Last photo dump from PDX and Willamette Valley.
Grounded Table McMinnville, OR
Roasted and Shaved Beet Salad: preserved lemon-magnolia vinaigrette, toasted hazelnut, sumac yogurt, oregon blue cheese
Summer Market Greens: garden radishes, pickled cherries, chive-mountain mint & banyuls vinaigrette
Alaskan Halibut: saffron risotto, fennel, shaved celery, carrot & watercress
Hayward Carlton, OR
Knee High
Chicken fried Tropea Onion, charred shishito aioli
Seared cabbage, green curry, smoked dates, chili
Eggplant, pepita-chile butter, cured egg yolk, confit potato, basil
Cavatelli, fried tofu, smoked tomato cream, coriander, fenugreek
Bruleed peach, peach granita, noyaux coconut cream, tequila tajin
Katchka
Sprats
Chicken Wings
Siberian Pelmeni
Shalom Y’all, round two
Chicken Shawarma: confit chicken thigh. savoy cabbage. pickled anaheim. sumac. tahina. pita
Hat Yai
Hat Yai for 2: half hat yai fried chicken, sticky rice, curry & roti, pickles
Very impressed with the Portland and Willamette scene. I could eat at all of these places, sans Davenport, regularly. Hat Yai is dangerously delicious.