Bar Guide 2013 4-4-2 1739 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 238-3693, 442soccerbar.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday, 11 am-11 pm Tuesday-Thursday, 11 am-midnight Friday, 7 am-midnight Saturday, 8 am-10 pm Sunday. When 4-4-2 opened i ... More

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Bar Guide 2013 Taverns Dubiously Tavernous The Woodsman Tavern 4537 SE Division St., 971-373-8264, woodsmantavern.com Is calling a swanky place a tavern good for business? The minimal drinking snacks are a cute ... More

Bar Guide 2013 7 am  $1.99 for two eggs, hash browns and toast at the Cheerful Tortoise, 1939 SW 6th Ave., 224-3377. 8 am  $2.75 well drinks at the The Commodore (pg. 34). 9 am  $2 for two eac ... More

Bar Guide 2013 North Bar Crawl Red Fox 5128 N Albina Ave., 282-2934, redfoxpdx.com. 3 pm-1:30 am daily. Happy hour: Food specials and $1 off beer and well 3-6 pm daily. Happy hour at Red Fox starts at 3 pm. Thi ... More

Bar Guide 2013 COCKTAIL BARSBarwares4605 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com. 5 pm-1 am daily.Barwares exists only because of an architectural fluke. Chef Johanna Ware’s Asian-leaning restaurant, ... More

Bar Guide 2013 After long marches through Portland’s bars, pubs, lounges, taverns and brewpubs, we’ve come to believe that bars age a lot like the wine or whiskey served at them. Only a few are at their ve ... More

Bar Guide 2013 Rare that a name is as felicitous as Victory Bar’s. Willamette Week’s first-ever Bar of the Year isn’t shiny or new or even particularly fashionable. It’s just a goddamn winner. The bar came ... More

Bar Guide 2013 There’s never been anything quite like Hale Pele in Portland.  Tiki bars are, of course, nothing new here. This town has long had respectable versions of the Singapore Sling-slinging Polyn ... More

Bar Guide 2013 It’s 9:30 on a Monday night at Blue Diamond, and a band called Sumo is playing War’s “Spill the Wine” for a couple dozen regulars. A pretty brunette swing dances with a guy who’s old e ... More

Bar Reviews The vaguely Germanic Slide Inn (2348 SE Ankeny St., 236-4997, slideinnpdx.com) is an ambitious restaurant. It’s also an abject failure: Fried polenta is a flavorless crunch coated in a discordan ... More

Bar Reviews While the world around it bathed in filthy lucre, now-defunct dive bar Chin Yen was a dimly lit, dirt-cheap holdout of turpentine drinks and oil-slick Chinese food, home to old men who fought th ... More

Bar Reviews For what is ostensibly a sports bar, Lil’ Cooperstown (1831 SW River Drive, 719-5394, lilcooperstown.com) sure has a large and eccentric cocktail list. Along with bottled Michelob Ultra ($3.50) ... More

Bar Reviews It’s pouring rain early on Saturday evening, and most vassals operating at the Green Castle food-cart pod have decided to flee the fields early. But Ian Griffonwyd of Nargila Garden hookah cart ... More

Bar Reviews The Tannery Bar (5425 E Burnside St., 236-3610) is the location’s former business, Skin & Bones, stripped of fat and cured in alcohol. The tiny room consists of a one-plank bar, a pair of ... More

Bar Reviews Admit it, you’re curious: You’ve see drunk tourists in boat shoes rolling around on a weird contraption that looks like a playhouse welded to a bike rack, and you’ve wondered if it’s any f ... More

Bar Reviews The cavernous Rookery bar (1331 SW Broadway, 222-7673, ravenandrosepdx.com)—above Raven & Rose in the ancient Ladd Carriage House—looks like the thick-raftered parlor of a man whose things ... More

Bar Reviews Are you fit for membership to the White Owl Social Club (1305 SE 8th Ave., 236-9672, facebook.com/WhiteOwlSocialClub)? According to Club propaganda, a $25 fee and pledging your soul to “Ye Olde ... More

Bar Reviews Although the bar is dubbed “savage” in French, nothing at Sauvage (537 SE Ash St., No. 102, 971-258-5829, sauvagepdx.com) falls below perfectly refined—except maybe the taxidermied goose imp ... More

Bar Reviews The Leaky Roof (1538 SW Jefferson St., 222-3745, theleakyroof.com) may be across from Lincoln High School, but its patrons are distinctly longer of tooth and eyebrow. The bar serves its once-blue- ... More

Beer Guide 2013 4th Street 77 NE 4th St., Gresham, 669-0569, 4thstreetbrewing.com. 4 pm-1 am Monday-Friday. Noon-1 am Saturday-Sunday.  Among the offerings at Gresham’s 4th Street Brewing you’ll spot the ... More

Beer Guide 2013 Mike Wright looked like a different man a year ago. When Wright opened his Commons Brewery to a gaggle of local beer writers last March, he was clean-shaven and wearing a polo shirt, resembling ... More

Beer Guide 2013 No. 2: Oblique Black & White Coffee Blonde Stout (Cascade) Cascade Brewing’s Oblique Black and White Coffee Blonde Stout has a logic-defying, tongue-twisting name. It fits the beer wel ... More

Beer Guide 2013 WEST OF THE WILLAMETTEThe west side of the Willamette River may lack the east side’s dizzying cultural output. It may lack the great restaurants, the edgy aesthetic, the diversity (read: “youn ... More

Beer Guide 2013 The Coast Astoria: In 1985, Chunk and Mikey stole our heart. In 2006, Fort George Brewery (1483 Duane St., Astoria, fortgeorgebrewery.com) came for a piece of our liver. Fort George’s Vortex IPA ... More

Beer Guide 2013 Widmer Brothers Brewing started in 1984, when six breweries controlled 90 percent of the American beer market. With the help of family, including their father, Ray, brothers Kurt and Rob Widmer op ... More

Beer Guide 2013 Chuck Klosterman once observed that every teenager goes through a Led Zeppelin phase. Sometimes, it lasts a week. Other times, for a year. But it happens. This axiom holds for homebrewing. As ... More

Beer Guide 2013 Portland is a beer town surrounded by wine country. That, as much as anything, gives us reason to be take suds seriously. And nothing says “sophisticated” like a cellar stocked with rare vin ... More

Beer Guide 2013 Abbey: From, or in the style of, beers made by quiet little men who have forever forsaken a woman’s touch. Aging: A time-out for overly aggressive young beer. It’s left to sit in a cool, dark p ... More

Beer Guide 2013 Do you prefer BridgePort IPA or Full Sail ESB? The last time Willamette Week published a beer guide, that was the hot debate. The editor of our 1999 guide—a guy named Jeff Alworth—couldn’t ... More

Bite Club A conversation I overheard while I was shoveling dry sautéed string beans into my craw at that Chinese joint Hunan almost made me kill a man."I like to eat the same thing most days, that way I ... More

Bite Club Located on Southwest 4th Avenue, Romeo Bakery (520 SW 4th Ave., 241-7970) looks and tastes like what Bite Club would imagine a three-way between a subway station, a Japanese bakery and an American sch ... More

Bite Club Buckle up! Bite Club's takin' a high-speed tour through Portland food 2005.FOODSTUFF, USA The launch of big name restaurants, from David Machado's spice-router Vindahlo (see review, page 49) to Bruce ... More

Bite Club Not to take anything way from the awesome brewpubs and hard-drinking eateries that dot the weedy stretch of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard that lies between the Willamette River and Southeast 12th Aven ... More

Bite Club "I have a confession to make," Bite Club moaned ecstatically as we crammed a gooey chunk of rich, hot-fudge-drizzled cupcake in our pie hole. "I hate cupcakes." The woman across from us shook her butt ... More

