it special.

My most memorable meals are often in a hole in the wall somewhere serving some sort of street food.
 
I went to pok pok once, when it just started and I remember it as nice, but nothing extraordinary. Maybe I am too simple to discern what made it special.

My most memorable meals are often in a hole in the wall somewhere serving some sort of street food.

I think a lot of people read the reviews and then eat with their ears. I like the street food joints, too. I had a friend whose family had restaurants in HK and who really knew food and the restaurants. Her advice to me was that you can't eat the decorations. I am there for the food not for entertainment. So long as the place is clean I will try it.

A funky Korean joint was recommended to me by my Korean-American eye doctor who understood I was looking for food not decorations. It is on the second floor in the back of a big Korean grocery store. The food is flat out killer good. That's what I'm talking about. ;o) It is Always Spring (https://www.alwaysspringrestaurant.com/) in Beaverton, OR. Really good, not fancy, can be very busy.

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Today we ended up, rather by accident, at Pizzeria Bianco - a pizzeria featured in the Netflix series "Chef's Table: Pizza" and often referred to as the best pizzeria in the USA.


The owner, Chris Bianco, now owns several restaurants around Phoenix, as well as in LA, but this one is his original pizzeria.

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There are normally long lines for this famous restaurant, but it was the middle of a Wednesday afternoon and it was less than half full. So we decided to go in for an early dinner.

Two of us shared a salade mistra, a margherita pizza (we added wood-grilled mushrooms), a Peroni, and their famous bread with olive oil. The meal was excellent.

When the pizza arrived, I started to style the table for a few food shots that would bring out the ambiance and rusticity of the venue. But since we were seated in the center of the small but bustling dining room, I decided to settle for a simple snap.My one image of the salad decided to be blurry, so I guess I'll need to return to photograph that. Oh well, I suppose I can suffer through another meal here. (Just kidding, it was an awesome experience!)

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Today we ended up, rather by accident, at Pizzeria Bianco - a pizzeria featured in the Netflix series "Chef's Table: Pizza" and often referred to as the best pizzeria in the USA.


The owner, Chris Bianco, now owns several restaurants around Phoenix, as well as in LA, but this one is his original pizzeria.

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There are normally long lines for this famous restaurant, but it was the middle of a Wednesday afternoon and it was less than half full. So we decided to go in for an early dinner.

Two of us shared a salade mistra, a margherita pizza (we added wood-grilled mushrooms), a Peroni, and their famous bread with olive oil. The meal was excellent.

When the pizza arrived, I started to style the table for a few food shots that would bring out the ambiance and rusticity of the venue. But since we were seated in the center of the small but bustling dining room, I decided to settle for a simple snap.My one image of the salad decided to be blurry, so I guess I'll need to return to photograph that. Oh well, I suppose I can suffer through another meal here. (Just kidding, it was an awesome experience!)

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It looks delicious, Mark!
 
Did you ever try the various Asian eateries that have opened in Edison NJ in the last 5 or so years? If you are ever in this area you might want to 😉

I left Jersey in '58 and CT in '82 for CA. So no, I have not tried the new Asian fare. As a kid we had the Shanghai, one flight up in an old rickety wooden building. The Chicken Chow Mein was mostly onions and celery in chicken broth and corn starch with some strips of chicken across it and I would give a lot for a plate of it now. We later got the Lychee, a fancier place on Front Street with better food and the "One from Column A and two from Column B" routine. And I would give a lot for a bowl of their Won Ton soup right now. The tastes of our childhood. Now I live in NW Oregon. So as good as the Edison Asian food is I will have to content myself with what is out here in Seaside (Chinese) and PDX (all Asian foods). Yamcha below.

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