808 Grinds Cafe

By Matthew Korfhage

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10100 SW Park Way, 477-9976; Southwest 9th Avenue and Washington Street (cart), 713-8008; 808grinds.com. Lunch and dinner Monday-Saturday, lunch Monday-Friday at the downtown cart.

In a tucked-away location in a Cedar Hills strip mall—often hidden behind its own mobile catering truck—808 Grinds serves up tasty garlic furikake fries, kalbi ribs and its trademark fried chicken. Those fries ($4) are somehow perfect comfort food—although I am biased, deeply nostalgic for the furikake rice I used to share each meal with my islander roommate in college. But what elevates the new Cedar Hills cafe over the cart are dishes like the kalbi ribs ($11) and those sweetly smoked, tender-inside chicken quarters served with rice and mac for a mere $9.50.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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