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Big In Japan

Shigezo curries favor with Rising Sun comfort food.


Food Reviews & Stories
A handmade sign hangs in the men’s room of Shigezo Izakaya, promising the purchase of “a fancy Japanese toilet” to match the one in the ladies’ lavatory once the restaurant hits 50,000 cust   More
 
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 AARON MESH

Are you Lonesome’s tonight?

Late-night laughs with a side of pizza.


Food Reviews & Stories
“Be good and you will be lonesome,” says the Mark Twain quote on the front of a Lonesome’s Pizza box. Twain might not have been talking about pizza specifically. And who knows if what he says    More
 
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 BECKY OHLSEN

Pre-Midnight Express

Secret Kebab will serve you anything (sometimes), so long as it’s kebab.


Food Reviews & Stories
Secret Kebab, as the name might suggest, is a kebab-smuggling operation, steered by the unseen hand of a shadowy, mustachioed figure known as Alparslan the Turk, who is also suspected of being a li   More
 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Eat Mobile 2011: Start Your Own Food Cart!


Food Reviews & Stories
It’s time to get out of the rat race, man, time to be your own boss. Quit your job, give your manager the finger and make your own way. Over 600 food cart-owners can’t be wrong—there’s gold in   More
 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 WW Culture Staff

Eat Mobile 2011: Pod Profusion


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
 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

Eat Mobile 2011: Cartache


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
 
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

Can I Get A Ramen?

One man’s quest for the best bowl in Portland.


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
 
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 NICK ZUKIN

The Money In The Cup


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
 
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

What About Decaf?


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
 
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE

A TOAST To Craft Distilleries


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
 
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 BEN WATERHOUSE
 

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