{"id":5478,"date":"2011-03-28T04:37:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2011-03-28T04:37:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:37:56","slug":"portland-mactarnahans-taproom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; MacTarnahan&#8217;s Taproom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5482\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/taproom-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5482\" title=\"McTarnahan's Taproom, Portland\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/taproom-png-300x228.png\" alt=\"McTarnahan's Taproom, Portland\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McTarnahan&#39;s Taproom, Portland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mrs. Burgerdogboy and I frequently &#8216;challenge&#8217; each other when we ask the other &#8220;what do you want for dinner?&#8221; I&#8217;ll say something silly like &#8220;Steak Tartare from a little bistro in Paris,&#8221; and so on, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last nite when I asked her, she replied &#8220;Shepherd&#8217;s Pie,&#8221; and I thought, &#8220;yes, that would be good,&#8221; but didn&#8217;t really feel like making it (I would have to go to the store), and didn&#8217;t know of any place I could grab some and go.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As usual, when our household is stumped on puzzlers like this, I turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/d-dish.com\/\">Delivered Dish <\/a>for the solution. And although you cannot search DD by a specific entree (please add that!), you can get lists of different cuisine, and after a bit of searching, I found her craving at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macsbeer.com\/\">MacTarnahan&#8217;s Taproom <\/a>in NW.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now i just had to find something on their menu for me&#8230;which didn&#8217;t take long, I went with the pastrami Reuben, with the special request to leave the usual thousand island dressing in their kitchen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I ordered at 5:05P, received my email confirmation immediately, and they promised delivery by 6:30P.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They arrived instead at 5:45, Delivered Dish, you are my heroes! We love you guys!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The &#8220;Shepherd&#8217;s Pie&#8221; on the menu was described as &#8220;Scottish Pie&#8221;, and &#8216;savory meats, mashed potatoes, cheddar cheese accompanied by seasonal vegetables&#8217;, and Mrs. BDB couldn&#8217;t have been more pleased with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Reuben was hefty, and a huge serving of garlic\/rosemary fries was included.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We split a small caesar salad which was also good. Total including delivery and tip? $35.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Great home cooking without the effort or clean up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/menus\/\">Menu posted here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5483\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/taproom2-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5483 \" title=\"McTarnahan's Taproom, Portland\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/taproom2-png.png\" alt=\"McTarnahan's Taproom, Portland\" width=\"448\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McTarnahan&#39;s Taproom, Portland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/282172\/restaurant\/Northwest\/MacTarnahans-Taproom-Portland\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/282172\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"MacTarnahan's Taproom on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Mrs. Burgerdogboy and I frequently &#8216;challenge&#8217; each other when we ask the other &#8220;what do you want for dinner?&#8221; I&#8217;ll say something silly like &#8220;Steak Tartare from a little bistro in Paris,&#8221; and so on, you get the idea. Last nite when I asked her, she replied &#8220;Shepherd&#8217;s Pie,&#8221; and I thought, &#8220;yes,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=5478\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland, OR &#8211; MacTarnahan&#8217;s Taproom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[1131,1157,2187,2188,2596,2794,2795,2869,3184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478"}],"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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}