Everyone still orders the wonderful sugo di carne over penne pasta, hunky shreds of wine-braised beef and earth perfumes. The food (pastas, salads, fresh mozz and tomatoes, a bistecca) is what it always was: a taste of ’90s-era San Francisco Italian, not spectacular but a solid pleasure comfortable in its own skin. Our Mercato is open Caffe Mingo is a small Italian restaurant with big Italian flavors in the heart of Portland.
Cameron Winery’s famed (and famously eccentric) owner John Paul is so at home that he merely walks in, grabs a key, and puts his own bottles in the cooler. Caffe Mingo Nob Hill/Uptown Menu - View the Menu for Caffe Mingo Portland on Zomato for Delivery, Dine-out or Takeaway, Caffe Mingo menu and prices. 811 NW 21st Ave Portland, OR 97209 Caffe Mingo offers simple Italian food made with local, northwest ingredients from our organic farmers and our long-time cooks. Mingo is always true to its Mingo-ness: snug wood tables, angular bar, and lots of happy petals from nearby Sammy’s Flowers. Caffe Mingo Is a Portland Restaurant Success Story 25 Years in the Making The city’s food scene ought to take notes from a pair of cool old pasta dudes on NW 21st Avenue. Sure, the hour-wait crowds have decamped, but eating at Caffe Mingo remains a vivacious experience. There’s never a whiff of calcified cuisine or desperate gimmicks here. The Cronan continuum holds lessons for any up-and-coming chef or restaurateur who’d want to listen-especially as Portland’s scene slides into wild inconsistency and “borderless cuisine” confusion. Just look for the guy whose bicep has a Caffe Mingo tattoo, a staff gift for Cronan’s 70th birthday. Or, catch him steps away at Caffe Mingo, which looks like a still-life of a kitchen that cares, with its veal bone paintings, onion crates parked in the dining room, and good Italian wine bottles everywhere. Caffe Mingo / Bar Mingo / 807 NW 21 ST AVE, NORTHWEST 503/2264646 811 NW 21 ST AVE, NORTHWEST 503/4454646 Caffe Mingo has been a popular choice. It’s a house of marble tables, living room couches, and lasagna good enough to hang in a museum. His résumé includes the long-gone Delfina’s, the OG ’80s watering hole where Gus Vant Sant and Will Vinton held court and diners wondered at this strange green stuff called “pesto.” Today, with his thick art glasses and retina-searing red watch, Cronan holds forth at his enduring gem Bar Mingo most nights. First, the space next door to the well-loved Caffe Mingo became available, and it was impossible to. Cronan’s territory is NW 21st Avenue, between Kearney and Lovejoy, where he’s masterminded three Italian-food hangouts of note. Bar Mingo was developed for two, actually three reasons.
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