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Castagna vs Jake's Famous Crawfish
Both restaurants are rated highly by travel writers. On balance, Castagna scores marginally better than Jake's Famous Crawfish. Castagna comes in at 85 with approval from 10 reviewers such as Travel + Leisure, Not For Tourists and Gayot.
Castagna
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Frommer's
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1752 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214
From $8 /night
Fodor's
"Enjoy artful new Northwest cuisine—like sturgeon with brown butter, lemon, and parsley, or aged lamb with black carrots and lemon thyme—at this at this tranquil Hawthorne restaurant."
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Frommer's
"The dining room, always exceedingly stark, got a warmer and cozier (yet still minimalist) remodel, and the menu now is like nothing else in town."
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Travel + Leisure
"The comfort-food restaurant's been around for a while, but it has a young new chef who trained at Mugaritz, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Spain."
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Zagat
""Brilliant" chef Justin Woodward tinkers with one of the city's most "intriguing menus", an "amazing modernist take on Northwest ingredients and flavors"."
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Gayot
14.0
"Chef Justin Woodward maintains Castagna's enthusiasm for playing with food conventions."
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Jake's Famous Crawfish
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401 SW 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97205-2303
From $10 /night
Fodor's
"Diners have been enjoying fresh Pacific Northwest seafood in Jake's warren of wood-paneled dining rooms for more than a century."
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Travel + Leisure
"The namesake seafood — crawfish — is available from April to October and comes from central Oregon."
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Zagat
4.3
"This "legendary Portland seafood palace" is "still delivering the goods" after 100-plus years in its "clubby" Downtown digs."
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Gayot
13.0
"Established in 1892, Jake's has a patina of burnished woods and deep colors, as well as a polished panache."
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DK Eyewitness
"A Portland institution and tourist destination, this 1892 fish house boasts nearly three dozen kinds of fresh fish and seafood daily."
