Food Reviews & Stories Lucere's name is the Latin verb "to shine," though chef Pascal Sauton's impeccable Parisian credentials make its French pronunciation (lu-sehr) more than fitting. And shine it does.The mirrored wa ... More
RISING SUN
Lucere capitalizes on glistening scenery and blinding culinary skill.
Food Reviews & Stories Lucere's name is the Latin verb "to shine," though chef Pascal Sauton's impeccable Parisian credentials make its French pronunciation (lu-sehr) more than fitting. And shine it does.The mirrored wa ... More
SIDE KICKS
Portland's baby bistro movement rolls on.
Food Reviews & Stories Long before the recent economic decline in America encouraged people to eat more modestly, in Paris the "baby bistro" movement was in full sway. Great chefs like Michel Rostang and Guy Savoy opene ... More
Day After Day
The Daily Cafe's foray into dinner proves to be a welcome evolution.
Food Reviews & Stories For most of its short happy life, the Daily Cafe in the Pearl District has been a lively breakfast, brunch and lunch spot; and for weeks after it began serving dinners, a sandwich board on the sid ... More
A View to a Grill
Portland City Grill makes you go high, but does it take you to new heights?
Food Reviews & Stories If you were a patron of Atwater's, the restaurant that occupied the 30th floor of Big Pink for most of the past two decades, you'll be shocked when you turn the corner from the long corridor into ... More
Madame Butterfly: The Program
A review about a restaurant named for an opera written in the style of a musical. Got it?
Food Reviews & Stories Puccini makes an unexpected appearance in Portland and visits Madame Butterfly, a new Sino-Mediterranean restaurant downtown. As a result of his intriguing meal, he decides to rewrite his opera as ... More
Silverton Ho
Sleepy Silverton is waking up with the Oregon Garden, the Frank Lloyd Wright house and the Silver Grille.
Food Reviews & Stories Even destination restaurants benefit from their proximity to other seductive attractions. Tina's and the Joel Palmer House (in Dundee and Dayton, respectively) have Yamhill County vineyards and wi ... More
Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Nancy Lee's and the Foothill Broiler take you back to the future.
Food Reviews & Stories As the joke has it, nostalgia just isn't what it used to be. But two very popular Portland institutions are doing their best to undo that saying, each with its own distinct way of evoking the past ... More
Bar Fly
While Lush is first a place to drink, the food has much ambition.
Food Reviews & Stories Defiantly obscure, Lush presents a faceless faŤade to the world. It has no obvious sign, and from the noirish street its inky interior scarcely beckons. You have to know where you're going; otherwise ... More
This Old House
The Sellwood House is a cozy place to take in a neighborhood meal.
Food Reviews & Stories Neighborhood restaurants come in lots of shapes. There's the bumptious tavern, the placid storefront, the intimate dining room. Portland has more than its share of converted houses, and since many ... More
Watch Your Speed
An ambitious new restaurant in Northwest executes complex dishes with finesse.
Food Reviews & Stories Ronnie Vance, the chef and owner of a pleasant new restaurant just off Northwest 21st Avenue, has a penchant for invoking names from the world of entertainment. The restaurant's appellation stems ... More
Top Articles from Roger J. Porter
Your Guide to Legin
This legendary Chinese restaurant offers hundreds of items on the menu, but you don't need to try them all unless you want to. What's Wrong With the French
An ultra-long and fine meal at a French restaurant inspires our critic to ponder the differences between us and them. Technicolor Flavors
The hot peppers and flaming colors of Andina deliver a Peruvian education in the Pearl. Two Starches?
Cafe Dacx is a pleasant new neighborhood restaurant that needs to find a focus. Start with the Cup O'Lava
JoPa is staking a claim on Italian dishes and one wicked dessert. BIG GLASSES, SMALL PLATES
Meet Navarre, the newest kid on the block. Elephants in the Midst
The North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival didn't stink. Madame Butterfly: The Program
A review about a restaurant named for an opera written in the style of a musical. Got it? Hail To The Chef
Lucere's Pascal Sauton is routinely charged with being a nice guy. And sometimes nice guys finish first. A Bone to Pick
The latest 'cue hut in town, All Yall's, takes too many lessons from the world of fast food rather than the world of the pit.
This legendary Chinese restaurant offers hundreds of items on the menu, but you don't need to try them all unless you want to. What's Wrong With the French
An ultra-long and fine meal at a French restaurant inspires our critic to ponder the differences between us and them. Technicolor Flavors
The hot peppers and flaming colors of Andina deliver a Peruvian education in the Pearl. Two Starches?
Cafe Dacx is a pleasant new neighborhood restaurant that needs to find a focus. Start with the Cup O'Lava
JoPa is staking a claim on Italian dishes and one wicked dessert. BIG GLASSES, SMALL PLATES
Meet Navarre, the newest kid on the block. Elephants in the Midst
The North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival didn't stink. Madame Butterfly: The Program
A review about a restaurant named for an opera written in the style of a musical. Got it? Hail To The Chef
Lucere's Pascal Sauton is routinely charged with being a nice guy. And sometimes nice guys finish first. A Bone to Pick
The latest 'cue hut in town, All Yall's, takes too many lessons from the world of fast food rather than the world of the pit.
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