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Let Me Eat Cake

Living on starvation wages doesn’t mean you have to starve.


News
For the past six months, I’ve been feeding two people on $35 a week. That’s right—$35 a week. Five dollars a day, $2.50 per person, 83 cents a meal. I live in a normal city lot; have    More
 
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 KAT MERCK

Buckman Brewery


Food Reviews & Stories
Through the north doors of the cavernous brewery/warehouse/meeting room that is the Green Dragon, you will find a patio. There you will find a Quonset hut. And in front of this Quonset hut, you will f   More
 
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 KAT MERCK

Food Cart Review: Grindhouse Coffee


Food Cart Reviews
There’s nothing particularly sexy about the intersection of North Rosa Parks Way and Denver Avenue, but there it is, out on the sidewalk: a black-and-white sandwich board announcing “Sexy Coffee   More
 
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 KAT MERCK

Cheap Eats 2011: John Street Cafe


Food Reviews & Stories
Between the pastel paint on the walls and abundance of chicken breast, blue cheese and artichoke hearts on the menu, you’d be forgiven for feeling like you’d hitched a ride back to 1993 upon ope   More
 
Monday, March 7, 2011 KAT MERCK

Cheap Eats 2011: King Burrito


Food Reviews & Stories
You don’t go to a place like King Burrito sober. It’s possible, mind you, but such phenomena as coin-operated dispensers of religious-themed temporary tattoos, inexplicably hard-laminated copies   More
 
Monday, March 7, 2011 KAT MERCK

Boozin’ With Bruce


Drink
 Summer patio drinking at dog-friendly establishments is one of the much-heralded joys of Portland, but like seemingly everything great about Puddletown, what happens the    More
 
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 KAT MERCK

Drink 2011: The Fixin' To


Drink
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Monday, January 24, 2011 KAT MERCK

Toro Bravo: Restaurant Guide 2010


Food Reviews & Stories
5-10 pm Sunday-Thursday, 5-11 pm Friday-Saturday. No reservations for groups under seven. $-$$ Inexpensive-moderate.   More
 
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 KAT MERCK

Laurelhurst Market: Restaurant Guide 2010


Food Reviews & Stories
Butcher shop 10 am-7 pm daily; restaurant 5-10 pm Monday-Saturday, 5-9 pm Sunday. $$-$$$ Moderate-expensive.[ENLIGHTENED STEAKHOUSE] Let’s just get this out of the way now—Laurelhurst Market is indeed a butcher shop, but it’s not that kind of butcher shop…you won’t fin   More
 
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 KAT MERCK

Without A Hitch


Bar Reviews
In this age of Yelp, it’s hard not to sympathize with The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St., 477-4995, thefixinto.com), whose vintage-trailer logo and menu full of Ritz crackers and Ro-Tel see ...   More
 
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 KAT MERCK
 

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