Food Cart Reviews
What’s roujiamo supposed to taste like? Honestly, I have
no idea. Prickly Ash’s version of the flatbread sandwich, China’s answer
to the hamburger, is the only version I’ve had. The Miss
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Restaurant Guide
Life on the food frontier can be rugged and lonely. Ask
Johanna Ware. As a child in Chicago, Ware remembers the quizzical
reaction to the “crazy lunches” packed by a mother “who cooked her w
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FeaturesWho's the weird old person hanging around the packs of high school kids at Portland-area haunted houses? The one who reeks of good coffee and cheap gin? Yeah, that’s a Willamette Week writer out reviewing local haunts for Creeper Crawl 2012. Butt...More
Food Reviews & Stories
Oaxaca is famous for inventing one of the world’s great
cheeses. If you know how to pronounce the name of the southern Mexican
state (wah-hah-ka) but not Xochitl or Tlaxcala, you probably owe
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Drank
Seattle’s Elysian Brewing is the pumpkin king of the
Northwest, brewing 13 different pumpkin beers and hosting a massive
pumpkin brew festival that draws entrants from as far away as Norway.
E
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Bar Reviews
Barwares (4605 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com)
exists only because of an architectural fluke. Chef Johanna Ware’s
Asian-leaning restaurant, Smallwares, needs a bar the same si
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Drank
Axes of Evil is a fence mender. Despite
the massive flying skull on the side, Indiana’s Three Floyds Brewing
didn’t make half this beer. (“I didn’t even know that happened,” said
the g
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Food Cart Reviews
The Help ain’t got anything on the sentimental
backstory behind Miss Kate’s Southern Kitchen. According to owner
Charles Hude, the recipes for his Mississippi Marketplace comfort-food
cart w
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Food & DrinkWe're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers.