Portland: Breakfast-Hound’s Paradise

When we wrote a Roadfood.com review of Portland, OR’s Bijou Cafe we called the city a “breakfast-hound’s paradise.”  Little did we then know!  Thank you to Portlander and local Roadfood maven mr chips for cluing us in to the new article in Portland Monthly, called B… Is for Bacon.  This is a “guide to Portland’s best waffles, eggs, biscuits, hash, coffee, pancakes, bagels, omelets, pastries, doughnuts, dim sum, and more”; 64 of Portland’s finest breakfast spots are listed.

This indispensible guide to morning dining in Portland covers Roadfood.com favorites like the Bijou Cafe (that’s Bijou’s roast beef hash pictured above) and Annie’s Donut Shop (Roadfood.com review), and Bread and Ink Cafe (Roadfood.com review), Fuller’s Coffee Shop (Roadfood.com review), and Original Pancake House (Roadfood.com review).  Plus 59 more!  Some that jump out at us: Podnah’s Pit for “slow-smoked brisket . . . sliced and fanned out on a warm plate along with two eggs . . . and fried potatoes. On the side: one of the flakiest biscuits this side of SE Belmont Street.” Or chilaquiles at Autentica (“crisp corn tortillas are cut into neat little triangles that soak up a spicy guajillo chile sauce. Beside them sit two over-easy eggs, their runny yolks just begging to be smeared over the pile of salty-sweet refried black beans that come on the side”).  So much to try… lucky you, mr chips!