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#CatTravels: Last six hours in Portland

By Catherine Toth Fox • November 13, 2012 • #CatTravels, Food

Lee Anne Wong made me do it.

The “Top Chef” competitor from Season 1 — and my gal pal — coerced me into going to Pine State Biscuits, a small biscuit shop on Belmont Avenue in Portland known for its kick-ass biscuits and gravy.

In fact, it was the only place she suggested I eat at.

So on my last half-day in the PDX, it was the first place on my list. My girlfriend, Merrissa, who moved to Portland about a year ago, picked me up — and brought along her appetite.

We were ready!

Here’s what my last six hours in Portland looked like:

Beautiful last day in PDX

Beautiful last day in PDX
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I was so SO lucky to have such great weather while in the Pacific Northwest. And I took full advantage of it!

Thank you to everyone who followed my adventures on this blog, on Twitter and Instagram. You all make my trips so much more fun! Next up: Australia!

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6 Comments

  • Reply Lusus Naturae November 13, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    Glad you had a good time in Portland. It’s a great city to eat through. You speak great truth; Pine State DEFINITELY has the best biscuits and gravy. Thanks to this post in fact, I may have to toddle over to Belmont sometime soon…

    • Reply Catherine Toth November 13, 2012 at 2:12 pm

      OMG I’m STILL thinking about those biscuits! Crazy good!

  • Reply David Jackson November 13, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    Where are the folks from that opened the biscuit shop? Reason I ask is that NC used to have a dairy called Pine State Creamery. Think they were bought up a while back. All I can say is that every Southerner loves good biscuits, we grow up eating them with chicken, sausage, and other gravies. For some reason a well made biscuit is so very good to eat.

    Australia eh? Love that p[lace, can’t wait to see where you go and what you do!

  • Reply DIO November 13, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Picture #1: Looks like you got a pic of the Aerial Tram passing over the roadway.

    Glad you got to eat biscuits and gravy.

    By the way, you need to come back here….and bring good weather with you. 😛

  • Reply De November 14, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Thanks for sharing your adventure. You made me jealous with every post.

    • Reply Catherine Toth November 16, 2012 at 10:42 am

      Thanks for reading! 🙂

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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