There’s a lot going on at the corner of SE 22nd Ave. and Powell Blvd. The outside of the building features a colorful mural and a sign for Big Daddy’s Badass Bento, while around the corner is Big Daddy’s CBD. Inside is a kitchen producing Southern-Asian fusion, a playroom available for hire for special events and enough sports memorabilia to fill a museum.
Overseeing all this is owner Steve Anderson, “Big Daddy” himself. Anderson said he knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur in the eighth grade. Since he moved to Portland in 1991, he has opened three restaurants, owned cellphone stores and a golf store, has been catering weddings and festivals for 20 years and has been a restaurant consultant.

Ellen Spitaleri - The Southeast Examiner