Pasta – It’s the food where shape seems to form its own flavor. Made from fine-milled flour, eggs and splashes of olive oil, pasta dough is the pliable, ready to roll, press or mold vessel cursed with the sole mission of delivering a sauce directly into your mouth.
There are oodles of places to get noodles in the Portland area. A quick Google search for pasta in downtown Portland alone comes up with a list of 22 hotspots – not a single chain even mentioned.
Restaurants like Hey Luigi’s serve delicate Vongole with pre-shelled clams. Maglia Rosa offers house-made butternut squash ravioli kissed with fried sage and amaretti crumbs. Our restaurant critic Michael Russell raves about Dimo’s Apizza ability to delight with dishes like their bouncy rigatoni in spicy vodka sauce topped with fresh basil…