Screen Door (restaurant)

Screen Door

The restaurant's front exterior in 2010
Location in Portland, Oregon
Restaurant information
Current owner(s) David Mouton (co-owner)[1]
Food type
Street address 2337 E. Burnside Street
City Portland, Oregon
County Multnomah
State Oregon
Postal code/ZIP 97214
Country United States
Coordinates 45°31′23″N 122°38′30″W / 45.52310°N 122.64171°W / 45.52310; -122.64171
Website screendoorrestaurant.com

Screen Door is a popular Southern and soul food restaurant in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

Description and history

Screen door is a popular Southern and soul food restaurant located at 2337 E. Burnside Street in Portland's Kerns neighborhood.[2][3] Its specialty is crispy buttermilk-battered fried chicken, sometimes accompanied with sweet potato waffles.[4][5][6] The menu also includes biscuits, fried green tomatoes, grits, macaroni and cheese, po' boy, pulled pork, and ribs; weekend brunch features Bananas Foster french toast and biscuits and gravy (sausage or vegetarian).[3][7] The restaurant's hushpuppy recipe has been published by The Washington Post, and subsequently other outlets.[1][8]

Screen Door often has a queue line. According to co-owner David Mouton, the restaurant can host as many as 500 customers per weekend. Wait times are sometimes shared via voicemail.[1] Screen Door warns guests, "Good fried chicken takes time. Please consider this when ordering."[5]

In 2013, the restaurant's head chef Rick Widmayer left after serving for six years, citing "creative differences". He said, "We'd had some creative clashes over the years and it finally got to the point where I wanted more freedom to experiment and to grow. Screen Door has such a rigid concept and criteria: over-the-top Southern…there's no room for change."[2]

Reception

Screen Door has been associated with Portland's reputation as a food destination.[6][9] The Cooking Channel has recommended the restaurant for the "best Southern breakfast on the West Coast".[10] Glamour recommended the fried chicken and sweet potato waffles on their "must-try list for "serious foodies'" (2013).[4] The Portland Mercury has described the restaurant as "spacious yet cozy", with a varied menu.[7]

In 2012, Portland Monthly reviewed and contrasted the restaurant's fried chicken and waffles with Simpatica's recipe in the magazine's "Battle for the Best Fried Chicken and Waffles" in the city.[11] The magazine also included Screen Door's "Spicy Creole Bloody" recipe in its list of Portland's best Bloody Marys.[12] The restaurant's mashed potatoes and tasso gravy recipe was a contender in Portland Monthly's 2016 "Spud Bracket", which recognized the city's best potato "creations".[13] Tom Sietsema of The Washington Post wrote, "If you have time for only one breakfast, make it this convivial Southern charmer, easy to spot due to the inevitable line out the door".[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sietsema, Tom (July 22, 2015). "No city does breakfast quite like Portland". The Herald (Everett, Washington). Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Tepler, Benjamin (March 1, 2013). "Chef Rick Widmayer Out at Screen Door". Portland Monthly. ISSN 1546-2765. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Screen Door". Travel + Leisure (Time Inc.). ISSN 0041-2007. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Raymond, Julia (June 14, 2013). "Portland Food in the News". Portland Monthly. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Screen Door". Food Network. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Sietsema, Tom (December 21, 2015). "The 10 best food cities in America, ranked". The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.). ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Screen Door". The Portland Mercury (Index Publishing). Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Screen Door Breakfast Hush Puppies". The Washington Post. July 1, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ "The Washington Post Names Portland America’s Best Food City". Portland Monthly. December 21, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Screen Door". Cooking Channel. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dundas, Zach; Ritchie, Rachel; Patail, Martin; Brooks, Karen; Gay, Dan (February 23, 2012). "Portland's Battle for the Best Fried Chicken and Waffles". Portland Monthly. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  12. ↑ Ritchie, Rachel; Brooks, Karen; Jones, Allison (February 23, 2012). "Portland's Best Bloody Marys". Portland Monthly. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  13. ↑ Clarke, Kelly (January 15, 2016). "The Spud Bracket". Portland Monthly. Retrieved January 30, 2016.

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