"When it opened in 2009, East Burnside’s Laurelhurst Market was emblematic of the current state of Portland dining, celebrating whole animal butchery and in-house everything: The market’s butcher shop supplied the restaurant with then-uncommon cuts like culottes and cured things like bacon and charcuterie. Fifteen years later, Laurelhurst remains a bastion of truly inventive steakhouse fare, yuzu-mustard jus adding zip to marinated hangar steaks and pickled green garlic cutting the richness of a grilled New York strip. Visitors should go for the wonderfully intricate (but not overly complicated) starters and salads — on a recent visit, crispy maitake mushrooms arrived with a miso green goddess, balanced by marinated cucumber, while a harvest salad reined in its pickle-y acidity with a bed of romesco. Another must: The cornbread, skillet crisp and so savory with whipped lardo and rosemary honey." - Eater Staff
