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 Valentine’s Day is all about romance. And by “romance,” I mean sex. Whether you’re trying to get sex or you’re trying    More

Featured Stories Photos By Cameron BrowneUntil recently, a burger made on your own backyard grill was better than anything you could get from a diner, drive-in or drive-thru. Only with the rise of the “bistro bu ...   More

Featured Stories There’s something wonderful about the aroma of bread baking. Even Franz with its Wonder-soft loaves smells good when the ovens are on. But Mexican bakeries—panaderias—are a whole oth ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Beaverton’s Aloha Mall is a nexus of good eats. That’s not sarcasm. With two of outer-PDX’s best taco trucks (Ely’s and Mexico Lindo), plus this Salvadoran gem, it truly is. The sopa de pata ($9) is heavily seasoned, but gelatin-rich with odorless tripe and vegetables permeat   More

Food Reviews & Stories The enormous menu here offers the Salvadoran food of the cook and owner, Silvia Espino Vargaz, the Guatemalan food of her husband, Jaime Sandoval, and the Mexican dishes Vargaz has cooked elsewhere. La Guanaquita sells the best pupusas in the metro area—freshly made and ungreasy with well-seas   More

Featured Stories BEYOND BURRITOS: Cheese pupusas and a Salvadorian beer at La Guanaquita in Hillsboro. IMAGE: chrisryanphoto.com“It’s like Mexican food. This here, it’s like a quesadilla,” the ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories There are only four tables inside this downtown Beaverton lunch spot, which also sells pupusas at the Beaverton Farmers Market. Unfortunately, the pupusas—soggy and pulled straight from the fridge—are the worst item on the menu. However, the tamales, also available at New Seasons, ar   More

Food Reviews & Stories Hidden in the back of a tiny strip mall across from Syun Izakaya, this Guatemalan restaurant and bakery can sometimes be worth seeking out. You can hear the cook pat out pupusas for each order. They’re generous with the fillings, but the flavors are unbalanced. The curtido is average at be   More

Food Reviews & Stories Recently reopened, Ma Toña’s unfortunately offers an uneven experience. Nearly every dish is bland, like the cook forgot to stock salt in the kitchen. Squash, carrots, cabbage and tripe float in the complex, murky broth of the sopa de pata, along with the namesake foot and an ear of   More