Best Day Ever: OG Portlander Jordan Schnitzer

🥞 For breakfast, he loves the Original Pancake House on Barbur Boulevard.

• "Those German pancakes literally melt in your mouth," he told Axios.

🎌 Next, Schnitzer drops by Portland Japanese Garden, where he served on the board for 20 years.

• "They have a way of manicuring everything to perfection to make it look like only Mother Nature's hand was involved."

🍜 Lunch is at The Boiling Bowl on NW 21st Avenue.

• "It's a little hidden jewel."
• His other nearby lunch option is Kingston Bar & Grill near Providence Park, where he goes for a bacon cheeseburger.

🐟 If he has out-of-town visitors, he takes them to the Bonneville Hatchery to see Herman the Sturgeon.

🍔 Then, Schnitzer takes his sons, ages 6 and 8, to taekwondo, swimming and rock climbing at the Multnomah Athletic Club.

• Afterward, they sometimes go to the Skyline Restaurant, the 1935 diner in the west hills, for barbecue bacon cheeseburgers.

🌭 For dinner, he prefers the classics — at Nick's Famous Coney Island he gets the frankfurter and chili. He started going there in high school and returned last month and said it hasn't changed.

• He was in a suit and tie but no one minded.
• "It feels so neighborly and there's a sense of connection to being a Portlander."