[truth]

Hash
8728 SE 17th Avenue
Portland, OR 97255


Just ate at this new breakfast joint in Sellwood yesterday. Almost everything is made from scratch (eg, they smoke their own bacon). I had really good Danish Ableskivers, which I had never had before. They were little pancake balls stuffed with apples, served with a vanilla bean sauce and a caramel apple sauce. It was really different than most breakfast offerings around town and very delicious. They also have a few hashes (bacon, mushroom, house corned beef, etc) and other traditional breakfast options, as well as a few sandwiches. Coffee is from Courier, juices fresh squeezed, etc. According to menu, alcohol coming in October. Great little place, wish it was in my neighborhood.

[Markovitch]

monosyllabic restaurants! woot!

sounds tasty--i had Ableskivers at Broder a while ago. they really should be more popular than they are. yumm!

[truth]

truth, on Sep 8 2008, 11:39 AM, said:

I had really good Danish Ableskivers, which I had never had before. They were little pancake balls stuffed with apples, served with a vanilla bean sauce and a caramel apple sauce.

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[Little E]

I live in the hood and have been watching it slowly come together (those spots in this brand new building took forever to rent out). I tried to go for lunch today, but it was closed. Now I am really looking forward to trying it out.

Note the hours say 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but no indication of what days they are open.

[ducky]

Welcome to the site, Little E!

[Joy]

Gonna have to check that out since it's in our hood. I love Bertie Lou's, but they are so tiny that the wait can make you swoon. Ableskivers...sounds interesting. I do dearly love a good corned beef hash though.

Welcome Little E!

[Markovitch]

I was informed by a neighborhoody that they have a book loaner library in the restaurant. I can't decide if that makes me hate them more or like them more, but I think the fogies in the 'places that hipsters ruined' thread will have fun with this.

[SauceSupreme]

A little off topic, but I love how versatile abelskivers are. I've had variants at Banh Cuon Tanh Dinh and Sel Gris, and I always kicked myself for not having the takoyaki at Tanuki.

[concreteoatmeal]

SauceSupreme, on Sep 11 2008, 12:52 PM, said:

A little off topic, but I love how versatile abelskivers are. I've had variants at Banh Cuon Tanh Dinh and Sel Gris, and I always kicked myself for not having the takoyaki at Tanuki.

dont be too hard on yourself, I think you were out of town the two times they were on. anyways, that is and was my only experience with takoyaki, so i have no basis to judge them. If they get much better then QV's, man would i be in trouble if anyone else was doing them! they are so good!

[Quo Vadis]

Takoyaki is going to be a Saturday Midnite Cookingu menu item this weekend.

Com'n gitit CO.

[Matticus]

My family is dutch and the skeeevers be some of my favorite things ever. They taste like grandma's house.

Think crepe but in ball form.

you can put stuff inside of them too. ohman.

[ExtraMSG]

Your grandma doesn't say, "Nibble nibble like a mouse, who is nibbling on my house?" does she?

[Markovitch]

Matticus, on Sep 11 2008, 04:24 PM, said:

My family is dutch and the skeeevers be some of my favorite things ever. They taste like grandma's house.

At least they don't taste like Grandma

[foodcriticPDX]

truth, on Sep 8 2008, 11:39 AM, said:

Hash
8728 SE 17th Avenue
Portland, OR 97255


Just ate at this new breakfast joint in Sellwood yesterday. Almost everything is made from scratch (eg, they smoke their own bacon). I had really good Danish Ableskivers, which I had never had before. They were little pancake balls stuffed with apples, served with a vanilla bean sauce and a caramel apple sauce. It was really different than most breakfast offerings around town and very delicious. They also have a few hashes (bacon, mushroom, house corned beef, etc) and other traditional breakfast options, as well as a few sandwiches. Coffee is from Courier, juices fresh squeezed, etc. According to menu, alcohol coming in October. Great little place, wish it was in my neighborhood.

YUM. Sounds freakin' awesome. I'm gonna take a friend there this weekend. Was is crowded when you went?

[truth]

foodcriticPDX, on Sep 11 2008, 04:59 PM, said:

YUM. Sounds freakin' awesome. I'm gonna take a friend there this weekend. Was is crowded when you went?

No, but I think it might start to be soon... I don't think they have been written up anywhere yet, so it is probably still quiet.

[BigDaddy]

We'll have to try this place this weekend so long as the Sellwood Bridge doesn't collapse. While age qualified for fogeydom, I don't see how a lending library could detract from any eating place.

I hope it's nothing like my grandma's house, as one of my childhood memories is of her screaming in Polish at top volume in her kitchen, then roaring out to the living room, waving a butcher knife at me and yelling, "You too must get out of my house!!!" I complied while peeing myself, which caused her further aggravation. This was, however, excellent stimulus for, and remedy against the terrors of, a prolonged adolescence drinking in very sketchy bars.

[foodcriticPDX]

just found this GLOWING review of HASH on yelp

http://www.yelp.com/biz/hash-portland#hrid...j1IDMzws7ibMEgw

[ExtraMSG]

Markovitch, on Sep 11 2008, 04:55 PM, said:

Matticus, on Sep 11 2008, 04:24 PM, said:

My family is dutch and the skeeevers be some of my favorite things ever. They taste like grandma's house.

At least they don't taste like Grandma

I love that it was an Oregonian that made it a reality:

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Real tomacco
In 2003, inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant. Both plants are members of the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade.

The plant produced spawn that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine. The world's first tomacco, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco was given to a Simpsons writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the tomacco. The Tomacco plant bore tomaccoes until it died after 18 months, spending one winter indoors.

The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation, Bio-Organic Chemistry, on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0)

The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word "least likely to succeed."[1] Tomacco was www.wordspy.com "word of the Day". http://www.wordspy.c...rds/tomacco.asp

There's a reason that the creator of the Simpsons was raised in Oregon.

Solanaceae is an amazing family of plants: tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, chiles, eggplant, etc. Not quite as interesting as the family cannabaceae, which has both hops and marijuana, but probably more constructive.

[concreteoatmeal]

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but probably more constructive

but not lucrative!!!

[BigDaddy]

We had breakfast there yesterday good grief it was wonderful food. I had Eggs Florentine, which promised heirloom tomatoes, yet none appeared, seems they'd run out (!). The hollandaise was made for my taste, as it was extra lemony yet still well emulsified, but a purist might be angry at the zip. Jean had the bacon hash, not so much hash or bacon as a huge hunk of well smoked very rich pork belly atop an egg atop some good, well seasoned, well roasted potatoes. We were cautioned about the extreme fattiness, which was a plus, I have a feeling some folks may be dismayed. Such deliciousness. I'd not had Courier coffee, and it was good, but even in a french press a litttle thin bodied. The fresh oj was wonderful. The tiny little scones were fine, not at all crumbly, a great crunch with flavor, and the rye toast with the bacon hash was about as good as it gets, but be warned, heavy caraway.

Service was sweet but a touch ditzy; I mentioned the tomato situation, and our check was added incorrectly. When I showed this to our server, she allowed as how she thought something was wrong with it when she added it up. Uhhhh.......there may be a solution here if you look hard enough.



BTW, they were slammin' at 9 AM on Sunday. However, as it was a very spectacular morning, everyone may have been out and about to get it while it's good. The lending library, by the way, had a good selection of books. I think I've found a spot for the books Powell's doesn't want but are better than VOA deserves.