Magna Kubo was a Filipino restaurant in

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. Owner

Carlo Lamagna Carlo Lamagna is a chef and restaurateur in Portland, Oregon. He opened Magna Kusina in Portland, and the defunct Magna Kubo in Beaverton. See also * List of chefs * List of ''Chopped'' episodes (season 41–present) * List of restaurateu ...

and chef Kevin Balonso opened the restaurant in 2023, as an off-shoot of Lamagna's

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Magna Kusina Magna Kusina is a Filipino restaurant in Portland, Oregon. History Carlo Lamagna opened the restaurant in August 2019. The business planned to operate a stall in the food hall at Block 216, as of 2023. Instead, Sun Rice opened within the ...

. Magna Kubo specialized in

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-style meats and also served bistek, chicken wings, laing, and halo-halo. Despite garnering a positive reception and being named one of the

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's best new restaurants by '' The Oregonian'', Magna Kubo closed in 2024.

Description

The lechonería Magna Kubo operated at the intersection of Southwest Broadway Street and Southwest Hall Boulevard in Beaverton. Magna Kubo served Filipino cuisine such as

-style meats (including liempo, or pork belly), rice, and atchara with pickled carrot, onion, and garlic. The menu has also included barbecue ribs, bistek (marinated beef shoulder with star anise and garlic), wagyu beef sliders, laing (

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vegetables with shallots and chiles), fish, chicken wings, and halo-halo. For Beaverton Restaurant Week in 2023, Magna Kuba collaborated with Hapa Pizza to serve a pizza with shredded pork, Brussels sprouts, mozzarella, red sauce, cilantro, Thai basil, XO sauce and Caesar dressing. For Thanksgiving, a take-out menu included turkey breast marinated in lemongrass and annatto, adobo-braised, crab fat fried rice, sisig-style Brussels sprouts, and gailan with fermented shrimp paste.

History

Magna Kubo opened in June 2023, as a spin-off of the

restaurant

. Carlo Lamagna was a co-owner, and Kevin Balonso was the chef. Magna Kubo was among several new Filipino restaurants in the Portland metropolitan area. In 2024, Magna Kubo participated in Sobrang Sarap, a tour of sixteen Filipino food businesses in the area, and was a vendor at the Oregon AAPI Food and Wine Fest in Dayton, Oregon. Magna Kubo closed permanently in mid 2024.

Reception

Magna Kubo ranked ninth in ''The Oregonian'' list of best new restaurants of 2023. The newspaper's Michael Russell called the halo-halo "outrageously good". Katherine Chew Hamilton included the halo-halo in ''Portland Monthly'' overview of the city's ten best dishes of 2023. Krista Garcia included Magna Kubo in '' Eater Portland'' 2024 list of recommended eateries for Filipino food in the metropolitan area. She and Janey Wong also included Magna Kubo in a 2024 list of nineteen Beaverton eateries "making the Portland suburb a dining destination".

References

{{reflist 2023 establishments in Oregon 2024 disestablishments in Oregon Defunct Asian restaurants in Oregon Filipino restaurants in the United States Restaurants disestablished in 2024 Restaurants established in 2023 Restaurants in Beaverton, Oregon