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[DON'T ORDER ANYTHING] Navarre has a unique and enticing ordering system, a sheet that looks like a little shopping list, presented on a clipboard with a pen. This is a trap. Rather, you want to stroll into this nook off East Burnside Street, ask them to slice some bread off the massive levain dangling over the counter and tell the chef to choose for you, a comfort that runs only $32 per person. Hopefully, they'll bring you a T-bone-sized slab of the pork pâté, fresh beets with salted butter and, if still doing a partly Lebanese menu, some tabbouleh. Then, perhaps, the herby trout baked in parchment, braised green beans and a plate of drippingly tender hanger steak. Dessert will cost you extra, which might be why they keep a large selection of cakes and pies prominently displayed on the counter (all $6). If you wisely left everything to the chef, you'll probably want to leave those for the people with pens. MARTIN CIZMAR.
We had great luck splitting the $15 wine pairing, which was nicely matched to most courses and seemed to work out to about a glass each.
WWeek 2015