The Old Country

Gilda’s is all about the grandmothers.

Food Reviews & Stories A large portrait of chef Marco Roberti’s grandmother Gilda hangs in the foyer of her namesake restaurant; she smiles approvingly at tables of other grandmas. Gilda’s Italian Restaurant, a Caesa   More

 

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 AARON MESH

Hog Heaven

Three Pigs makes big, bad sandwiches and more.

Food Reviews & Stories Three Pigs is a fine-dining restaurant sandwiched between two slices of bread. Hidden away in a building at the corner of I-405 and West Burnside Street, the tiny sandwich shop (the former home of    More

 

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 KELLY CLARKE

The Melting Pot

A local prep kitchen incubates Portland’s next generation of food businesses.

Food Reviews & Stories Michael Madigan owns the best kitchen in Portland. It’s 3,200 square feet of gleaming stainless steel, filled with stoves, grills, mixers, slicers, smokers and fryers, manned day and night by a w   More

 

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 RUTH BROWN

Tot or Not?

Zeus Cafe tries to bolt past the usual McMenamins fare.

Food Reviews & Stories With its open kitchen, neatly arranged plates and locally sourced ingredients, Zeus Cafe is the first McMenamins restaurant that aspires to be an actual restaurant. The strength of Brian and Mike M   More

 

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 AARON MESH

Dave’s Killer Bagels

All crust, all the time.

Food Reviews & Stories Now that baker Dave Dahl has cornered the local toast market, with loaves of hearty Dave’s Killer sandwich bread popping up on supermarket shelves from Whole Foods to Winco, Portland’s wild man    More

 

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 KELLY CLARKE

Sausage Fest

Gorilla Meats Co. takes charcuterie underground.

Food Reviews & Stories It’s 2 pm on a Wednesday afternoon and Bryan Rudd and Mike Malone are hanging out: drinking white wine, listening to Eurythmics and shoving pounds of fat-flecked ground kielbasa into a sausage st   More

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 NATASHA GEILING

Oregon Brewers Festival

Food Reviews & Stories The sudsy celebration that started Portland’s obsession with gathering to slurp tiny tasters of craft brews is back for its 24th year. These days it has metastasized into a juggernaut of an event    More

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 KELLY CLARKE

Mio Seafood Market

Mio wants you to make your own sushi.

Food Reviews & Stories The eight Portland-area outlets of Sonny Kim’s Mio Sushi empire go through a lot of fish any given day—so much so that the chain buys its sashimi fodder in very, very large quantities, and distrib   More

 

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

You Got Your Tofu In My BBQ!

At So Kong Dong, hot tofu and meat live happily ever after.

Food Reviews & Stories At So Kong Dong Tofu & BBQ, you hear your food before you see it. The hiss-spit-sizzle of broth and meat hitting hot stone
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011 KELLY CLARKE

Brasserie 3: The Brassering

Brasserie Montmartre returns from the grave—again.

Food Reviews & Stories Our story thus far: In 1978, the same year voters approved the creation of the nation’s first urban growth boundary and WW declared the Bee Gees artists of the year   More

 

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE