The 38 Essential Restaurants and Food Carts in Portland
"Chef Fatou Ouattara has become the city’s unofficial West African culinary ambassador, hosting cooking classes and selling sauces out of her Southeast Division restaurant. In a dining room lined with art, occasionally hosting spoken word poets and DJs, diners tear apart intricately spiced samosas and dunk them into Ouattara’s tomato and mustard-based sauces, balancing their acidity with ample use of alliums. Any meal should involve one of the restaurant’s stews — menus change, so one day, that might be Senegalese, peanut butter-rich mafe yapp, while other visits may involve fall-apart tender goat in a tomato-y base. Sides of supremely flavorful jollof rice and springy fufu are both musts." - Eater Staff
Molly J. Smith/Eater Portland
