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Fearless Critic restaurant review
Food
8.0
Feel
7.5
Price
$25
Bijou Café
Lunch, good—breakfast, better
American
Casual restaurant

Hours
Mon–Fri 7:00am–2:00pm
Sat–Sun 8:00am–2:00pm

Bar Beer, wine
Credit cards Visa, MC
Reservations Not accepted

Downtown
132 SW 3rd Ave.
Portland, OR
(503) 222-3187

Perhaps thanks in part to a Frommer’s shout-out, Bijou is the darling of a breakfast-crazed town, a sort of down-home girl next door at the moment of her big Hollywood discovery. It looks unassuming in its old brick corner building, with a benign color palette inside that suggests egg whites…

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