Bite Club The husband-and-wife culinary exploration force of Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid has been slogging through the back alleys of Thailand and hunkering down in the rural villages of Sri Lanka and Tibet ... More

Bite Club 8:50 pm Tuesday, Nov. 8It's all smooth rock ahead tonight at the Cafe Wonder (128 NE Russell St., 284-8686), the Wonder Ballroom's congenial subterranean watering hole and diner. House of Cunt's Amber ... More

Bite Club Before Bite Club can even get down to the sweet stuff this week, our tableside correspondent Ivy Manning has news of a hot food date:Fields of Plenty, the new book by organic farmer Michael Ableman, h ... More

Bite Club It's all about planning ahead when it comes to great holiday eats, so we've created a list of shopping spots (for awesome dining-out Thanks options, see left) that can help you attain Thanksgiving din ... More

Bite Club The walls cluttered with folk art, those antique chandeliers and that huge, cinematic black-and-white mural: Ever since North Mississippi's Bold-Sky Cafe and Studios (3943 N Mississippi Ave., 287-0154 ... More

Cheap Eats 2012  North Interstate and OverlookDiPrima Dolci1936 N Killingsworth St., 283-5936, 
diprimadolci.com. Lunch and dinner daily. From its Sicilian-American owner to its intimidatingly named pastrie ... More

Cheap Eats 2012 We consumed a lot of tacos while researching this 2012 edition of Cheap Eats; we also ate inordinate helpings of pizza, burgers and pho. ... More

Cheap Eats 2012 So you’re really, really broke. We get it—we’re journalists. The cheap eats within these pages are inexpensive, sure, but not on a living-the-dream budget. I decided to see if I could eat ... More

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Cheap Eats 2013 24th & Meatballs 2341 NE Glisan St., 282-2557, 24thandmeatballs.com. Lunch and dinner daily. Despite a prominently displayed 50-EAT-BALLS phone number and a website exhorting visitors to “pu ... More

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Cheap Eats 2013 Tea, like any comfort essential to being human, should always be offered freely. But hospitality at a restaurant rarely comes without cost, and in Portland it is mostly just Chinese and Vietnamese ... More

Cheap Eats 2013 24th & Meatballs 2341 NE Glisan St., 282-2557, 24thandmeatballs.com. Lunch and dinner daily. Despite a prominently displayed 50-EAT-BALLS phone number and a website exhorting visitors to “pu ... More

Cheap Eats 2013 American (misc.)Breken Kitchen1800 NW 16th Ave., 841-6359, brekenkitchen.com. Breakfast and Monday-Friday.It’s hard to imagine a neighborhood cafe where the specialty of the house is—wait for ... More

Devour 2012 How to shop at a modern American supermarket: Stick to the edges of the store—the produce, dairy, bulk dry goods and meat and fish departments. That’s where you’ll find whole foods with lo ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Dutch American Market for the wall of licorice. Fubonn to learn that Portland is more diverse than you think it is. H Mart because it’s a foreign country. La Tapatia for enormous ch ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Cherry Sprout Market ‘cause it’s just so darn Portland. Barbur World Foods for the city’s best deli case. Pastaworks for fresh noodles and housemade mozzarella. Sheridan Fruit Com ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Flying Fish Company to see the best our ocean has to offer.Gartner’s Country Meats to feed a small army.Olympic Provisions for sublime salami.Otto’s Sausage Kitchen for t ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Delicious Donuts as an antidote to the Voodoo mania.Ken’s Artisan Bakery for the country brown and a fruit tart.Little T American Baker for the pretzel bread and the city’s best ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Clear Creek Distillery to meet the master.CorksCru to feel the chill in your bonesHollywood Fred Meyer for volume.Saraveza ’cause it’s so darn cute.Stone Barn Brandyworks to ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Clive Coffee to ogle the machines.Mr. Green Beans to learn to roast it yourself.Serenity Art for an education in fermented tea.Stumptown Annex for a cupping.Townshend’s Alberta ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: F.H. Steinbart to learn alchemy. Livingscape Nursery to indulge your back-to-the-land fantasies. Rose’s Equipment & Supply to load up on kitchen basics. Sharpening4U to experien ... More

