{"id":4747,"date":"2010-12-22T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2010-12-22T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:07:23","slug":"portland-or-serratto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=4747","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; Serratto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Been here before, at the end of an overindulgent day, but just noshed on snacks outside, hadn&#8217;t been in. \u00a0Was wasting time before an appointment today, thought I would have lunch, didn&#8217;t really have a burger in mind, and after looking at the menu, asked for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paintedhillsnaturalbeef.com\/\">Painted Hills<\/a> beef French Dip. \u00a0Oops &#8211; said that it wouldn&#8217;t be ready til 1230 (it was 1145). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4750\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/serrato2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4750\" title=\"Serratto Portland\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/serrato2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Serratto Portland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serratto Portland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>I thought about waiting, after all, I did have a plate of crusty bread, olive oil, and a NYT puzzle in front of me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But my ADD kicked in, and I did go with a burger, it was Painted Hills beef as well, which I generally have had no complaints about, anywhere in this god-forsaken burg we live in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So for $10, Serratto offers the burger as follows: \u00a0brioche, white cheddar, bacon, bbq sauce, crispy fried onions, pommes frites, and the description is almost \u00a0accurate down to a &#8220;T&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I wouldn&#8217;t have been speed reading, I would have asked them to skip the BBQ sauce. \u00a0The menu didn&#8217;t say there was aioli on the bottom bun, and chef, if you are reading this, offer the patty liberally slathered with the aioli, lose the bbq sauce, and you&#8217;ll have a real winner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The fries? \u00a0Eh, not so much. \u00a0Overcooked and greasy at the same time, however that can happen. \u00a0And it seems like that was one of the items I was so enamored with last visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4751\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/serrato1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4751   \" title=\"Serratto Portland Painted Hills Burger\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/serrato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Serratto Portland Painted Hills Burger\" width=\"393\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serratto Portland Painted Hills Burger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/1498234\/restaurant\/Nob-Hill-Uptown\/Seratto-Portland\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1498234\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Seratto on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been here before, at the end of an overindulgent day, but just noshed on snacks outside, hadn&#8217;t been in. \u00a0Was wasting time before an appointment today, thought I would have lunch, didn&#8217;t really have a burger in mind, and after looking at the menu, asked for the Painted Hills beef French Dip. \u00a0Oops &#8211; said&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=4747\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland, OR &#8211; Serratto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,16],"tags":[770,2486,2747,2816,2848,3176,3177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}