So for dinner tonight we ate at The Screen Door on East Burnside in the PDX. It has soul! Because they serve southern soul food!
This place is great, though I already knew that. This place has a great atmosphere, great food and great staff, I knew all that too. The only problem with it is that we only eat there on Sunday nights.
This really isn’t a problem with the place, more a problem with us.
Anyways, I love it there and so does my family, and apparently so does everybody else.
The restaurant doesn’t open until 5:30 so we try to get there around 5:15 so we can get a table. We get there at the time we had planed minor miracle and there is already a line around the corner of the place!
Note: This was only surprising to me because I am usually at the HEAD of these lines not the middle. It was terrible...
When they open the doors, we do get seated right away, so not much waiting done while in the building. We get seated and get our water poured, and I swear we have the same waitress the same time. Which is nice it seems like all the same people are always there and it is wonderful to see.
We order our drinks, Mother a coffee with LOTS of cream, Father some kind of beer, and myself I ordered a Mint Julep... JK I wish, I ordered Hot Lips Soda in Black Berry. Drinks come fast which was surprising because the place was starting to get crazy. I had to ask for a new glass as the one I got at first was dirty. No biggie, our wonderful waitress brought a glass right away.
Next, we order our food. We start with the apps (appetizers), we ordered fried Okra, Pimento Cheese, Hush Puppies and (my parents ordered) the grody fried Chicken Livers, which was one of the specials.
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| Fried Okra |
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| Hush Puppies |
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| Pimento Cheese |
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| Fried Chicken Livers |
We had forgotten to order the Hush Puppies at first so ordered them a bit after app order went in, even so they showed up first. It seemed like seconds later the rest of our apps came in. Fast service, even though the place was jam-packed full of folks getting their dine on.
These apps were wonderful as always. Hush Puppies hot and spicy, Pimento Cheese, cold and delicious, the fried Okra was fried and tasty. And from what I heard the fried Chicken Livers were tasty as well. My mother thought they were too sweet my father, however, finished the whole plate.
When we were done with those we commented that we should just come and order the apps because we were already full.
Our food came next, my father ordered the fried Chicken with mashed potatoes and Collard Greens. My mother and I both order the Screen Door Plate which is any 3 side orders with some cornbread. Mother ordered Catfish, Collard Greens and Red Beans and Rice. I ordered the Catfish, mashed potatoes and mac & cheese.
The food was piled on, and it was a bit scary as my belly was still full from the apps.
My food was really great, nice and hot and could feed two people with no problems. The catfish was not as good as my fathers but for restaurant fish food it was way ahead of the game.
Our experience at The Screen Door was a great one, because everything was great; Great food, great people, great drinks, great smells, great everything!! I just wish my fam could get out and eat here more during the week maybe the Sunday crowd is the hottest and the other days suck (probably not).
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