Devour 2012 Top Picks: Benessere Olive Oils and Balsamic to taste them all.Bob’s Red Mill Whole Grain Storejust for the smell of it.Cacao to discover a new world of chocolate.Cheese Bar to taste the ware ... More

Devour 2012 Illustrations by Kim ScafuroLe Ho first learned to cook when she just a kid; helping her mom in the kitchen of their Bac Liêu restaurant in Southern Vietnam. By age 12, she was already organizing ... More

Drank Old dogs are notoriously reluctant to perform new tricks. So someone give Hair of the Dog brewmaster Alan Sprints a good belly scratching for his new Lila Maibock. Sprints’ brewery will celebr ... More

Drank Oregon rieslings are not like German rieslings. Grown in the cool climates along the Rhine river, traditional German rieslings are sweet and fruity. Though the Willamette Valley is also known fo ... More

Drank Like the national census or U2’s popularity, a cider boom recurs about once a decade. We’re nearing the crest of a wave right now, according to Wandering Aengus co-owner James Kohn. “The n ... More

Drank The Ale Apothecary’s Paul Arney revels in making concoctions that are tough to wrap your head around. The former Deschutes brewer, who now works alone in a small barn outside Bend, outdid hims ... More

Drank Chili peppers—25 varieties of them—were once the top crop at the Tilley family’s 25-acre farm in Eugene. Hops now get more attention from Ben and Nate Tilley, but they haven’t plowed the peppe ... More

Drank Is IPA the new Amber? Though still the top-selling style of craft beer in Oregon, lately it’s seemed as though brewers have exhausted every possible permutation of suitable hops and malts. For ... More

Drank Rogue Ales has been mashing the vino-centric concept of terroir into beer more aggressively than anyone else in Oregon. Some of the Newport-based brewery’s initiatives have been mostly about m ... More

Drank The nearest stretch of the Oregon coast does not yet have the amenities Portlanders have come to expect. The scenery is great, of course, but high-quality food, drink and entertainment are in sh ... More

Drank Pfriem Family Brewers, which opened in Hood River last year, has a lofty goal: capture sunlight in a bottle. Pfriem’s Little Saison, light but not little, almost gets there. Saisons began as t ... More

Drank Dr. Wort is a gadfly in the Socratic sense: an anonymous blogger who bites the lumbering steed that is Portland’s brewing scene, whipping local beer geeks into a fury with what he says is in the ... More

Drink Baby, it’s goddamn freezing outside. OK, maybe we don’t have it as bad as most of the country. But Portlanders only complain about the weather to justify their other favorite pastime: staying ... More

Drink  It’s been really miserable out there, don’t you think? The rain’s a little heavier and colder than usual, and every time the clouds part the temperature drops. SAD looms. ... More

Drink Who needs restaurants? I mean, I like eating out as much as the next guy, but the 300-percent markups on glass pours, hour-long waits and price gouging on cheap starters (necessary to make up for ... More

Drink  For those of us who don’t much follow the comings and goings of local bands, deciding to just go out and see a show can seem overwhelming. We scan the music calendar, wondering if we can really ... More

Drink  If you walk through the streets of Portland on a sunny day, you might notice a slew of people who are not into shakin’ their tail feathers. They are too hip, too introverted, too Etsy. ... More

Drink  Summer patio drinking at dog-friendly establishments is one of the much-heralded joys of Portland, but like seemingly everything great about Puddletown, what happens the ... More

Drink Hey, kids! And by kids, I mean persons 21 or more years of age! Can you identify the Portland bars at which these photos were taken? ... More

