Caffé Mingo

Frommer's Review

This intimate little neighborhood restaurant has terrific food, an interior as attractive as that of any other upscale restaurant here on Northwest Portland's restaurant row, and relatively low prices. If there's any problem with this immensely popular place it's that you almost always have to wait for a table, and they only take reservations for large parties. The solution? Get here as early as possible. The menu is short, and focuses on painstakingly prepared Italian comfort food. Just about all the items on the menu are winners, from the antipasto platter, which might include roasted fennel, fresh mozzarella, and roasted red pepper, to an unusual penne pasta dish with tender beef braised in chianti and espresso. The panna cotta dessert ("cooked cream" with fruit) is reason enough to come back here again and again, even if you have to wait in the rain to get a seat.

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