Things To Like
We had dinner at Rocket fairly recently and subsequently ducked back in for a beverage and some snacks. H felt some trepidation initially, as she had heard mixed things from various food-eating personages. We suspect that maybe the place got off to a slow start, because both of our visits there were exceptional. On the first visit we were with 4 other people and had every entrée except the hamburger. Everyone shared everything, and we were all very pleased. I think the consensus is that the port shoulder was the number one offering, but I personally balanced my approbation a little more fairly. I will quell the urge to offer snobbish asides as to why this may have been.
The more recent visit involved only apps and drinks. H got some kind of meat-filled hush puppy, and I had a salad that was a bunch of slightly sweet and very tender pork under an immense pile of kimchi. The overall effect was extremely good, although I have to say that I think they wussed out a bit on the kimchi (i.e.: it wasn’t anywhere near as stanky as I was hoping that it would be.)
We have also become devotees of Apizza Scholls, although NOT of it’s patently offensive window decorations. Extremely poor taste aside, this place is a titan of tastiness. Our main problem is that we have not yet broken out of the one-caesar-and-one-white-pizza-to-share mould, and probably won’t for the foreseeable future. Apizza may have an amazing array of other delicious options available to us, but for us we’re remarkably incurious. In our defense, the white pizza is basically cheese, truffle oil and sea salt. What the fuck else would you want?
Couple of concluding observations:
1) I promise that the next time I write about restaurants there will be surreptitiously snapped photos.
2) I don’t know if the same company does web sites for 90% of Portland’s restaurants, or if there’s some kind of hive mind mentality surrounding restaurant web design, but it sucks. This template (Rocket’s site is an example, Scholl’s isn’t) is absolutely horrible, and people perpetrating it need to die in a fire. Thanks.