Love Belizean

By Aaron Mesh

1503 SW Broadway, 421-5599. Lunch and early dinner Monday-Friday.

Tiffany Love, founder of this erstwhile food cart and the subject of its central pun, has essentially opened a tropical travel agency in Portland State's South Park Blocks. The atmosphere inside is persuasively Caribbean, due less to the Mayan pyramid mural than to the aroma of marinating meats. The Belizean chicken is the mainstay, but look for the pulled pork—the best I've had in Portland, swimming in a rich bath of spices that in turn soaks into a bed of coconut rice. On Fridays, Love offers both meats on one plate for $10—including a choice of salad (pick arugula) with two fresh lime slices. Love is real.

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