Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Greetings. While our dear Miss D. is on holiday infiltrating the food communities of other cultures (Rome? Greece? New Jersey? Who can tell?), I, her side dish in crime, will be h ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Miss Dish hates baking. It may be because she sucks at it. She's always viewed cooking--making sauces, poaching fish, crisping potatoes--as a sweet science with fundamentals, as w ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, "Yesterday I spent the whole day in bed," Random Diessner told Miss Dish. He hadn't been felled by anything so mundane as flu but rather was shot down after eating too much of a g ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, One of Miss Dish's bitches recently whispered in her ear: "You've gotta check out Javier's. It's open 24 hours. And the California burrito...muy bueno." Hmmm, California burrito. ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Beaverton fans of Pho Van will be pleased to note that the Vietnamese masters of noodle soup are coming to their 'hood. Lam Van tells Miss Dish that a brand-spankin' new Pho Van w ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, Lest you faithful readers begin to believe that there is but gloom and doom in the local restaurant biz these days, take a bite out of this bit of info: Taqueria Nueve (28 NE 28th ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS, As we head into autumn, it's easy to get depressed about the waning sun and fun. But Miss Dish (always a paragon of cup half full) reminds you that the wonderful flip side of the ...   More

Miss Dish Fans of Korean food may mourn the passing of Celadon, that Seoul-by-way-of-Tokyo restaurant which recently closed up shop on Northwest 23rd Avenue, but now they have something new to celebrate--Be ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS,It was hot. Miss Dish was riding down the bus mall and when she came to the cluster of food carts on Southwest 5th Avenue and Stark Street, she passed a sign that was more than a li ...   More

Miss Dish GENTLE READERS,As you may recall, Miss Dish remarked a few weeks back on the evolution of the West End (that stretch of downtown between Southwest 10th Avenue and I-405 and between Burnside and Je ...   More