Drink  Billy Ray’s Neighborhood Dive
2216 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Five machines, including Attack From Mars, Medieval Madness and Monster Bash. ... More

Drink  We aren’t sure why there are suddenly several bars in Portland that also sell merchandise, or whether combining shopping and drinking is really ... More

Drink  Where can you enjoy both a story of a gun and a girl and a pint of Oregon IPA? These days, just about everywhere but the multiplex. ... More

Drink 2012 It’s hard work, cranking out guides like this one. We spend months researching (that is, drinking) and writing (often while drinking) and fact-checking (usually not while drinking) to ensure we print the best possible ... More

Drink 2012 NORTH Interstate and Overlook The Alibi4024 N Interstate Ave., 287-5335. 
11-2:30 am daily.Despite its name, the tiki-tacky Alibi is unlikely to provide you with one; after a couple of Lon ... More

Drink 2012 Spanish coffee does not seem like a particularly cool cocktail, especially in a town like Portland where career bartenders are continually concocting new variations of the tasty and bizarre. But ... More

Drink 2012 When Gaycation celebrated its reign as one of Portland’s longest-running dance parties this February, you could hardly tell it was a special night: The monthly gathering of LGBTs and their all ... More

Drink 2012 It was my friend Christian Gaston, as it so often is, who first noticed the omen: a retractable belt barrier on the sidewalk of Northwest 21st Avenue. It was outside the latest location of the s ... More

Drink 2012 You don’t have to be a whorehouse Henry Miller or Dylan Thomas souse to know that literature and debauched penury often coincide. Tony’s Tavern and Joe’s Cellar—a pair of the diviest of Port ... More

Drink 2012 THE WILLAMETTE WEEK BAR. We already make half* our revenue from events sponsored by beer and liquor companies, so why not go all the way? Welcome to Deadline! Casey and Nick book the bands in the ... More

Drink 2012 COCKTAIL BARSAviary Bartk     Centraltk     Circa 33tk     The Guild Public Housetk     Kasktk     Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen ... More

Eat Me More restaurants opened their doors in Portland in 2007 than any other year in recent memory. During some stretches, it seemed a new eatery would debut every weekend. And you know what? That was great ... More

Eat Me Of the 100 or so micro distilleries in the entire USA, Portland’s industrial-eastside neighborhood is home to four of them, with three more on the way by 2009. Maybe that’s why bartenders ... More

Eat Me If the newish Pearl District eatery Leonardo’s (939 NW Lovejoy St., 546-2223) , which took over the spot where Graze once resided, were a car, it’d be a Ford Aerostar minivan. If it were ... More

Eat Me After a Portland Development Commission vote, the Portland Public Market’s nearly decade-long search for a home has collapsed again. The Pacific Northwest College of Art outmaneuvered backers of ... More

Eat Me South Waterfront condos have river views and the Pearl District has neon totem poles, but here’s a condo amenity that beats ’em all—the lucky residents of the Clinton Condominiums wi ... More

Eat Me Technology has been adding new links to the food chain for a century, but thanks to books like Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma , our disconnect with what we eat is common cocktail ... More

Eat Me WW’ s recent Restaurant Guide debut made for busy Portland restaurants, so I skipped town, landing at the Seattle Vietnamese eatery Monsoon (615 19th Ave. E., Seattle, 206-325-2111) just minut ... More

Eat Me That Portland’s South Waterfront was predestined to become a beach town is not a surprise. Right from the get-go, its deep-pocketed master planners—including Pearl honcho Homer Williams&md ... More

Eat Me Giorgio Kawas must love Portland a lot. So much so that the Italian-born restaurateur, whose eponymous Pearl District bistro has charmed diners for nearly a decade, wooed a pair of chefs (who once wor ... More

