Does anyone remember the “secret” restaurant in the Calle Real shopping center that was a French deli during the daytime, and at night became a wonderful little Korean restaurant, with a sweet grandmother patiently cooking and chopping all sorts of fragrant kimchi, soups, short ribs and plates of banchan? It was sometime in the late […]
Solid 4 stars for food, price, late open hours, and the extra star for really nice people working there.
My exceptional situation was seeking Korean food after 10 pm. Most other places around Convoy had closed. Props to Do Re Mi for the longer hours.
Props for endless banchan, about a dozen different dishes, with people asking […]
Our final stop on the mad dash through Alder’s cluster of food carts. All we could manage was some spicy ramyan noodles. And we were done. Ooof!
#1 Bento (Southwest, downtown)
10th & Alder
Portland, OR 97205
Possibly one of the most deceptive restaurants in the area.
In the front: florescent glowing food court filled with blue collar types eating fish and chips and looking a little unhappy at their state in life.
In the back: secret tatami room with Korean style sashimi to make you explode in delight!!
That’s what all […]
Heyo! Roadtrip to San Diego to attend the Comic Con and spend some time with good friends.
Back in my UCSD days, what can I say, I was just like any other undergrad: poor and culinarily indiscriminate. I had my fair share of late night Denny’s, Taco Bell, McDonalds and Ben&Jerry’s. It wasn’t until my stint […]
There is an assumption one can safely make before trying the food.
That is, given that this is Isla Vista, the priority of the food is to make one full as quickly, easily and cheaply as possible.
I set out to be proved wrong, and found my assumption to be true. Meaning - I was fed a […]
Banchan!!!
My friends and I, we admit it, we messed up.
Roadtripped to LA for Korean BBQ, and the place we picked said it offered lunch and dinner service, but it turned out lunch service was only on weekdays. This after going through LA traffic one of us described as “fucknuts.”
A nearby bakery pointed us […]
