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The nearest stretch of the Oregon coast
does not yet have the amenities Portlanders have come to expect. The
scenery is great, of course, but high-quality food, drink and
entertainment are in sh
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Food Cart Reviews
It’s common to hear a certain class of foodniks proclaim
the local food-cart craze is over. Which is true—if by “craze” you mean a
“brief period when trained chefs thought it would be cu
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Kingdom come, in Portland as it is in McMinnville. But who’s game?
Food Reviews & Stories
The Kingdom of Roosevelt’s menu may be a minor literary
work, short prose that begins with “Fallow deer heart tartare with his
marrow,” continues to “Eggs in various forms” and closes on
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Bar Reviews
Are you fit for membership to the White Owl Social Club (1305 SE 8th Ave., 236-9672, facebook.com/WhiteOwlSocialClub)?
According to Club propaganda, a $25 fee and pledging your soul to “Ye
Olde
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Portland’s most-hated beer blogger switched to wine.
Drank
Dr. Wort is a gadfly in the Socratic sense: an anonymous
blogger who bites the lumbering steed that is Portland’s brewing scene,
whipping local beer geeks into a fury with what he says is in the
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Food Cart Reviews
I spent much of my week in Belize feeling
various states of queasiness, an extended gut-sickness that culminated
in me carrying a baggie of my own vomit through customs in Houston.
Which is to s
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Beer Guide 2013
Mike Wright looked like a different man a
year ago. When Wright opened his Commons Brewery to a gaggle of local
beer writers last March, he was clean-shaven and wearing a polo shirt,
resembling
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Beer Guide 2013
Do you prefer BridgePort IPA or Full Sail ESB?
The last time Willamette Week published
a beer guide, that was the hot debate. The editor of our 1999 guide—a
guy named Jeff Alworth—couldn’t
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Food Reviews & Stories
Only a few years ago, Montavilla’s reputation revolved
around car lots and hookers. That stretch of 82nd Avenue is still a
great place to find a 2008 Silverado, but on a recent Friday night, the
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Books
You don’t need a sophisticated algorithm
or large database to calculate how many pennants (zero) that Billy
“Moneyball” Beane has won in 15 years running the Oakland Athletics. But
even if
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