Lorenzo's

OK Italian, not the best.. Best Italian food in PDX? I think not! Food was good, black linguine with sea food and putanesca, the location in trendy Mississippi Ave is OK, and the facilities are quaint. They want me to believe the best Italian food in PDX should be eaten with cheap flatware from the wholesale house, and paper napkins? What don't they understand about the experience that includes the food, the wait staff, the ambiance, and the table settings?…

Excellent Italian at very Reasonable Prices. We had a wonderful dinner here. We began with the cheese fondue and it was excellent. Then my wife had the raviolo and I had the linguini, and we were unable to decide which of the three dishes we liked best, as all were very deliciously prepared. All in all it was a very good experience, kind staff and the bill was too easy to absorb for such excellent food!

They need a photographer to re-shoot photos for their website, because it was far nicer in person than it looks on the site.

We will hope to return soon.…

Great sausage ragu!. Stopped in as we were cruising the neighborhood for dinner and they had one empty table. My son ordered a side of the sausage ragu and it was fantastic! They make their own sausage and the spices were perfect.

Our waiter was good and the other items we had -- a gnocci dish and a special orchetta with tuna --- were very nice. The torta with fruit for desert was not too sweet -- just right.…

Disappointing Experience, might try again.... We were drawn in by the atmosphere and tasty-looking menu. This seemed like my kind of Italian. I ordered the special: orriochette with garlic, spinach, and prosciutto. What I got was orriochette with garlic, broccoli rabe, and freaking BACON. It was very good, but it was swimming in oil and too salty, which made it impossible to finish.

The wine was good, but I don't love the tiny glass.

The whole experience might have been better if the staff cared more about their customers. As we waited and looked around for someone to 1, take our order, 2, ask how it was, 3 give us the check (this is all I ask of a server), we noticed people at all the other tables constantly looking around for help as well.

Maybe we came on a rough night. I may come back and try again some time, because the food really has potential.…