Bite Club Whether you're spending tomorrow's holiday clutched tight to the familial bosom or patting your contented stomach in remembrance of last week's latkes, most of you merry revelers aren't practicing you ...   More

Bite Club When Bartini (2108 NW Glisan St., 224-7919), Northwest 21st Avenue's newest bar, opened a few weeks ago, it proclaimed itself the city's only "true" martini bar. Proof? A menu of more than 100 gin, vo ...   More

Bite Club "If you're gonna put something in your mouth, it's gotta be special," says Elizabeth Flores, the decorative painter-turned-chocolatier behind Sahagun Handmade Chocolates. Now that's a sweet clich&eacu ...   More

Bite Club Turn off that television set. The Food Network is going live. Producers from the chow-vision channel will be in Portland on Monday to promote Food Network Kitchens Cookbook, a glossy, breakfast-to-des ...   More

Bite Club This holiday weekend means one thing to many Portlanders: wine-tasting in the Valley. The next three days mark an annual bacchanal for oenophiles, when the finest of Oregon's more than 250 winer ...   More

Bite Club When the Bite Club embarked on a Thanksgiving-season grocery safari earlier this week, the food pros behind the counters dispensed holiday cooking tips along with foodstuffs. Heck, with their kn ...   More

Bite Club They're coming. Friends and family--ingrates one and all--inviting themselves to your humble home for a holiday sit down. It'd be oh-so Martha (before the fall) if you could only manage to boil wa ...   More

Bite Club A while back, Bite Club was cruising down a junky stretch of North Mississippi Avenue when--both confused and delighted--we slammed on the brakes of our 1976 Skylark. The culprit? A pink house--gl ...   More

Bite Club If you want to hear a real horror story--ask a chef. From tales of near vivisections to oozing, softball-sized burn blisters, cooking crews routinely scoff at on-the-job dangers that would make of ...   More

Bite Club In restaurant-land, trends tend to clot faster than a pool of port demi-glace. Just last October, WW proclaimed that family-style supper clubs, those jovial elbow jostlers, were the absolute "it ...   More