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wow - incredibly disappointed. Skippy is nasty nasty stuff. I was raised on adams and nowadays I'll go for adams, maranatha or the whole foods brand.

@rheogs - Starbucks coffee is almost unpalatable. I love a rich, dark coffee, and I have nothing really against Starbucks as a company. However, their coffee is downright burnt - whether it's the beans (which I think is less likely) or the fact that it is brewed in a crappy metal brew-thingy and then sits in those super hot metal containers (more likely), somewhere down the line the stuff basically always gets burnt. I was raised, like a good little portlander, on stumptown and the like so I do appreciate a good cup of coffee and Starbucks does not offer that.

I'm glad so many people feel, as I do, that shows like man vs. food are such a load of junk. I find it embarrassing that people watch this indulgent and ignorant sort of thing - same way I feel about eating contests.

As for the above commenter who finds the sentiment that wasting food is bad to be 'banal', I'm sorry, but when there are people who are going hungry here in our very own country, it is important to be weary of wastefulness in the kitchen.

I am so shocked that there are people here who say that organics aren't worth it. They are imperfect yes, but it IS in fact quite regulated- much more so than any other words people throw onto their products like "natural' etc. Even 'cage free' isn't much of a comfort when you dig down into what they can get away with doing to those chickens and still call it 'cage free'.

Organics are worth it. Period. Even if it's industrial organic, it's still the best line of defense you have shopping at a regular fluorescent grocery store against all the scary things that are out there in the food system today.EASY.

Mostly Marta! So great - 'no reservations' was a remake, and a sad excuse for one at that.

love all those other ones too- especially Tampopo and Big Night

Side note about the name- this restaurant is pronounced Le (the french 'luh' sort of way) and then just pigeon, like "pigeon" the good old american way. just a side note, since I noticed that little discussion of it above.

I love the assumption that iced coffee has to have milk (this one was milkier than that one). At Starbucks at least, you can add the milk yourself, which makes it seem kind of odd to sort of compare the 'milkiness' of these various iced coffees. And the McCafe crap is such a joke. It's like milky baby bottles for grownups. blech.

But yeah, in this day and age, most people in any sort of town/city has a local cafe that does it better than any of these guys. And if they don't, just order beans from Stumptown or someone and do it yourself.

Toro Bravo, Pok pok are great suggestions! Also, Podnah's Pit is a MUST DO brunch spot. Seriously. Their biscuits and gravy are the one thing I miss about Portland Food on a regular basis. Nothing in New York has even come close. Don't miss it!

Also, Ned Ludd and Beast are two places whose food really sums up the whole Portland aesthetic, and I'd be sure to go to Ken's Artisan for fantasic wood-fired pizza.

interesting- so much fat and sugar. with a few fat-phobes (non-fat) who are nonetheless okay with ingesting HUGE amounts of sugar thrown in for fun.

I take my coffee black, with half and half. as a portland native, i'm find nyc to be a touch town for coffee, so unfortunately I end up at starbucks more often then i'd like to admit.

So excellent, very inspiring!

that's so great! looks like a lot of work!