For some reason, the New York Times is writing about happy hour food specials in Portland: Bar + Food | Portland’s Happiest Hours.
Are food specials at happy hour a special phenomena? I wouldn’t think so, but according the T Magazine article other towns — notably Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Charleston, S.C. — also serve cheap eats in the late afternoon, Portland has been doing it since the last recession. Huh.
Accanto, Clark Lewis, Wildwood, Olympic Provisions, and Nostrana are the formidable Portland restaurants that garner accolades for their fine happy hour food specials in the article.
If they were to have asked me, I would also have suggested:
Lincoln – for their $4 crispy fritter of the day, $5 greens and shaved fennel with almonds, and of course the $7 poutine, featuring fries, lamb gravy and cheese curds!
Papa Haydn (east) – $5 pork rillette, country pate, and their delicious poutine with hand-cut kennebeck fries, pulled chicken, thyme gravy and cheese curds!
(Don’t worry, the New York Times will come round to appreciating poutine eventually . . .)
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