by Mercury EverOut Staff
Last year, while making my first visit to Everybody Eats PDX, I drove around the parking lot for nearly 20 minutes trying to find a sign or entrance for the new soul food spot. Eventually, I poked my head inside the Oriental Value Food grocery, and spotted a graffiti wall reading “Everybody Eats PDX.”
That’s where the titular lunch counter used to reside, inside a supermarket out on Southeast 173rd and Powell, which for a lot of us is a long trek for a plate of (albeit exceptional) comfort food. But last May, chef duo Marcell Goss and Johnny Huff Jr. moved into its first brick-and-mortar location in a coveted, high traffic Pearl District space that used to house Marinepolis Sushi Land.
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Everybody Eats Started on the Outer Eastside and Now It’s Here Bringing Chicken and Waffles and Seafood Mac ’n’ Cheese to the Heart of the Pearl District Everybody Eats co-owner Marcell Goss. iMAGE: Chris Nesseth. Updated 12:12 PM A few months back, this story would have started with a firm suggestion to mask up, take advantage of the relatively light pandemic traffic, and journey out to Southeast Powell and 172nd, where Johnny Huff Jr. and Marcell Goss of Everybody Eats had turned their catering company into a food stand, dishing out fish baskets, chicken and waffles, and seafood mac ‘n’ cheese at the Oriental Food Value supermarket.
Everybody Eats PDX Will Bring Ultimate Seafood Mac and Peach Cobbler Chicken and Waffles to the Pearl
Come for the Southern-meets-Pacific-Northwest cooking; stay for the atmosphere, the peach margaritas, and the community focus.
By
Katherine Chew Hamilton
2/18/2021 at 6:29pm
The Ultimate Seafood Mac is loaded with lobster, shrimp, and crab.
Everybody Eats, a restaurant from Johnny Huff Jr. and Marcell Goss, is moving across the river this month. The business, which got its start in catering in 2016, recently moved into its first brick-and-mortar in May 2020 inside the Oriental Value Food market on SE Powell and 172nd, offering takeout, counter service restaurant, and catering (though orders have been limited due to the pandemic). But with no street-facing presence, limited seating, and no full liquor license, the duo decided to move elsewhere to open the restaurant of their dreams.Â