Portland Cheap Eats Map 2014

Willamette Week published a thorough guide to cheap restaurants and food carts a few weeks ago. Reading the whole guide was mouthwatering and tiresome and of course resulted in a 'short list' of places to check out that was anything but short. In fact it was so long that I wouldn't have been able to use it at all to go to any of these places.

Curate and Compile [the massive flood of data we are presented every instant]... this is the challenge of the web today.

I wish Willamette Week had made a map/App for their cheap eats guide, as I have seen in other cities, but part of me is glad that they didn't, 'cause I got to do this fun project and make my map. I threw in two of my personal faves, and will probably update it over time.


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Fast Food icon is for food carts and places that are mostly take out.

This project already paid off tonight when I was driving in northeast and remembered that I was near a place on the map. Dinner at Angel Food & Fun was terrific. I had actually gotten a burrito there once when I lived in NE and thought it was OK. The pick from the cheap eats guide - Relleno Negro - was astoundingly good. Turkey and pork/egg patty floating in a pool of rich negro sauce, spiced (but not spicy), loaded with umami from the turkey fat, sopped onto the super fresh tortillas, the sauce was the star of the dish.