The prestigious James Beard Foundation honored Thai street food favorite Pok Pok's Chef Andy Ricker with its Best Chef: Northwest Award in 2011. From the restaurant's website:
"We serve food found at pubs,
restaurants, homes and the streets of Southeast Asia with the majority
of the food coming from Thailand, and specifically from the North and
Northeast of Thailand. We do not make 'fusion' food here; everything has
been researched, eaten and/or prepared in the country of its origin
prior to being put on the Pok Pok menu (exception: the Pok Pok Affogato,
which is an unabashed riff on the Vietnamese breakfast of coffee and
fried doughnuts)."
"What Martin Scorsese is to the mean streets of New York, Andy Ricker is
to the eat streets of Southeast Asia: an obsessive with a profound feel
for his subject. Ricker's a serious food cart-quester, with some 20
years of field experience in Thailand and beyond, hanging with hawkers
and sniffing out roadside stalls. The best finds turn up at Pok Pok, an
extraordinary eat-lounge and food shack in Southeast Portland."
- The Oregonian
Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner daily.
ADDRESS
3226 SE Division St ,
Portland, OR 97202
LOCALEATS AWARDS
Top 100 Restaurant
Best Thai in Portland
WHAT WE SAY
The prestigious James Beard Foundation honored Thai street food favorite Pok Pok's Chef Andy Ricker with its Best Chef: Northwest Award in 2011.
WHAT THEY SAY
From the restaurant's website:
"We serve food found at pubs,
restaurants, homes and the streets of Southeast Asia with the majority
of the food coming from Thailand, and specifically from the North and
Northeast of Thailand. We do not make 'fusion' food here; everything has
been researched, eaten and/or prepared in the country of its origin
prior to being put on the Pok Pok menu (exception: the Pok Pok Affogato,
which is an unabashed riff on the Vietnamese breakfast of coffee and
fried doughnuts)."
"What Martin Scorsese is to the mean streets of New York, Andy Ricker is
to the eat streets of Southeast Asia: an obsessive with a profound feel
for his subject. Ricker's a serious food cart-quester, with some 20
years of field experience in Thailand and beyond, hanging with hawkers
and sniffing out roadside stalls. The best finds turn up at Pok Pok, an
extraordinary eat-lounge and food shack in Southeast Portland."
- The Oregonian
ADDITIONAL INFO
Full bar. Serving lunch and dinner daily.