

There are more than a few versions of Thai noodles, including the wide, flat variety used in Pad Kee Mao and Pad Se Ew.


Skip the fried rice and dig into a massive plate of noodles with your choice of meat (or tofu). Like other spots on this list, it's a Portland institution, and there's usually a line out the door of this renovated house turned restaurant. Shandong gets close, but there's something just perfect about Frank's hand-pulled, thick and glutinous Chinese style noodles. With a plate of this and a glass of sangiovese, you'll forget you're not in Rome. At Pizza Italia, it comes the traditional way, with pancetta, onion, pecorino, and a red wine and tomato reduction. Bucatini is a thick noodle, wider than spaghetti, with a hole running through the center. There are many kinds of Italian pasta, but the bucatini noodle deserves its own category.

The noodles are made from scratch daily and topped with housemade meatballs and marinara - simple, straightforward, delicious. For this Italian-American dish, head to A Cena, the cozy Sellwood institution. It's a classic for a reason - no list about noodles would be complete without spaghetti, and especially spaghetti with meatballs. You have the option of rice or noodles, and you should definitely go with the latter: vermicelli noodles make the curry even better.
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Bang Bang offers an array of seasonal Thai curry bowls, full of vegetables and meats, none of which are authentic, but all of which are packed with flavor (the green is our favorite). And it speaks to a certain Portland love of excess.It's not exactly traditional, but that doesn't mean it's not delicious. It draws you in with its audacity, but manages to satisfy despite everything going on. I realized, as I ate, that this dish encapsulates everything I love about Montage. And despite the whimsical "fuck you" attitude of the dish, it is also weirdly understated. Spam, eggs, pesto, and chicken gravy are wed into a mass of fatty goodness that rivals poutine in its ability to give sustenance, warmth, and some kind of anchor in times of inebriation. It's the mélange every drunk would make if the spins didn't dampen their ability to wield a frying pan before passing out. How had I never experienced this? The dish is wanton culinary strangeness. Then, a vision-the one dish I'd glanced at for years but had never ordered-widowed there at the bottom of the menu: green eggs and spam. Mercury Food Critic Patrick Alan Coleman reviewed them in 2009, and while they certainly never needed the help, his critique of Montage was an unabashed rave: And in the wasteland that is late night Portland dining, they were a perfectly delicious refuge right up until 2 am. You could always count on Le Bistro if you had a large party hungry for catfish, alligator bites, and oyster shots. Let's also never forget the Nacho-roni they made for the Mercury's 2019 Nacho Week (Juanitas chips with pulled chicken and Cajun nacho cheese macaroni on top)! Located beneath the Morrison Bridge in the Southeast industrial area of Portland, Le Bistro long served Creole and Southern cuisine to countless locals, curious visitors, and wise souls carb-loading for a night out. “We have been so honored to serve Portland for the past 27 years,” the statement read.
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Le Bistro Montage, the well-known and beloved late-night eatery famous for ooey-gooey mac 'n' cheese and wrapping their leftovers in tinfoil swans, announced via Facebook that they’re permanently closing and will not reopen. The famous tin foil swan leftovers of the late, great Le Bistro Montage.
