Bar Reviews Under the watchful eyes of Abraham Lincoln in two slightly creepy paintings on the walls of Free House (1325 NE Fremont St., 946-8161), a dozen or so drinkers maintain a vibe of laid-back camaraderi ... More

Bar Reviews I dunno, man, it’s hard to explain. If you ride, you get it. But if you’ve never shown up to work late and dripping, your teeth tingly from some potholed street, you won’t understand. For ... More

Bar Reviews How did The Hutch on Holgate (4515 SE 41st Ave., 774-1822), a dim and dingy basement bar with a totem pole in the parking lot and carvings of pilgrims on the wall, come to be? Built as a house in ... More

Bar Reviews For a year, I lived with a guy named Scott. He had a somewhat alarming obsession with pet fish. Some months he’d fret about making rent, then come home with an African knife fish he bought off a ... More

Bar Reviews Just like sightings of Bigfoot, brewpubs in Portland seem to pop up inexplicably in a new location every few months. Boasting a standard lineup of craft beers with silly names and overpriced pub g ... More

Bar Reviews Thanks to the war on tobacco, it’s no harder to get a joint than a good stogie in this town. While so much of Portland’s diet is bacon-based, and food carts will soon be allowed to pour $2 wel ... More

Bar Reviews Until recently, getting Hair of the Dog’s barrel-aged brews straight from the breeder meant waiting in the rain by a loading dock. Hair of the Dog’s tasting room (61 SE Yamhill St., 232-6585, ... More

Bar Reviews Sunday brunch lines at Jam on Hawthorne (2229 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 234-4790, jamonhawthorne.com) stretch a full block, but seats are plentiful at weekday happy hour. This is odd, because the bar of ... More

Bar Reviews The great big sign atop St. Johns recourse New Portland Rose (8728 N Lombard St., 286-2815) promises Chinese food and “RESTAURAT,” but neither are available after dark—if you don’t know to ... More

Bar Reviews The notion of a new wine shop and bar in the toniest, most made-over stretch of Nob Hill is worrisome. One imagines managers from Pottery Barn giggling incessantly over comically large glasses of ... 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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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  In 1965, a young upstart arrived in Oregon “with 3,000 grape cuttings and a theory.” As the story goes... More

Drank Mountain Rescue Pale Ale is a hybrid. The idea, GoodLife Brewing says, was to create a beer without either the hoppiness of an IPA or the maltiness of an amber. In this, the new Bend brewery suc ... More

Drank Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing is locked and loaded, with the busiest of the many brewpubs at the foot of Mount Bachelor and plans to open a sister spot in Boise manned with talent poached from other ... More

Drank Previously only available on draft in the odd bar, Anthem Cider is now being bottled and sold under its own slickly designed label. The inaugural release of the new line from Salem cidery Wander ... More

Drank Just as British pale ales brewed to higher gravity to survive the seafaring voyage to India became known as India pale ales, British porters fortified with extra alcohol to survive the sojourn to ... More

Drank “Sake Fest PDX is next week; you should review some sake,” said my editor, plonking two bottles from local producer SakeOne on my desk. The first, a Moonstone Coconut Lemongrass sake, poured t ... More

Drank The bubblegum-pink wax seal on Alameda’s Bad Bunny Easter-themed spring seasonal should have been the tip-off. But the concept of an imperial cream ale was just too interesting to pass up. Cre ... More

Drank India Pale Ales (IPAs) pack a ton of hops as well as increasingly high alcohol. Whereas they used to boast 5- to 6-percent alcohol by volume (ABV), topping 7-percent is commonplace. After all, the ... More

Drank Logsdon’s white beer has a sweet spot. Made by a Hood River-based organic brewer specializing in saisons—including our favorite Oregon beer of 2011, the Logsdon Fresh Hop Seizoen—it uses O ... More

Drank Shamrock Shakes are not delicious. Please don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. The green concoctions McDonald’s rolls out about a month before St. Patrick’s Day—regular ol’ vanilla-fla ... 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  Everybody has a favorite bar game. And while I understand the allure of a drunken game of pinball or shuffleboard, there’s no thrill quite ... 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 Although we're sold-out of Eat Mobile Pre-tasting tickets, you can still win them from our partner, Google Places.

They want to hear what you think about local places around Oregon, and to help inspire you, they're giving you the opportunity to win VIP tickets to Eat Mobile on April 28th. With VIP tickets, that's a whole extra hour of enjoying samples before the crowds from Portland's best street-food vendors. ... 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 So, you've followed your Portland instinct and waited until the last possible moment to buy Eat Mobile tickets—and now the general-admission tickets are all gone. Don't worry! A limited number of pre-tasting tickets are still available for $46 apiece at the Willamette Week store.

