Tails & Trotters

By Matthew Korfhage

525 NE 24th Ave., 477-8682, tailsandtrotters.com. Lunch Monday-Saturday.

Tails & Trotters is best known as a butcher shop, but it serves up an array of sandwiches characterized by loving attention to its trademark pork. The baseline pulled pork is loosely Eastern-style (although there are special rotating versions), with peppery vinegar sauce and a housemade garlic aioli (which, in North Carolina, they might call mayonnaise), and some seriously tender and sweet hazelnut-fed pork. The bun is a fresh bakery roll, not a big, soft piece of white-bread hamburger bun, but OK. You make yourself willing to accept high quality. There's also a Reuben made with porkstrami that's more tender than beef knows how to be.

Check out Willamette Week's 2016 Cheap Eats guide here.

Willamette Week

Explore more on:

ce2016ce2016-directoryCheap EatsMeatporkTails & Trotters

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.

Willamette Week’s Monthly Donor Drive is on! When you support WW, you help keep Portland's leaders accountable. Our journalism costs money and as a small, locally owned, free publication, we rely on reader support rather than corporate dollars.

Become a Monthly Donor!

Support Us