![]() 5 pm-10 pm Tuesday to Saturday.Īt least since the days of Café Azul, Portlanders have been blessed with quality, upscale Mexican restaurants that usually only cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston get to enjoy. La Herradura offers handmade tortillas on weekends only, so you'll always have them for your barbacoa.Ģ135 SE Division Street, Portland,, 50. Either way, it will come with garbanzos and rice in the soup with, uniquely, a bit of tomato blended into the broth. You can order the consome with or without meat. The lamb is delicately seasoned with a good mix of fat. ![]() ![]() You can choose maciza, the gringo-friendly cuts, or surtido, which includes all the other parts of the animal Mexicans eat. Not only is the average barbacoa taco at Portland taquerias enjoyable, the best could compete with roadside stands and trendy restaurants in the homeland. Instead, true friends of Mexican expats in Portland take their Spanish-speaking amigos for barbacoa, the verdadero weekend brunch south of the border. Related: We Ate at 27 Taquerias in East Portland and Gresham. But friends do not let Mexican friends in Portland eat carne asada or al pastor, two taco meats that fall embarrassingly short of the native versions. Oregon's Mexican food is often unfairly maligned by Texans and Californians who can't be bothered to make a trip to Gresham, Hillsboro, Woodburn or Salem. ![]() But for Mexican Meat Month, we let him loose. Despite his dedication to traditional Mexican cuisine-he spent the past few weeks working with a family that has been making barbacoa for nearly 60 years-we don't usually let him write about other south-of-the-border restaurants. Editor's note: Nick Zukin owns a Mexican restaurant in Old Town called Mi Mero Mole, which does not serve barbacoa. ![]()
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