Screen Door (restaurant) facts for kids
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The original restaurant's front exterior in 2010
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| Current owner(s) | David Mouton (co-owner) |
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| Street address | 2337 E. Burnside Street |
| City | Portland |
| County | Multnomah |
| State | Oregon |
| Postal/ZIP code | 97214 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 45°31′23″N 122°38′30″W / 45.52310°N 122.64171°W |
Screen Door is a popular Southern and soul food restaurant with two locations in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
Description
Screen door is a popular Southern and soul food restaurant with two locations in Portland, Oregon. The original restaurant is located at 2337 E. Burnside Street in the Kerns neighborhood. In 2021, a second location opened in northwest Portland's Pearl District.
Screen Door's specialty is crispy buttermilk-battered fried chicken, sometimes accompanied with sweet potato waffles. The menu also includes biscuits, fried green tomatoes, grits, macaroni and cheese, po' boy, pulled pork, and brisket; weekend brunch features Bananas Foster French toast and biscuits and gravy (sausage or vegetarian). The restaurant's hushpuppy recipe has been published by The Washington Post, and subsequently other outlets.
Screen Door often has a queue line. According to co-owner David Mouton, the restaurant can host as many as 500 customers per weekend. Wait times are sometimes shared via voicemail. Screen Door warns guests, "Good fried chicken takes time. Please consider this when ordering."
History
In 2013, the restaurant's head chef Rick Widmayer left after serving for six years, citing "creative differences". He said, "We'd had some creative clashes over the years and it finally got to the point where I wanted more freedom to experiment and to grow. Screen Door has such a rigid concept and criteria: over-the-top Southern…there's no room for change." Screen Door opened a second location in the Pearl District in 2021.
