This hearty bowl of sweet, spicy, and salty broth packs a punch with daikon and cabbage kimchi, tofu, onions, cilantro, and a side of rice to soak it all up.
2Kimchi Stew ($12)
This hearty bowl of sweet, spicy, and salty broth packs a punch with daikon and cabbage kimchi, tofu, onions, cilantro, and a side of rice to soak it all up.
3Oxtail Curry Sandwich ($11)
Johanna Ware’s headlining dish, a superbly spiced oxtail and coconut curry with scotch bonnet sauce, gets a makeover on the lunch menu care of a toasty bun and satisfying side of paper-thin plantain chips.
4Oxtail Curry Sandwich ($11)
Johanna Ware’s headlining dish, a superbly spiced oxtail and coconut curry with scotch bonnet sauce, gets a makeover on the lunch menu care of a toasty bun and satisfying side of paper-thin plantain chips.
5"Steak and Eggs" ($14)
Brunch meets bibimbap in this creamy, sweet, and savory bowl layered with warm rice, tender hanger steak, sweet chili sauce, a just-right fried egg, and a dollop of creme fraiche.
6"Steak and Eggs" ($14)
Brunch meets bibimbap in this creamy, sweet, and savory bowl layered with warm rice, tender hanger steak, sweet chili sauce, a just-right fried egg, and a dollop of creme fraiche.
7Crispy Chicken Curry ($12)
Creamy peanut curry blankets chicken with crispy skin intact and gets a generous sprinkle of sweet peanuts and tarragon cabbage slaw.
8Crispy Chicken Curry ($12)
Creamy peanut curry blankets chicken with crispy skin intact and gets a generous sprinkle of sweet peanuts and tarragon cabbage slaw.
9Fried 6 Minute Egg ($2)
This happy hour favorite is a welcome $2 side at lunch, offering up a decadent golden yolk spiked with spicy Chinese mustard.
10Fried 6 Minute Egg ($2)
This happy hour favorite is a welcome $2 side at lunch, offering up a decadent golden yolk spiked with spicy Chinese mustard.
Johanna Ware’s Northeast Fremont hideaway is reining in its fair share of Restaurant of the Year accolades, but its solid lunch service (served Mon-Fri starting at 11:30 am) is still flying under the radar. Smallwares offers a quirky and downright delicious “inauthentic” Asian dishes with artful arrangements and unexpected ingredients, praised by Portland Monthly’s Karen Brooks for its successful “rethinking of dinner, Asian cult foods, and Oregon larder all at once.” Now that the space is offering midday dishes like kimchi stew and oxtail curry sandwiches, it’s time to add “weekday lunch” to that list. (All photos by Allison Jones)
