Portland has a reputation for being a foodie town. People eat out very frequently, and those who can cook hold dinner parties. There is also an insane number of food carts in Portland, and lots of people will visit food carts on a regular basis.National chains, like Olive Garden or Dennyu2019s, donu2019t get very much business within Portland (although the ones in outlying towns like Gresham or Beaverton do well). Itu2019s become something of a joke, and thoroughly lampooned in the show Portlandia, that Portlanders will wait in line for hours, outside, in the rain, to go to small, boutique cafes with mediocre food, especially if the cafes have hip one-word names like u201cToastu201d or u201cJamu201d or u201cTortasu201d (all actual places).There are several places in Portland (some of them those hip boutiques) that have national renown. Bunk has been credited as having the best sandwiches in the country. Iu2019m blessed enough to live half a block from Tortalandia, some of the best unabashedly northwestern quasi-latin fare you can find. I donu2019t like Voodoo Doughnuts, but itu2019s world famous, as is Salt & Straw ice cream.Oh, and I feel that I have to point out the strip clubs. Portlanders go out to eat at strip clubs. I donu2019t really have an easy way to explain this. Right now thereu2019s quite a bit of contention between Acrop and Dusk Til Dawn, which are, respectively a strip club steakhouse and a vegan strip club across the street from each other. In other towns, people protest the sexualization of strip clubs. Here, strip club patrons protest competing strip clubsu2024 menu selections.