Eat Me Last Friday night, more than 500 Portlanders paid $50 apiece to attend a fundraiser at Union Station for the proposed Portland Public Market. The iconic train station was packed with people excited by ... More

Eat Mobile If it rains, will I get my money back?-The event is rain or shine. We will not offer refunds.Can I bring my pet?-We love pets, but they will not be admitted into Eat Mobile.Does my ticket cover the co ... More

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Eat Mobile What is the Carty Award?It is an honor created by Willamette Week and Eat Mobile to recognize outstanding achievement in mobile nourishment. This award is quite possibly—no, definitely ... More

Eat Mobile  See your favorite Eat Mobile food-cart food on the shelves of Whole Foods Market stores!As part of its sponsorship of Eat Mobile, Whole Foods is asking the people of Portland which food-cart item they must have in their kitchen cupboard.

A takeoff from its Local Producer Loan Program, Whole Foods is implementing its Street Eats line into area markets with food-specific grab-and-go items. ... More

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Eat Mobile  The 2011 Eat Mobile will be on April 23, 2011, with tickets on sale March 23, 2011.
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If you just can't wait until April, we're hosting PDX Cartathlon I, a food cart scavenger hunt.
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With more than 400 food carts selling their tasty goods within our city limits, Portland has become an international destination for mobile eats. U.S. News Travel recently declared Portland to have the "world's best street food."

On April 27, Eat Mobile, part food festival, part cart competition, allows attendees to sample from nearly 50 of Willamette Week's favorite food carts as vendors compete for the coveted Carty Award.


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Food Cart Reviews You don’t have to know where Mauritius (moh-RISH-us) is to delight in cilantro chutney-embellished vegetarian samosas ($5) at Chez Dodo. Once you pinpoint the tiny island nation in the Indian Oc ... More

Food Cart Reviews You can drive to Cartlandia, but you probably shouldn’t. Not just because this “bike-centric food-cart superpod” on Southeast 82nd Avenue is 3 gallons from much of Portland, but because the ... More

Food Cart Reviews It’s common to hear a certain class of foodniks proclaim the local food-cart craze is over. Which is true—if by “craze” you mean a “brief period when trained chefs thought it would be cu ... More

Food Cart Reviews I spent much of my week in Belize feeling various states of queasiness, an extended gut-sickness that culminated in me carrying a baggie of my own vomit through customs in Houston. Which is to s ... More

Food Cart Reviews How does a cart sell smoothies in rainy, tightfisted Portland? Any chump with a Cuisinart, bananas, Nutella, ice and yogurt can press “blend” in the warmth of his own home. So Moberi has a twist. ... More

Food Cart Reviews Whatever the country’s culinary variety of multilayered causa or thick-brothed casuella, in Peru sandwiches rule the city streets. At night, lines form around the block at sangucherias that are some ... More

Food Cart Reviews When it opened last fall in the front yard of a ranch house two blocks off Southeast 82nd Avenue, Pizza Box was slinging some of the best pies in town. The 12-foot-tall, clapboard-sided cabin on wheels survived the move to inner-southeast Portland intact, but the good pizza didn’t. ... More

Food Cart Reviews Portland food carts are herd animals, staying put through long winters in cozy pods with space heaters and covered eating areas. In Vancouver, the city’s only food truck must cut a solitary, mea ... More

Food Cart Reviews Demographic shifts have profoundly altered the Alphabet District lunch crowd. In the last few months, redevelopment of Slabtown warehouses has brought the neighborhood a hungry and frugal blue-col ... More

Food Cart Reviews Our club-wielding ancestors would have a rough time making chicken tenders the Cultured Caveman way. Considering Paleolithic hominids couldn’t reliably control fire, they’d have  to hand- ... More

Food Reviews & Stories Most shelves at the Made in Oregon store are stocked with the obvious: Jams made from native berries, our famous wines and cheeses, the blankets our pioneers traded to indigenous people before s ... More

