Downtown Food Guide
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I'm willing to impart everything I know about finding the best food, and the best deals in beautiful downtown Portland. Everything from fancy sitdown, to cart life. This post has it all.
HONKIN HUGE
Location: Pioneer Square
This place sucks. Typical American style quantity over quality, honkin' Huge offers a giant burrito that you have to eat with a fork because it doesn't wrap up right, and is made with diced tomatoes (not even salsa), canned beans, and gubmint cheese.
Item to get: Nothing.
EN FUEGO'S
PACO'S TACOS
Item to get:
Carne Asada Burrito. Except I've ordered the Carne Asada Burrito before and gotten 4 tacos.
Mistake aside, they were great tacos.
MEXICAN FOOD
Location: Just a little North of Paco's
This cart has the best art.
Item to get: Go to Paco's instead. The Carne Asada Burrito here is the exact same quality as paco's, but costs 5 bucks compared to 4.50. And when you pay 4.50 for lunch, and they try to give you change, it's easy to look like a big man and just wave at them to throw the change in the tip jar. be a big man.
KING BURRITO
Eccoli Row on the Bus mall
Item to get:
Carne Asada Burrito, make sure you pay extra so you get to see th eold hispanic man who looks like a cross between William Holden and Slim Whitman make change with his paddle like hand that only has 3 fingers.
LOS LOCOS BURRITOS
Location: almost exactly right next to King Burrito, only an ATM separates them.
Their version of rice is cooked into paste, somewhere between the consistency of wall paper paste and instant oatmeal when you forget to add a little extra water and cook it in the microwave.
Item to get:
Nothing. I did once get a chicken mole burrito without cheese and was able to choke it down.
Let birdflag blog help you fill your belly!
I'm willing to impart everything I know about finding the best food, and the best deals in beautiful downtown Portland. Everything from fancy sitdown, to cart life. This post has it all.
HONKIN HUGELocation: Pioneer Square
This place sucks. Typical American style quantity over quality, honkin' Huge offers a giant burrito that you have to eat with a fork because it doesn't wrap up right, and is made with diced tomatoes (not even salsa), canned beans, and gubmint cheese.
Item to get: Nothing.
EN FUEGO'SLocation: SW corner of Pioneer Courthouse
The drummer from Stars of Track and Field used to work here and he made the best burrito downtown. Now it's some spacy chick, but she's still ok.
Item to get: Small chicken w/ yogurt, no salsa and tapatio/sweet chili in a whole wheat tortilla.
PACO'S TACOSLocation: 3rd and Alder
Weird thing here, is the red and green salsas are a little different than anywhere else, and the rice has canned peas in it. It's really tasty, but if you look at it too much it looks like a really bad drunk dookie in a tortilla.
Item to get:
Carne Asada Burrito. Except I've ordered the Carne Asada Burrito before and gotten 4 tacos.
Mistake aside, they were great tacos.
MEXICAN FOODLocation: Just a little North of Paco's
This cart has the best art.
Item to get: Go to Paco's instead. The Carne Asada Burrito here is the exact same quality as paco's, but costs 5 bucks compared to 4.50. And when you pay 4.50 for lunch, and they try to give you change, it's easy to look like a big man and just wave at them to throw the change in the tip jar. be a big man.
TAQUERIA CHARLIE VILLANUEVA
Location: something like 4th and oak. But it's not. I forget exactly where it is. It's right by Ruth's Chri's S'teak Hou'se
The strong classic burrito made by Mexicans*, for Mexicans**. Guy has the best moustache of any cart owner, and always calls you amigo.
* probably from Honduras.
**white people.
Item to get: Carne Asada Burrito
KING BURRITOEccoli Row on the Bus mall
Item to get:
Carne Asada Burrito, make sure you pay extra so you get to see th eold hispanic man who looks like a cross between William Holden and Slim Whitman make change with his paddle like hand that only has 3 fingers.
LOS LOCOS BURRITOSLocation: almost exactly right next to King Burrito, only an ATM separates them.
Their version of rice is cooked into paste, somewhere between the consistency of wall paper paste and instant oatmeal when you forget to add a little extra water and cook it in the microwave.
Item to get:
Nothing. I did once get a chicken mole burrito without cheese and was able to choke it down.
Labels: everything is food
posted by The Cruise at 2:25 PM
2 Comments:
So have you stopped patrolling cartopolis II on 9th and Alder around noon everyday? Amazing how hard it is to hide with camo pants in an urban environment, huh?
Addendum:
We would like to correct the error that "paco's tacos" is really called "tito's burritos".
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