The Best Restaurants and Bars in the Columbia River Gorge | Eater Portland

"Though any Portlander could simply visit one of the Broder locations in Portland proper, the Hood River location of the Scandinavian standby remains one of the finest spots for a weekend brunch in the Gorge. Guests staying in the Hood River Hotel stroll down from their rooms into the lobby-adjacent restaurant, to sip on aquavit-spiked bloody marys and cardamom coffee before digging into lefse, eggs baked with spinach and cream, or puffy little ebleskiver, which are Swedish pancakes served with lemon curd and lingonberry jam. For lunch, Broder’s gravlax smorrebrod — an open faced sandwich with cured salmon and shrimp salad — is a nice summer bite, while the hearty Swedish meatballs are an obvious, well-executed crowd-pleaser." - Molly Allen