All in the Family

Grandpa's is full of grandmas (who think you look a little skinny).

Food Reviews & Stories Some of my fondest memories from my time in Chicago are of the Spartan, hole-in-the-wall, train-car Polish cafes in the northwest part of the city. These were Polish community gathering places cente   More

 

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Hunger Games

At the Bent Brick, the food is serious. Nothing else is.

Food Reviews & Stories Scott Dolich and Will Preisch’s new food-obsessed tavern, the Bent Brick, doesn’t mince words. You might be given the phrase “shrimp, corn, cherry tomatoes, young coriander” ($14) and end up   More

 

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 KELLY CLARKE

Saint Cupcake Alder-Smoked Chocolate Chip Cookies

Food Reviews & Stories The best dessert at Saint Cupcake’s big, new downtown digs ain’t a cupcake. It’s a nutty, smoky chocolate chip cookie ($3) that tastes like a campfire in a sugar forest. Yes, the adorable egg   More

 

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 KELLY CLARKE

The Happy Cliché

You've been to Skin & Bones before. But you’ll want to go again.

Food Reviews & Stories Somebody hand Caleb McBee a pork-belly-shaped trophy. In his three-month-old Skin & Bones American Bistro, the former owner of much-missed Pearl-district bar Apotheke has succeeded in epitomizin   More

 

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

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