![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m an extreme local chain aficionado, and I love Cafe Yumm. Everything I’ve had there is just killer, and it’s a place that I will absolutely go out of my way for.” Cafe Yumm They do that impossible thing with a duck breast where it’s moist and perfectly cooked but the skin is perfectly rendered out, but they cover it in garlic sauce. They have three different duck dishes on the menu that they absolutely nail. It’s next to one of those indoor trampoline places. “If, for some reason, I need to be in the mid-to-outskirts of Vancouver, Washington, there is a place called Thai Wok Kitchen out by the Vancouver Mall, and oh my God, it’s the best Thai food in town I’ve had. Give me a cortado and a biscuit and I’m happy.” Thai Wok Kitchen It’s just super-duper simple and beautifully made pastries and super-duper simple and beautifully made coffee. I’ve gotten super into Commissary Cafe - boy, I like those guys. “I’m an occasional coffee person once every couple of weeks I’ll get a nice cup of coffee. The idea that you could go into a restaurant and get a perfectly made seafood pancake and also poached eggs and also a pancake the size of my torso? It’s just incredible.” Commissary Cafe ![]() “The places I’m most excited to go out to for breakfast are American diners. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Find her guide to dining in Portland (and Vancouver, Washington) below. However, she as emphatically gushes about a number of old-school spots and relative newcomers in Portland and Vancouver - her favorite fried chicken, her go-to diner breakfast, her favorite strip mall Thai restaurant. When talking about her favorite Portland restaurants, Gordon spends much of her time mourning the ones we’ve lost along the way: The Overlook Cafe, Wong’s King. “Listen, I spent my morning yelling at Mike about a TV chef who later outed himself as a Nazi, so I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’ll talk about HK Cafe, sounds great,’” Gordon says, with a laugh. She and her co-host, journalist Michael Hobbes, dissect the myths surrounding fad diets, weight-loss products, fat-phobic medical bias, and phenomenons in the sticky world of “wellness,” ranging from Jordan Peterson’s all-meat diet to Halo Top ice cream, Snackwell’s to celery juice. When Aubrey Gordon - the Portland-raised host of the podcast Maintenance Phase - talks about food publicly, it’s not often about food she actually enjoys. ![]()
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