The Good Food Places List
In every place I've lived or been I've found the most wonderful and irreplacable food. These are the resturants and the cities they live in. (The ones I can't find the name of or whatnot are in brackets...)
Portland | White Rock | Sidney | Victoria | San Francisco | Port Townsend | Arcata San Diego | Northampton | New York | Chicago |
Cleveland | Barcelona | Not in any city
---------- Portland, Or top
- Mongolian Grill
- Mongolian beef - asemble your own delicious meal
- Alexis
- Greek - (where I always have a job)
- Don Pedro's
-
Mexican - by far the greatest tacos
- Pho Hung | 4717 SE Powell Blvd - 503.775.3170
- Vietnamese beef noodle soup - the best restaurant ever
- Muchas Gracias
- Mexican - unequaled burritos, order without rice and beans
---------- White Rock, BC top
- Hearts Cafe (unsure of name)
- Cafe fare - complex sandwiches and good soup
- Pick N' Chews
- Chinese - wonderful quick customizable lunch
- Rodeo Burger
-
Burgers - they take their burgers seriously
- [This one greasy Chinese place by a pet shop]
- Chinese - don't look in their kitchen, it's great food
---------- Sidney, BC top
- Maria's Souvlaki & Greek Snack Bar | 9812 2nd St - 250.656.9944
- Greek - the best Greek food, and fast
---------- Victoria, BC top
- Victoria's Greek Resurant (unsure of name)
- Greek - perfect (flaming cheese stuff)
---------- San Francisco, Ca top
- Floating Boat Sushi
- Japanese - much sushi for little money
- [That shish-ka-bob grill on Haight Street]
- Mediterranean - delicious cucumber salad and couscous
- In-N-Out Burger
- Burgers - the best fast food burgers created
---------- Port Townsend, Wa top
- Ichikawa
- Japanese - delicate sushi
- Waterfront Pizza | 360.385.6629
- Pizza - California style, always filling
- CJ's Burger
-
Burgers - family run and hearty
- [That Thai place of goodness]
- Thai - spicy but amazing (chicken sate)
---------- Arcata, Ca top
- Japhy's
- Deli - beautiful curry soup
- Tomo's
- Japanese - classy and tasty
- Los Bagels | 1061 I Street - 707.822.3150
- Bagels - the best I've ever tried (get a salt bagel, tosted, with cream cheese, red onions and cucumbers, you'll love it)
---------- San Diego, Ca top
- [That little greasy drive up place]
- Mexican - so greasy, so good, no better Mexican food anywhere
---------- Northampton, Ma top
- The Doughnut Man
- Breakfast - perfect for 5am bagel runs
- Thai Garden
- Thai - a welcome place for the Thai deprived
- Taipei Tokyo
- Asian - wonderfully cheap, quality spring rolls and egg drop soup
---------- New York, NY top
- The Life Cafe | 343 E. 10th St. (East Village)
at Ave. B - 212.477.8791
- Cafe - where a lot of RENT was written, you can breathe in there
- [That wonderful veggie place]
- Vegetarian - exotic, with the most impressive flavors I've found
---------- Chicago, Il top
- Taqueria Hernandez
- Mexican - the best carne asada tostadas
- Carmen's Pizza
- Pizza - deep dish spinach pizza with lovley salty crust
- Hartigans Ice Cream Shop
- Ice Cream - peppermint stick ice cream to die for
- Pancho Pistolas
- Mexican - all around delicious, especially the carne asada
- Edwardo's Natural Pizza Resturant
- Pizza - deep dish spinach pizza with the perfect ratio of spinach to cheese
---------- Cleveland, Oh top
- Minh-Anh Vietnamese Restaurant | 5428 Detroit Ave - 216.961.9671
- Vietnamese soup, the best east of Portland.
- Mint Cafe | 1791 Coventry Road Cleveland Heights - 216.320.9915
- Good food, but amazing plum bubble tea.
---------- Barcelona, Spain top
- Restaurant Vietnamita Capitol II | Villarroel 199 - 93.419.22.83
- The best soup FAR east of Portland...
- Mediterrania | Passatge Batlló 3 - 93.453.49.77
- Hummus and such things done the right way.
---------- Not in any city top
- Beasley Burger [Somewhere between Portland, Or and Seattle, Wa, on Interstate 5 (I think)]
- Burgers - a perfect traveling break, and juicy too.
