Bite Club The Bite Club has been smitten with ballsy New York chef/author Anthony Bourdain ever since we picked up his greasy restaurant exposé Kitchen Confidential back in 2000. After touring the culina ...   More

Bite Club "Blood pudding," says Harold Nath, reading from a package of Colombian Morcilla Negra sold at Island Foods, his Micronesian and African market. "Beef blood, rice and bread crumbs. It sounds like...blo ...   More

Bite Club Lauro Kitchen nabbed Bite Club's vote for WW's Restaurant of the Year by virtue of its super-relaxed neighborhood vibe and those preserved lemons chef David Machado tosses into his authentic Moroccan ...   More

Bite Club When Bite Club checked in with Dahlia Cafe owner Karen Harding last Wednesday, she was busy perfecting her spuds. Frying up sweet potatoes, russets and Yukons--with garlic, without garlic, with olive ...   More

Bite Club Really, the Bite Club simply had no idea there were so many kinds of bottled water, we realized as we stared at the West Burnside Fred Meyer's expansive H2O selection. "They want 'sparkling water,'" s ...   More

Bite Club Talk about a grease fire: Two weeks ago, New York's James Beard Foundation, the nation's leading champion of gastronomical causes, had what amounted to a four-alarm kitchen blaze. Foundation President ...   More

Bite Club With school season in full swing, Bite Club's childhood bouts of attention-deficit disorder have returned as well. We just can't decide how to better ourselves--this week is brimming with chances to b ...   More

Bite Club "In America, festival food is bad food," says Michael Hebberoy, the co-owner of ripe. He's right. And we're not talking about Rose Festival Fun Center eats, either. The cuisine at last year's sophisti ...   More

Bite Club With all the hoopla over the Oregon Liquor Control Commission's new plan to plop hard alcohol outlets in grocery stores, you would've thought the state's booze police had shed its notoriously stuffy i ...   More

Bite Club "I think 'raw' is an awful word," Ani Phyo says. "It's 'war' spelled backwards. It makes you think of a raw oyster bar, or raw meat, or 'I've fallen and slipped and rubbed my elbow raw.'"Phyo's the co ...   More