Lovely Hula Hands, Portland/ by Eric Tanaka, Executive Chef
I’ve been wanting to try Lovely Hula Hands on Mississippi St in Portland for awhile and took the opportunity while we were passing through on a family trip to Dundee for their summer fest. Carlton Farms Pork was the pork of choice here, which I generally feel is a little tough, but I enjoy a little chew. It was perfectly simple, just a grilled pork chop with bitter greens, ricotta dumpling, olive oil and lemon. I ate it down to the bone. I love pork and I really love pork chops. I like them a little on the thicker side so you get a nice char on the outside but juicy and pink on the inside, which is, I guess, how I like all my meat cooked.
Mississippi St is a lot like Old Ballard Ave in Seattle or Smith St in Brooklyn, with a great mix of restaurants, wine bars, sausage shops, boutiques, and fancy retail shops. It’s also such a bonus in Oregon to pay no tax. After eating in Seattle with our 10% tax just to pay the listed price, it feels like such a deal to eat in Portland.
(Editor’s note: photo is of a plate with just a pork chop bone.)
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