Portland? Why not!

Yeh I know , It's been a couple o weeks since last I blogged,but I thought I'd hold back till Bloggworthyness overcame me !So the Famished Four hit the road for food Portland style,Saturday morning. Ol Hot T brought lists of different places to try,it was quite a collection,we were going for two and a half days,and there was probably a months worth of joints to try. Good Job Ken , you did not disappoint. We stayed at the waterfront Marriot on the river,nice! ,good job Msue!, my only job I guess was to eat... well stick with what your good at I always say! .Those of you who are familiar with how this blog works, you know how I rolls wit it all! My quest that is... to find the perfect breakfast along with the perfect cup of coffee...Well Harken all ye breakfast foodies! I done found it, yeppers all rolled into one fantabulicious, funkified piece of nirvanna called Mothers,and within walking distance of the Hotel...Wut uupp!
Feeling a little fuzzy from Saturday night, we were out walking Sunday morn, I dont really know if we were indeed headed to this place or if we stumbled across it... doesn't matter... 45 min to an hour wait outside in the cold... Totally worth it! When we finally did get in tiniest portion of this restaurant, I knew I needed more than a cup o joe, Ol Hot T and I ordered Blood Marys,Smoj ordered a Blood orange drop, MSue a Mimosa. The Blood orange drop was a kinda adult slushy with blood orange infused vodka, pretty exotic for ol smoj , but still along her comfort zone, our Bloody Marys were close to the best I've had, they infuse all their liquor to match the cocktails, mmmm! Jalapeno Vodka? who knew? Darn good anyhoo. Mothers has a pretty extensive lunch menu, things like meatloaf and chicken and dumplings, gotta go back, but the breakfast menu was smaller, little did we know. Msue and Val both ordered the Portabella Mushroom scramble,served with roasted spuddlys , mucho yummo was their replys, along with homemade bread for toast and jam, Ol Hot T Ken,ordered the chefs special scramble , Sausage, Ham, cheese and whole garlic cloves, along with the above taters, a breakfast fit for a king! he also had hot T, steeped the old fashioned way and then thru an infusior to the cup, he was pretty impressed. As for me? Give me a moment please... ... ... K it was all so encompassing, I'm feeling a bit flushed just recalling it all. You know? Ive had Biscuits and gravy at just about every place we've been too, yep some good ,some really good, but nothing really prepared me for this, Biscuits.. Homemade and perfect, Two eggs over medium and also perfect, plus these were farm fresh eggs,soooo good and firm with their yolky goodness just a oozing everywhere... Here comes the Gravy! Spicy , Sausagy,not greasy . HolyCrapalicious, also frikkin perfect, I have never had this dish in a restaurant prepared this well, I wanted to stay for lunch! It was kind of a religious experience, You know how after Thanksgiving dinner, you just sit back, maybe unbutton a bit? Yeh exactly. All this perfection would have paled a bit if the Jo was sub par, but you know what? Yep Cafe de delicious!! also probably the best brewed cup of Java I've ever had , Stumptown was the brand, should a bought some to take home,I was pretty speechless by it all, Ol Hot T and Smoj along with Msue were pretty impressed that i was that pleased with it all, Msue herself makes a mean plate of Skits and gravy, even she said as good as her meal was, after tasting mine, paled in comparison, I feel a little bad about not letting Hot T have a bite, frankly it didn't even occur to me during my masticational journey that AM, Sorry Ken, So Good but so far away, Portland ? Who knew? Although Mothers was our stop for Sunday Nosh, our Dinner the night before was almost as good! We went to Kenny and Zooks, a New York style deli with giant sandwiches, chopped liver , bagels , all that kinda stuff, MSue and I split a Reauben Sandwich, terrific corned beef ,kraut, side o horseradish, washed it down with a Hood river porter... Dang! Ken and Val also split a cold pastrami sandwich, only about 10 inches thick , man o man a real two fister mister! On Sunday evening We had Dinner at a Sister Restaurant of Mothers , called Mama Mias, Italian as you might have guessed, equally impressive, Ken had "Grandma Mary's Sunday Gravy", meatballs,chunks of Pork over Rigatoni... It looked great! He didnt' give me a bite, payback from breakfast I guess, MSue had the Gnocchi, tossed in a creamy tomato sauce bolognaise, Excellantay, Val ordered Linguini and Clam sauce, she said it was delicious. We were also joined at dinner by Ken and Vals daughter Amanda and her boyfriend Skip who drove in from OSU to have dinner with us , nice to see them! Our dear friend Patty Baker, who lives in Lake Oswego also graced us with her company, Love her to bits, always good to see her, unfortunatly Her husband Eric was ill and could not join us ,Sorry E , missed ya buddy, you missed a good dinner. So all in all, a great weekend, even got to see my nephew Brian and my niece Michelle and brand new great nephew Gabriel, born on 2/11/11. we went out to their house and visited for a bit, nice! So Portland was fun, we ate to much, but we pretty much walked it all off, I think we might have covered the whole Town on foot, ouch! Funny place tho, kinda funky, kinda artsy fartsy, really good food , really good! Learned a few things not to do, Go into a sports shop and ask where the Husky gear is , or ask why everyone wears green and yellow,Just a little wisdom I thought I'd pass on. I dont care if you are weird Portland, I'm coming back!