The Best Italian Restaurants and Food Carts in Portland | Eater Portland

"Gino’s is some Old Portland realness. This Sellwood restaurant, almost always packed with locals, delivers heaping piles of pasta and other red sauce standards to tables in its dining room and wood-lined bar. Grandma Jean’s, the restaurant’s version of a Sunday gravy, is absolutely teeming with pork ribs, stewed beef, and pepperoni, tossed with penne. Zesty puttanesca and penne alla vodka bring a spicy zing to the selection. And outside the world of pasta, seafood-packed cioppino is a favorite among the restaurant’s decades-loyal regulars." - Eater Staff