Magna Kubo

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Magna Kubo
Restaurant information
EstablishedJune 2023 (2023-06)
Closed2024 (2024)
Owner(s) Carlo Lamagna
ChefKevin Balonso
Food type Filipino
Street address12406 Southwest Broadway Street
City Beaverton
State Oregon
Postal/ZIP Code97005
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°29′14″N122°48′15″W / 45.4873°N 122.8042°W / 45.4873; -122.8042

Magna Kubo was a Filipino restaurant in Beaverton, Oregon. [1] Owner Carlo Lamagna and chef Kevin Balonso opened the restaurant in 2023, as an off-shoot of Lamagna's Portland eatery Magna Kusina. Magna Kubo specialized in rotisserie-style meats and also served bistek, chicken wings, laing, and halo-halo. Despite garnering a positive reception and being named one of the metropolitan area's best new restaurants by The Oregonian , Magna Kubo closed in 2024.

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Description

The lechonería Magna Kubo operated at the intersection of Southwest Broadway Street and Southwest Hall Boulevard in Beaverton. [2] [3] Magna Kubo served Filipino cuisine such as rotisserie-style meats [4] (including liempo, or pork belly), rice, and atchara with pickled carrot, onion, and garlic. The menu has also included barbecue ribs, [5] bistek (marinated beef shoulder with star anise and garlic), [6] wagyu beef sliders, laing (coconut milk-braised vegetables with shallots and chiles), [7] [8] fish, [9] chicken wings, and halo-halo. [10]

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. [11] [12] 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. [13]

History

Magna Kubo opened in June 2023, as a spin-off of the Portland restaurant Magna Kusina. [14] [15] Carlo Lamagna was a co-owner, and Kevin Balonso was the chef. [16] Magna Kubo was among several new Filipino restaurants in the Portland metropolitan area. [17] [18] [19]

In 2024, Magna Kubo participated in Sobrang Sarap, a tour of sixteen Filipino food businesses in the area, [20] [21] [22] and was a vendor at the Oregon AAPI Food and Wine Fest in Dayton, Oregon. [23]

Magna Kubo closed permanently in mid 2024. [2] [24]

Reception

Magna Kubo ranked ninth in The Oregonian 's list of best new restaurants of 2023. [16] [25] The newspaper's Michael Russell called the halo-halo "outrageously good". [26] Katherine Chew Hamilton included the halo-halo in Portland Monthly 's overview of the city's ten best dishes of 2023. [27] Krista Garcia included Magna Kubo in Eater Portland 's 2024 list of recommended eateries for Filipino food in the metropolitan area. [10] She and Janey Wong also included Magna Kubo in a 2024 list of nineteen Beaverton eateries "making the Portland suburb a dining destination". [28]

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