Jojo (restaurant)

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Jojo
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Exterior of the Pearl District location, 2022
Jojo (restaurant)
Restaurant information
Owner(s)Justin Hintze
City Portland
State Oregon
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°29′47″N122°37′36″W / 45.4965°N 122.6268°W / 45.4965; -122.6268
Website jojopdx.com

Jojo (also known as Jojo Food Truck and Jojo PDX) is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon. [1] [2] Established by Justin Hintze in 2018, the business operates in southeast Portland's Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood and northwest Portland's Pearl District.

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Description

Jojo operates from a food cart in southeast Portland's Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood and a brick and mortar space in northwest Portland's Pearl District. [3] The business specializes in fried chicken sandwiches. [4] The menu has also included biscuits and gravy and milkshakes. [5]

History

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The food truck's exterior in 2021
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The restaurant's jojos in 2021

Justin Hintze, a former real estate agent, [4] opened Jojo in Sellwood in October 2018. [6] The food cart relocated to a pod on Southwest Powell in 2019. [6] Jojo became known for its social media posts in 2019. [7] In late 2019, Jojo and Vietnamese cart Matta collaborated to launch Chơi Luôn, a restaurant within the cocktail bar Lulu. [8]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jojo offered free meals to children, restaurant workers, [9] [10] and hospital workers. [11] In April, when Jojo reopened after a temporary closure, the business offered free sandwiches to all who asked. [12]

In 2021, Hintze confirmed plans to open a sibling brick and mortar restaurant in the Pearl District. [13] [14] The restaurant opened on September 15, 2022. [15] [16] [17] Jojo also caters large events. [18]

Reception

In 2019, Jojo was a Food Cart of the Year finalist in Eater Portland 's Eater Awards. The website's Brooke Jackson-Glidden wrote, "Jojo stands out as a Portland icon for its social media alone, but luckily this Creston-Kenilworth cart’s hulking fried chicken sandwiches are similarly obsession-inducing. Owner Justin Hintze doesn’t hold back with spice, sauce, or smoke, topping chicken with potato salad and sambal mayo on a crisped bun, with a side of crispy-crackly jojos for gut-busting good measure." [19]

In 2020, Nick Woo and Alex Frane included Jojo in the website's lists of 14 "outstanding" fried chicken sandwiches in the city and 14 "excellent" sandwich shops in Portland, respectively. [20] Jojo was included in several Eater Portland lists in 2021, including Woo and Nick Townsend's 14 "real-deal" fried chicken restaurants in Portland, [21] Krista Garcia's 10 "chicken-and-jojo champs" in the city, [22] Woo and Jackson-Glidden's 15 "outstanding" food carts in Portland, [23] Daniel Barnett and Garcia's 17 "mind-blowing" burgers in the metropolitan area, [24] and Jackson-Glidden's 38 "essential" Portland restaurants and food carts. [25] In 2023, Nathan Williams included Jojo in an overview of recommended eateries in the Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood, [26] and Waz Wu included the business in an overview of "top-notch" vegan Burgers in the city. [27] Jojo was included in the website's 2025 list of Portland's best brunch restaurants. [28]

Portland Monthly included Jojo in a 2021 overview of "The Best Fried Chicken in Portland". [29] Michael Russell included the restaurant in The Oregonian 's 2023 list of Portland's ten best new brunches. [30]

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  2. ↑ Singer, Matthew (2021-05-05). "In Just Two Years, the Jojo Fried Chicken Sandwich Has Become a Portland Classic". Willamette Week . Archived from the original on 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  3. ↑ "Review: Portland's Jojo Gets a Glow-Up in the Pearl". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on 2023-04-04. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
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