Food Reviews & Stories It’s been seven years since I lived in Chicago, where I attended college, drinking too much Midwestern beer and cramming as much of the city’s famous stuffed pizza into my maw as my student bu ... More

Food Reviews & Stories In this unicorns-and-rainbows town, all the food carts are fabulous, and free-spirited chefs never fail to deliver mealtime magic on the cheap. Sycophants cheer the indie scene with the shrill fer ... More

Food Reviews & Stories Rigoberto comes from a family that is large and well known, if not especially prestigious. Sitting snugly against a tire shop across from Grocery Outlet on Highway 99E in Milwaukie, Rigoberto’ ... More

Food Reviews & Stories Going to Roe is a bit like passing into the Egyptian afterlife. Before you reach its peaceful space, you must first pass through the land of wish fulfillment—in this case, the lively food tunn ... More

Food Reviews & Stories Five out of five rabbis agree: Portland is still suffering from the closure of Kettleman Bagel Company. Despite the efforts of many who have stepped up to fill the bagel-shaped void, nothing has b ... More

Food Reviews & Stories About halfway through a meal at Woodstock’s Nudi Noodle Place, my dining companion looked up and said, “This tastes good, but I feel like I don’t understand what’s going on anymore.” T ... More

Food Reviews & Stories The Kingdom of Roosevelt’s menu may be a minor literary work, short prose that begins with “Fallow deer heart tartare with his marrow,” continues to “Eggs in various forms” and closes on ... More

Food Reviews & Stories Only a few years ago, Montavilla’s reputation revolved around car lots and hookers. That stretch of 82nd Avenue is still a great place to find a 2008 Silverado, but on a recent Friday night, the ... More

Food Reviews & Stories In a gauzy dream sequence, I am beckoned to a remote area of town to check out a dingy, under-the-radar ethnic joint where every dish is a stunning success of bright, bold, exotic flavors. I’m t ... More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS,The last time Miss Dish will write that greeting is right there. She will also dispense with the third person and give it to you straight--I am leaving my post at the Dish desk afte ... More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Is the new reality show The Restaurant, served Sunday nights on NBC, anything like the real thing? You've got the hottie chef. The barky money-man. The actor-waiters.The antisocia ... More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS,For years Miss Dish has tried to tell the people that, while restaurant reviews may be interesting or informative or some combination of the two, they have no power over the life an ... More

Miss Dish Ginger beef burger with papaya ketchup. Chicken braised in coconut milk, green tomatoes and lemon-lime chili paste. Soy-lacquered pork loin with sweet-potato mash, curried slaw and Asian-pear chut ... More

Miss Dish There's panic a-brewing at the Carrousel Restaurant (formerly the Carnival) located at the foot of Oregon Health & Science University. Loyal customers, who have staunchly frequented the over-50-ye ... More

Miss Dish Dear Diary,Happy Birthday, America, you old hag. Let's eat. Here are some recent adventures recounted for your voyeuristic pleasure:*The streets were clogged with a dizzying array of mouth-breathers ... More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Two nights, two event reviews....Rogue Ales' Sausage Extravaganza Tuesday, June 17 Rogue Ales Public House 1339 NW Flanders St., 222-5910Miss Dish wasn't sure how this one would pl ... More

Miss Dish Gentle Reader, You know how hot the Ripe consortium is--the catering, the coffee shop, the underground/above-ground family suppers. It's kinda old news, really, except there's newish news. Josh S ... More

Miss Dish Dear Diary: Saturday, March 29 Tin Shed Garden Cafe 1438 NE Alberta St., 288-6966 Miss Dish has been a fan of this lovely breakfast haunt since the get-go. She loves the dimple-cute staff, the ... More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Miss Dish was excited when she received an invitation to an art gallery where the work in question would be an homage to food itself. As you know, food is one of Miss D.'s favorit ... More

