Thai Spoon

1334 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: November 13, 3009 Price for 2 (with tip) $17 If there is one thing Portland does not have a shortage of it's Thai restaurants. There are at least 5 I can think of off the top of my head on Hawthorne alone, and for that reason, we'd never tried Thai Spoon before. But whenever it's my turn to drive (yes, we drive to lunch every day and we've both driven to the office so we always fight over who has to drive that day) I always pick a place that's as close as possible. Don't tell Jared about this, since when he drives…
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Thanh Thao

4005 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: October 29, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip) $16 Though there was nothing particularly Vietnamese or Thai (as the sign implies) about the lunch I ate at Thanh Thao, it definitely is in the running for my favorite new lunch spot on Hawthorne. Today's visit was actually our second attempt to each there. The first was on Tuesday, the one day a week they are closed. That day, we ended up eating at No Fish, Go Fish right across the street instead, so it wasn't all bad. Thanh Thao is decent sized and was nearly full with diners, which is always a good…
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Thai Spoon

1334 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: November 13, 3009 Price for 2 (with tip) $17 If there is one thing Portland does not have a shortage of it's Thai restaurants. There are at least 5 I can think of off the top of my head on Hawthorne alone, and for that reason, we'd never tried Thai Spoon before. But whenever it's my turn to drive (yes, we drive to lunch every day and we've both driven to the office so we always fight over who has to drive that day) I always pick a place that's as close as possible. Don't tell Jared about this, since when he drives…
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Thanh Thao

4005 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: October 29, 2009 Price for 2 (with tip) $16 Though there was nothing particularly Vietnamese or Thai (as the sign implies) about the lunch I ate at Thanh Thao, it definitely is in the running for my favorite new lunch spot on Hawthorne. Today's visit was actually our second attempt to each there. The first was on Tuesday, the one day a week they are closed. That day, we ended up eating at No Fish, Go Fish right across the street instead, so it wasn't all bad. Thanh Thao is decent sized and was nearly full with diners, which is always a good…
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