Also, Eat Mobile and Forktown Food Tours  have teamed up with EcoShuttle for two bus tours of carts in their natural habitats. You can still survey the best of the city's food carts without the headache of trawling Twitter to figure out where the good ones are this week. ... 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 Tickets now on sale for Eat Mobile 2011!
Get 'em while they're hot: wweek.com/store
Tickets are $15 for general admission and include samples at 40 food carts. In addition to general admission tickets, we will offer a limited number of pre-tasting tickets at $45, which will allow attendees to sample an hour prior to the general-admission event and enjoy complimentary Bear Flag Wine, McSorley’s, Pabst, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and vitaminwater. General Admission Tickets Now Sold Out.

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Eat Mobile Tickets go on sale Wednesday, March 23. Tickets are $15 for general admission and include samples at 40 food carts. In addition to general admission tickets, we will offer a limited number of pre-tast ... More

Eat Mobile Eat Mobile is produced by Willamette Week newspaper.
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Food Cart Reviews Which comes first, the pun or the menu? “We knew we wanted to do breakfast,” says the guy inside the bright-yellow Fried Egg I’m in Love cart on Hawthorne. “We thought about something NP ... More

Food Cart Reviews Believe it or not, some people still saunter up to food carts with Spanish names expecting tacos. Take it from Angel Villalvir, owner and chef of Angel’s Cabana. “Everyone expects to see tacos ... More

Food Cart Reviews It took three attempts finally to sample the wares of this anonymous white truck parked across the street from the entrance to the Montgomery Park complex. Twice we trekked the mile from our offic ... More

Food Cart Reviews Clam chowder generates strong opinions. Adding tomatoes to clam chowder in place of cream (making it “Manhattan-style”) was at one point so contentious that, in 1939, the Maine state Legislatu ... More

Food Cart Reviews The best bird at Run Chicken Run is painted, not plated. Does any Portland food cart have better art than the man-sized rooster scurrying across this trailer’s wall? A vibration of bright colors ... More

Food Cart Reviews Who has two thumbs, bad-ass heavy-metal beards and huge piles of smoked meat? These Guys Brooklyn. The titular guys are hirsute co-owners David Enfield and Ben Hildreth, who serve smoked pork an ... More

Food Cart Reviews The Austin food-cart scene is not all steak, tacos and steak tacos. In fact, on my visit to what’s often considered the nation’s No. 2 food-cart town (Portland is tops, natch), I even found a ... More

Food Cart Reviews What do Poles eat during the summer? The Polish fare familiar stateside is heavily skewed toward cured meats and root vegetables—foods that are hard to imagine enjoying on Baltic beaches. I ca ... More

Food Cart Reviews There’s a great cup of coffee in Portland that costs only 75 cents. It’s light, sweet and has an earthy flavor that makes it the perfect accompaniment for an afternoon meal of meat and peanu ... More

Food Cart Reviews Is a coffee kiosk staffed entirely by hot chicks in bikinis a tasteless and degrading enterprise or an empowering and titillating local business befitting this sex-positive city? Is it a way for ... More

Food Reviews & Stories We had wine on our minds. Then we got a little hungry, so we staged a raid on the cheese case at Irvington’s Foster & Dobbs specialty foods store. What should you pair with an Oregon pinot ... More

Food Reviews & Stories But what do the children eat? “Oh, they like the vanilla,” answers the knit-capped woman behind the counter at Salt & Straw. This is suspicious. As a child, I remember screaming for bubble ... More

Food Reviews & Stories When Good Call Sports Bar & Grill was evicted from its Hazelwood home at the end of December—the landlord lost the property—Portlanders lost not only a friendly place to watch the game b ... More

Food Reviews & Stories People have stopped looking up in restaurants. We’re so busy Instagramming our plates, or poring over our meal’s backstory, that a great view seems superfluous. People now chat excitedly about ... More

Food Reviews & Stories Waffles are arguably the least interesting of J. Mack’s projects. Born James McClendon in 1967... More

Food Reviews & Stories “We felt sorry for Portlanders because they don’t have good falafel,” says the tall, trim man with a smile. “So we had to come here.” That’s Sam Hazza, a Palestine native who moved ... More

Food Reviews & Stories A dish called Dragonwell Lionhead summons imagery straight outta Game of Thrones: writhing lizards hatching from the skulls of your enemies doused in Sriracha—or something like that. Part of the ... More

Food Reviews & Stories With its clean lines, design-conscious self-branding and techy iconography, Boke Bowl’s interior looks more than anything like an Apple store. ... More

Food Reviews & Stories If I wanted to get rich and famous in Portland, I’d open an old-timey soda fountain. I’d call it Dr. Pickwick’s Tonics & Elixirs. I’d fill it with vintage pharmacy bottles and old pa ... More

Food Reviews & Stories The koozies are genius. There’s something inexplicably decadent and wonderful about a restaurant offering a cushy foam barrier to keep your beer cold and your hand warm. Sipping $2 cans of PBR f ... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The secret to great barbecue, according to Rodney Muirhead, is this... More

Restaurant Guide 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 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