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

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

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

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

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