Go in and tell them, "Channing Frye sent me," and they'll give you a free appetizer with the purchase of an entree. Only at the 16th St location.

This food is flat out off the chain, can I be honest? The best ingredients, it's tough to find some specific fresh ingredients around AZ but this place definitely has my tongue doing backflips in joy. Flat out good.

When I talk about ambiance, I don't Iike places where I feel like if I get up I have to get a can opener to get me out of my little area, but with spacious open tables it was extremely accommodating, not to mention the fact that everything is so open between the outside and inside. Perfect. I mean, perfect date place and if it's too cold for your lady friend they will sit you next to a fireplace, which is perfect, on the little couches they have for some over the top PDA (if that's your style).

Please, if you get a chance get the Mrs. Take her to Prado and/or bring you and a couple buddies, grab a table, and enjoy the culinary excursion that Prado takes you on. I know after the season is over I'll be there at least twice a day, every day.

You got a little concert? Let us know what kind of music. Your reading poetry...where is it? You have a car club, what parking lot? I'll roll the “BLACK PEARL” and see how if I can cruise too.

So people, let me know I'm interested. I know Portland always has something going on - rain, sleet or snow - what's going on in Phoenix?

To give you a little background of why we even went there was because we watch this show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and my wife LOVES the off the beaten path type places to eat. She saw it, looked it up, and was like, we have to try it out.

Now, I know by this time you're at the edge of your seat in anticipation for what could possibly get my taste buds doing the chicken noodle soup dance. People, it's CHINESE AND MEXICAN. Together. BOOM! That just happened.

I can not even hope to explain to you how good this food is. I love Mexican food (of course I grew up 1 block from a Filibertos (carne asada w/rice). Man, let me tell you, if you have a chance to go there -- look, they let you try out the stuff. I was sold on the black beans and, yes, they are the musical fruit.

All gas aside, the place goes down on my list as all time best. If I wasn’t on a semi sorta strict diet, I would definitely eat there every day hands down. Here's a link if you live in PHX and haven’t tried it. http://www.chinobandido.com/

I'll say this is more exciting than going to the Grand Canyon and you'll be full when you leave. So check it out. More reviews to come.

Plus, I have a challenge for Portland restaurants: I have now had THE best steak sandwich from Rip City Grille and I want to know if anyone thinks they have one that can compete. I could eat this sandwich every single day and be totally happy with it. Anyone got something better?

Deliver Dish from the first night I stayed in Portland has been my savior for all my food needs. I can honestly say I order from there more than I go to restaurants. This is gonna be a quick blog post because I feel like if you have never tried d-dish.com -- I just gave you the website -- try it out and let me know how you like it.

Sorry that I haven't been writing a lot of stuff. I've taken a break from it but I have a lot of great videos and blogs to show y'all soon. Thanks for visiting my site.

What would you do to help make PO better?

Well, since I prefaced this whole story, already I received an email from a fan who had a great question. I was asked a few weeks ago about the Sam Adams “controversy." For everyone who doesn’t know, Sam Adams was the Mayor of Portland and resigned due to an issue with his “supposed” underage gentlemen. He is gay; he was actually the 1st gay mayor of a top 30 state in America. Well, anyway, they asked me about the whole situation and my answer was “ewwww.” Of course, me being who I am, I didn’t think of how that was going to come across because they didn’t preface it that Sam Adams is a 47-year old man and that was the reason I said eww. It had nothing to do with him being gay. I couldn't care less -- gay, straight, bi, whatever -- he could be a dang king of the L.A.R.P.ing community; if he is doing what he needs to do for the city of Portland and the state of Oregon, I'm cool with it.

I am not a homophobe. Live and let live. But that brings me to my subject of this whole little blog entry. I appreciate the person who sent me that email asking to clarify what he read because in today's age, things get lost in translation and I open the public up to ask me whatever they want. Of course, I'm gonna not answer a lot of questions having to do with either my personal life or my teammates' personal lives, but I really want this to be a forum for people to be able to get closer and to have a deeper insight on not only how we think or live as professional athletes, but a better way that we can continue this great relationship between the athletes of Portland and the fans.