Restaurant Reviews

Portland Mercury

Flapjacks, Ruebens, and corned beef hash. BLTs, onion rings, and milkshakes: These are the mid-morning food dreams of the cubicle-bound. Somewhere in Kansas there’s a diner with their name on it—a lunch counter, a cup of coffee, and breakfast served all day. Now, imagine a tornado destroying that diner, while simultaneously transporting read the full story…

This cozy, and sunny (weather permitting) little southeast cafe has been remodeled since the space’s origin as Gramma Lucy’s, complete with new owners. It’s still a cafe though, naturally specializing in breakfast and lunch. The breakfast involves read the full story…

Food and Ink

The Blue Pig Cafe is near the corner of 50th and Division in the old Gramma Lucy’s spot.  They are doing Breakfast and Lunch 7 days a week and by the looks of the menu, I’m sure they will be packed read the full story…

Willamette Week

On Memorial Day weekend, a Portland pig was born—Blue Pig Cafe on Southeast Division Street. Owners Jay Azevedo and Mike Garofalo, who became friends while working at Southeast’s Artemis Foods catering, decided to strike out on their own this year read the full story…

Willamette Week Cheap Eats

2010

Call me a pig and keep the food coming. The fruit at this neighborhood diner is tropical and gorgeous, the sandwiches piled high, the veggies fresh and the bacon, well, perfect. With options to satiate the vegans (the your-way tofu scramble, $9.95), the meaties read the full story…

2009

You’d think pork would reign at this breakfast-and-lunch-all-day cafe, but beef is the draw. House-corned beef ($8.95), simmered and seasoned for eight hours, is served in a traditional hash or draped with locally fermented kraut, Swiss read the full story…

KPTV

The Portland Breakfast Guy Goes to Blue Pig.  I confess a certain sadness upon the closing of Gramma Lucy’s Cafe on SE Division. It was far from the best food in town, and it was far from the best-looking place, as well. But it was possibly the most entertaining place to eat breakfast, mainly read the full story…

The spot on SE Division that was once Grandma Lucy’s has been renovated into a bright, cozy breakfast restaurant catering to those who like classic flapjacks and constantly full coffee mugs. American traditional staples run the gamut from waffles, biscuits and gravy and a tofu scramble read the full story…

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