Requiem for a View

Amadeus Manor has the best view in town

Food Reviews & Stories People have stopped looking up in restaurants. We’re so busy Instagramming our plates, or poring over our meal’s backstory, that a great view seems superfluous. People now chat excitedly about   More

 

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Chicken Strip Club

Two medical-marijuana rappers are making their chicken and waffles into the best soul food on MLK.

Food Reviews & Stories Waffles are arguably the least interesting of J. Mack’s projects. Born James McClendon in 1967...   More

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 AARON MESH

The Garbanzo Gauntlet

Cedo's makes the best falafel in town.

Food Reviews & Stories “We felt sorry for Portlanders because they don’t have good falafel,” says the tall, trim man with a smile. “So we had to come here.” That’s Sam Hazza, a Palestine native who moved   More

 

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 KELLY CLARKE

Bull In a China Shop

Who pays $22 for Yin-Yang Shrimp?

Food Reviews & Stories A dish called Dragonwell Lionhead summons imagery straight outta Game of Thrones: writhing lizards hatching from the skulls of your enemies doused in Sriracha—or something like that. Part of the   More

 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 AARON MESH

There’s a Bowl For That

Boke Bowl is a polished, pragmatic take on ramen.

Food Reviews & Stories With its clean lines, design-conscious self-branding and techy iconography, Boke Bowl’s interior looks more than anything like an Apple store.   More

 

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Fizz Without Buzz

Food Reviews & Stories If I wanted to get rich and famous in Portland, I’d open an old-timey soda fountain. I’d call it Dr. Pickwick’s Tonics & Elixirs. I’d fill it with vintage pharmacy bottles and old pa   More

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 RUTH BROWN

Warm and Koozie

Smokehouse 21 isn't Podnah's. But the pork is great.

Food Reviews & Stories The koozies are genius. There’s something inexplicably decadent and wonderful about a restaurant offering a cushy foam barrier to keep your beer cold and your hand warm. Sipping $2 cans of PBR f   More

 

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Mi Mero Mole

Nick Zukin is your new Mexican grandmother.

Food Reviews & Stories The aroma inside Mi Mero Mole is like entering the kitchen of a Mexican grandmother—a heavenly blend of freshly made corn tortillas and simmering spices. She would insist you stay for dinner and   More

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 PENELOPE BASS

Turning Japanese

Love Via Crepes fills its crepes with love (and wasabi mayo).

Food Reviews & Stories Crepes are not something one associates with Japan, but, as a placard on the wall at Love Via Crepes compendiously informs us, it is a street food that traveled the oceans a century back. And li   More

 

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 MATTHEW KORFHAGE

Schmear Apparent

We miss Kettleman’s bagels, too. Who can replace them?

Food Reviews & Stories Kettleman Bagels is in zombie mode. Things have slipped fast since the beloved local bagelry sold out last November to Colorado-based Einstein Bros. Kettleman’s superb boiled bagels...   More

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 PENELOPE BASS