Besaw's is definitely one of the best brunch place located in Northwest Portland. It used to be on the 23rd Street, but it has moved to its brand new location located on 21st street at the main floor of a brand new condominium complex. The parking in the area is not too bad. There is a lot of street parking available. However, there is quite a few new construction in the area building new luxury condo, so make sure to only park at allowed area.
We got to Besaw's around noon and there was a small waiting list. We put down our name and were given a free coffee coupon to its sister restaurant just beside Besaw's. This is quite nice of them. Its sister restaurant is Solo Club and we chilled at Solo Club while waiting for our seats at Besaw's to be ready. You can read more about our Solo Club experience here. After 20 minutes, Besaw's sent a text to inform us that the seats are ready.
Besaw's offers various type of seating arrangement. Customers can sit at the bar, at the regular dining table, or at the chef's table. We got the seats at the chef's table. The experience at the chef's table was quite unique. We were able to see the chefs preparing the food since Besaw's has open kitchen concept. Since we were sitting so close to the chefs, we were also able to ask the chef some questions about the food and the recommendations that he has for the day. This time we ordered a Lychee Tickle drink, Avocado Toast, and a 2 Egg Breakfast Meal.
The Lychee Tickle drink is a non-alcoholic drink. It tastes like lemonade soda with some spicy taste. The spicy taste is most likely coming from the ginger beer. Thus it has this ginger-like spiciness to it. In addition, instead of using regular maple syrup or honey, lychee syrup is used for making this drink. We were trying to figure out the uniqueness of lychee syrup in the drink, but we could not tell the difference. We didn't really find any lychee taste in this drink. Also, we find the drink to have too much ice in it. About 80% of the glass was filled with ice cubes. Thus this was a bit disappointing to us.
After the drink is served, here comes the main course of the meal. Avocado Toast was one of the recommended dish. We loved this dish! The softness of avocado combined with the crunchiness of walnut just makes a perfect texture. With horseradish creme glazed over the toast makes this dish to have a slight spiciness but fits perfectly into this dish. The smoked trout is also cooked perfectly and chewy.
The 2 Egg Breakfast meal comes with 2 egg at your choice, whole grain toast, baked potatoes, and beef brisket. Baked potatoes and beef brisket can be swapped with other stuff at your choice. I chose to have my egg done as scrambled egg. Besaw's did a great job to the scrambled egg. The egg was not over cooked at all. It was tender and juicy. The toast is just toast and comes with creme cheese and blueberry jam. We had high expectation to beef brisket. The beef brisket has a lot of flavor, but it is just not my type of taste. The best part of this dish is the baked potatoes. This baked potatoes is amazing. We think that the baked potatoes were baked twice or something like that. The baked potatoes were both soft and crunchy with a lot of flavor.
Overall, this was an amazing brunch and Besaw's definitely has a lot to offer to brunch lovers. We highly recommend this place to people who have not been to Besaw's.
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