Old Wives’ Tale

• Old Wives’ Tale website

• Location: NE, Sandy & Burnside

• Price to fill up two people minus booze: $20

Supposedly this place has been written up in many magazines and appeared on Food Network a couple of times. Don’t know about that, but I do know that I’ve got friends who fly into Portland from several states over just to have OWT’s Hungarian mushroom soup. (or as my mother says, “that’s not soup; that’s gravy”) It is sinfully rich, delicious and known to cause expressions of awe in soup lovers. I’ve heard that their other soups are equally good, but if I’m in OWT, I’m ordering Hungarian mushroom soup, so who knows?

They specialize in accommodating vegetarians and people with dietary restrictions, and they do a lot of wow-man organic stuff, and some of it’s tasty. They’ve also got a waitstaff that can alternate between sweetly space cadet and surly, but who cares as long as they bring on the Hungarian mushroom soup?