Food Reviews & Stories The past 18 months have seen dedicated food-cart parking lots spread across the city like so many dandelions, springing from the ruins of failed condo projects, reclaimed vacant lots and the fever    More

Food Reviews & Stories What can I possibly tell you about food carts that you haven’t already heard? There are a lot of them, and they open and close with such frequency that trying to keep track of them all is a futile e   More

Food Reviews & Stories Portlanders love comfort food, and there’s no Japanese food more comforting than a hot bowl of ramen. We spent some chilly winter nights sampling 20 bowls at 13 restaurants around town. Ramen, a    More

Food Reviews & Stories Your morning cup has gotten more expensive of late. Why? Raw, green coffee beans now cost more than they have at any point in the past 14 years. There are a lot of reported reasons for this state o   More

Food Reviews & Stories Most of Portland’s more than 40 coffee roasters are turning out exceptional beans for those of us who don’t mind caffeine, but what about those among us who love coffee but have been warned off the hard stuff?   More

Food Reviews & Stories It is a cliché of Portland’s food-centric marketing that we are ground zero for the wave of small, so-called craft distilleries that have popped up all over America in the past decade. It’s a    More

Food Reviews & Stories What makes a good coffeehouse? It’s more than just good coffee; with an hour’s practice, you can prepare a world-class cup at home. And it’s not free Wi-Fi or great baked goods or art on the w   More

Food Reviews & Stories So you’ve bought a $16 bag of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe from your local microroaster. How long do you have to drink it before all that dollar-an-ounce specialness is gone? According to Courier Coffee    More

Food Reviews & Stories While pour-over has become the standard at the city’s finest cafes, home coffee geeks have been steadily expanding their arsenals of java-related gadgetry. Where once the Chemex and French press    More

Food Reviews & Stories With no real indigenous pizza style to call our own, Portland’s late-blossoming pizza scene is often defined by its torchbearers   More