The “Bird Dog” name doesn’t come from any of the conventional or urban slang definitions of that phrase, but rather, one would imagine, as an homage to the cafe’s signature dish moniker, a hot dog prepared in the way occasionally people are used to hearing a different cut of meat prepared in some parts of [...]
Been here before, but then, what Portlandian hasn’t? Waiting on a biz meeting in downtown, ambled through Pioneer Courthouse Square and grabbed a polish sausage to soothe the savage b(r)east prior to the meet. “It is what it is” people are fond of saying these days, and Jean’s certainly fits in that category. Value pricing, [...]
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No Comments »Not a review, per se, just a note that if you’ve been running all over the Portland metro area looking for a genuine Vienna Beef hot dog from Chicago, look no further than Jamie’s Chicago Dogs cart at 2nd and Main in downtown Hillsboro. As far as I know, Jamie is the only guy peddling [...]
Posted in Hot Dogs, Hot off the Grill Tags: Portland Hot dogs, vienna beef, Vienna Beef Hot Dogs No Comments »Now how I have missed this place? In the parking lot of Whole Foods on SE Burnside, Franks A Lot has been dishing up specialty dogs for years – long before the whole Portland food cart craze. We were in the neighborhood, biding our time waiting on Portland’s extraordinary garden consultant, Sara Pool, to plan [...]
Posted in Hot Dogs, Hot off the Grill, Miscellany, Sausage Tags: Hot Dogs, Portland Hot dogs, sausages No Comments »Superdog, I love these guys, and don’t get into one of their shops nearly often enough. I was wandering around downtown today looking for a corned beef sandwich, and came up bupkis, so I threw in the towel (used to soak up the mega gallons of rain that fell today), and popped into Superdog, the [...]
I love story tellers. I like to tell stories, too. I’m not so good at it. but I know someone who is. At the opposite end of the spectrum of my likes and dislikes are words used in cuisine reviews these days – like “fusion”, or “mash-up”. and this prejudice probably comes (as I [...]
I am cluttered with cliches today. Adrift with adages. Swimming with saws. Proffering proverbs. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs! (Yes, that makes no sense, I know). Renner’s Grill, in the Multnomah Village neighborhood of Portland, is a place “where everybody knows your name,” and “chief cook and bottle washer” Marshall, proprietor, makes sure of that, introducing [...]
Saturday was a “way too much” food day for the Burgerdogboy family, due to relatives being in town. I wasn’t able to document it all, a general ‘walking food coma’ overtook me at some point. Problem with eating so much yesterday, is I have to still deal with what’s on the plate for us today! [...]
Posted in Ham & Bacon, Hamburgers, Hot off the Grill, Sausage Tags: Cypress Grove Cheese, Humboldt Fog Cheese, Kincaids Steak House, PGE Park, Portland Beavers, Portland Cheeseburgers, portland hamburgers, Portland Hot dogs, Portland sushi, Revolving Sushi, Serratos, Sushi Land, Sushiland, Zenner's Meats, Zenner's Sausages No Comments »I was in the mood for hot dogs today, actually this thing started at about 3AM this morning, but I couldn’t motivate myself to get out of bed to pan up some weenies. So I went ahead and did it for breakfast at 730A, two Oscar Meyer all beef franks, buns, yellow mustard only. This [...]
Posted in Hot Dogs, Hot off the Grill, Sausage Tags: Beez Neez, Big Fat Wiener, Bro-Dogs, chicago hot dog, downtown Portland hot dogs, Jean's Hot Dogs, NW Burger Portland, oregon hot dogs, portland chili dogs, Portland Chinatown restaurants, Portland Food Carts, Portland Hot dogs, Smokin' Pig, Taste of Poland, Theo's Portland No Comments »Can a New Yawker successfully peddle a Chicago hot dog to Portlanders? One stop at the Fried Onion will make you coo an utter “oh, yes!” The Fried Onion is another newcomer on the scene, and in a slightly unlikely location, NW Raleigh between 22nd and 23rd. (Actually midway in the block on Raleigh). Affable [...]
