Every year a group of friends and I go on a vacation. We call it Annual Holiday. I'm writing this on the last night of our Sixth Annual, Annual Holiday or AHV6 as we like to call it. My location? Portland, Oregon. You see...we switch it up international and domestic and last year we visited Costa Rica so this year we picked a spot not nearly as hot as our home of Nashville, TN and a place where none of us had spent a considerable amount of time. During these holiday's we pretty regularly do two things: eat and drink. The first restaurant I'm going to cover is Pine State Biscuits.
Pine State can be found in North East Portland and boasts yummy biscuits and biscuit accoutrement like eggs, bacon, gravy, etc. Being from the south I question the PNW's ability to really comprehend the importance of the biscuit and exactly how to make the perfect biscuit. My questioning is for good reason.
We busted up (all ten of us) at Pine State on Thursday morning after a day of whitewater rafting and a night of wine and liquor beverages. I perused the menu online prior to our jaunt (we stayed in Lake Oswego) downtown and knew I was going to have the Moneyball.
A biscuit topped with sausage gravy and an over easy egg. (if you like it then you should have put an egg on it). The Moneyball was NOT bad but it did have 2 things pointing it in the wrong direction: 1. The biscuits are too dense. Not nearly fluffy enough. Probably not made with buttermilk. And definitely not made by my granny. 2. The sausage gravy was a bit too sweet.
Neither of these completely flawed the dish but I'm not ready to give Pine State Biscuits a crown.
Side Note: The do have a dish their called The Reggie Deluxe that consists of: Biscuit with fried chicken, fried egg, bacon, cheese and gravy...it's like whoa.
Side Note #2: The Collard Greens were actually "slap yo momma" good.
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