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Bhuna Has Good Karma And Even Better Food
The last time TeamMago sampled chef Deepak Kaul's "Indian soul food" it was a Mondays-only gig at Culmination Brewing. We were impressed then, but Bhuna's digs on 21st Ave. NW and a dedicated kitchen have ironed out most of the kinks we detected at the pop-up.
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An Homage to Ataula
There is a lot of great Spanish cuisine in Portland, but there is only one Ataula. This is where you want to go for authentic Catalan paella and tapas.
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Ned Ludd: Diners of the World Unite! All you have to lose is your Technology
Ned Ludd's in NE Portland has successfully merged Luddite skepticism of technical progress, especially in the food industry, with an old school approach to gastronomy that relies on fire and time, the immutables of great rustic cuisine. Go early and go often.
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Fried Egg I’m in Love (Again)
We are unreconstructed and unapologetic egg sluts at MagoGuide and have been nursing a serious Fried Egg I'm in Love jones since they shuttered their iconic SE Hawthorne food cart and moved to a store front three blocks east. We love the new location and the food is better than ever.
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Le Pigeon – Top Bird in Rucker’s Culinary Aviary
Chef Rucker's proclivity for risk has made his food hostage to a culinary VIX of sorts, where the demands of three very popular restaurants and a "move fast and break things" approach to culinary experimentation results in Le Pigeon falling short of MagoGuide's coveted five rostra rating. But in the name of thoroughness, we'll happily keep going back to check.
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Outside Avenue 23 Tap and Table

Avenue 23 Tap and Table

Ankeny Tap and Table’s take over of the defunct Lompoc Tavern on Portland’s NW 23rd Avenue is something of a

Bhuna

We liked everything that we saw and ate at Bhuna. Their new brick and mortar location is somewhere you want

Holman’s Bar and Grill

If indeed the wages of sin are death, then Holman’s Funeral Home made an excellent upstream investment with its eponymous

Outside Stammtisch

Stammtisch

Along with its sister restaurant Prost, Stammtisch is considered the best German restaurant in the City of Roses. There is

Master Kong

Master Kong is a bare bones but tidy little spot on outer Division that is the darling of our competitors,

Dumplings in hot oil

Stickers Asian Cafe

Stickers is a nice small pan-Asian place in Sellwood that is often uncrowded but which serves very good VFM Asian

Cubano sandwich

Ground Breaker Brewing and Gastropub

Ground Breaker is a dedicated gluten free brewery and restaurant. They brew some very tasty gf beer at Ground Breaker

Inside Belmont Station

Belmont Station

Belmont Station has the chutzpa to self-designate as “Portland’s premier beer destination”. That is arguable, but it is probably true

Obstructed view from the chefs counter

Ned Ludd

Eating at Ned Ludd is like eating in an unfinished cabin somewhere in the PNW that got turned into a

Hamburger with fries

Mulligan’s

Local knowledge requires a lot of locals. Team Mago has a local gastro pub, local tap room, local wine bar,