Restaurant Guide 2nd Story 2005 SE 11th Ave., 741-9693, 2ndstorypdx.com. [WORTH A CLIMB] Erin McBride does wonderful things with beets. And kale. And sometimes peaches. The Ohio-born farm girl made desserts at ... More

Restaurant Guide North Killingsworth Enat Kitchen300 N Killingsworth St., 285-4867.[ETHIOPIAN KING] Ethiopian restaurants often seem interchangeable—same dishes, similar décor, same distinct serving style ... More

Restaurant Guide The July 6, 2011, issue of Willamette Week hit the streets with a glowing review of a new Northeast Alberta Street restaurant. The food was “cerebral” and “playful.” It “surprises and ... More

Restaurant Guide Life on the food frontier can be rugged and lonely. Ask Johanna Ware. As a child in Chicago, Ware remembers the quizzical reaction to the “crazy lunches” packed by a mother “who cooked her w ... More

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Restaurant Guide Boise Mack & Dub’s Excellent Chicken & Waffles 3601 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 933-7662, mackanddub.com. Waffles and chicken from James McClendon, better known as J. Mack of the U ... More

Restaurant Guide Portlanders are not big on dessert. It’s not that we’re health conscious, exactly—it’s that we indulge elsewhere. Or so says Jeff McCarthy, the former pastry chef at closed-down Ten 01 and ... More

Restaurant Guide If you want to catch Trent Pierce, you’ve got to know your tide tables. The chef behind Southeast Division Street ramen go-to Wafu has been spending at least a day a week at the Oregon Coast, lo ... More

Restaurant Guide Knowing how to pair wine with food is an essential skill for any gourmand. But as beer and cocktails—and even non-alcoholic drinks—attain a level of artisanship on par with vino, and gain ... More

Restaurant Guide Now that the hype has died down, food carts have settled into the Portland landscape. We could just name our top five carts, but they’re notoriously bad at keeping to their posted hours, and s ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 3 Doors Down1429 SE 37th Ave., 236-6886, 3doorsdowncafe.com.[PASTA, OR ARDOR] This oddly angular Hawthorne bistro feels like an artifact of a different age in Portland eating, post-Zefiro but pre-Cl ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 North Mississippi Vancouver/Williams Northeast 28th Avenue and Burnside AlbertaKillingsworth Lloyd District  Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard North Tabor Roseway Woodlawn Northwest21st and 23rd A ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 Cha’ba Thai  Lucky for us, finding decent Thai takeout in Portland is pretty easy. Finding it in a convenient location is trickier, so it’s a big help that Cha’ba Thai fields the same men ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 4-4-2 The former Taste of Europe grocery is now a soccer bar, its walls adorned with the flags of favored teams, from FC Bayern to the Timbers’ green and yellow, but owner Muhamed Mujcic-Mufko is ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 Alder Pastry and Desserts One of the city’s newest purveyors of sweet treats, Alder Pastry and Desserts is part fancy dessert bar, part gelateria, equally good for a breakfast quiche, sunny-day ge ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 Andina...has an extensive and good gluten-free menu. Meat Cheese Bread... makes gluten-free bread in-house (ask for it). Natural Selection... is mostly gluten-free.New Cascadia Traditional Bakery... ( ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 WILLAMETTE VALLEY: A stop for Mexican mariscos in Woodburn is mandatory; our favorites are Nuevo Aranda’s (450 N 1st St.) and Mariscos El Zarandeado (1032 N Pacific Highway). In Silverton, treat you ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 The secret to great barbecue, according to Rodney Muirhead, is this... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 This time last year, Aaron Woo was definitely not a name synonymous with innovative vegetarian food in Portland. Despite a background in fine dining, including a stint at Clarklewis, Woo had spent ... More

Restaurant Guide 2011 Arleta Library Bakery Cafe It’s a ballsy move, declaring your biscuits and gravy the best in Portland right there on the menu. But when the plate arrives, it’s hard to argue against a pair of fl ... More