Recommended: Poutine ($5)

This classic Québécois dish has become a kind of Holy Grail of the Portland food scene, and it’s always well worth the pilgrimage—and the indulgence. A heap of hand-cut, twice-fried, Belgian-style fries is strewn with Ellsworth Creamery cheese curds and doused in peppery, creamy, and (especially when those three sheets are blowing in the wind) mind-bending gravy.