Wolf & Bear's

By Matthew Korfhage

113 SE 28th Ave., 453-2872; Southwest 10th Avenue between Alder and Washington streets, 810-0671; 3925 N Mississippi Ave., 453-5044; eatwolfandbears.com. Lunch daily all locations, dinner nightly at the 28th and Mississippi locations.

Finally recovered from Jerry Seinfeld's visit last year, Wolf and Bear's is back to business as usual: making the finest falafel in town, with an array of options limited only by the number of 50-cent ingredient upgrades you want to add to your basic pita ($.7.50), sabich breakfast sandwich with hard-boiled egg and mango puree ($7.50) or the unbridled masterpiece, the olea ($7.50), which pairs a pungent kalamata tapenade with caramalized walnuts and Gorgonzola for a can't-miss condiment atop eggplant and red pepper. It is hellishly good even before you throw a couple of those consistently perfect falafel balls into the fluffy pita. Then it is heavenly.

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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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