Food Reviews & Stories [BAKERY] You’ve already tasted Julie Richardson and Matt Kappler’s homey baked goods at farmers markets across the city, but don’t pass up a stop in the pair’s welcoming Hillsdale cafe, which kinda feels like Starbucks with good cookies and a soul. Nibble on a ham-and-Gruy&eg   More

Food Reviews & Stories [GIFT-WORTHY GROCERIES] Named in honor of their mothers’ maiden handles, Tim Wilson and Luan Schooler’s Irvington shop is an altar to all things foodie—selling excellent cheeses both local and imported, wines, pickles and mustards, chocolates and other sweets at fair, not cheap, pr   More

Food Reviews & Stories [SALT] “Selmelier” Mark Bitterman’s adorable, flower-festooned shop is devoted to salt—yep, salt—more than 50 types of exotic finishing salts from 20-plus countries so far. It’s worth a trip just to taste-test his varieties, from India’s coarse black volcani   More

Food Reviews & Stories [SPICES, SALTS] This new high-end spice shop doesn’t have the breadth of Penzey’s Spices or the obsessive depth of the Meadow, but it has a super-accessible location—making it a fun, chic place to taste and sniff your way through the world, and buy a few small gifts while you&rsquo   More

Food Reviews & Stories [BEER] This dimly lit North Mississippi ‘hood beer shop’s business cards proudly read: “The second best beer shop in Portland.” Who wouldn’t want to buy Belgian and German suds, sixers of PBR and beloved micros from owner Mike Waite, with a sense of humor like that? Wai   More

Food Reviews & Stories [EUROMANCE] Before the farmers market boom, the Food Network and ingredient porn, PastaWorks provided locals with a bucolic vision of how seductive food can be: roomy bins piled high with pretty local produce; a meat counter where the butcher will explain what guanciale is (and has pig intestine on    More

Food Reviews & Stories Michael Liu’s mall boasts Malaysian, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese restaurants, a Starbucks, a tea shop, bakery, jeweler, bulk candy bin, bubble tea counter, dentist and marble statuary seller, but the core of the beast is the expansive Fubonn supermarket itself, which stocks every Asian sta   More

Food Reviews & Stories [FLOUR] With its daily factory tours, gigantic antique millstone and oversized red barn decor attracting tourists and carb fiends, the bucolic headquarters of Bob Moore’s flour empire is basically the Tillamook Cheese Factory of Milwaukie. It’s also a bulk-bin wonderland that scoops out    More

Food Reviews & Stories [EUROMANCE] Before the farmers market boom, the Food Network and ingredient porn, PastaWorks provided locals with a bucolic vision of how seductive food can be: roomy bins piled high with pretty local produce; a meat counter where the butcher will explain what guanciale is (and has pig intestine on    More

Food Reviews & Stories [EUROMANCE] Before the farmers market boom, the Food Network and ingredient porn, PastaWorks provided locals with a bucolic vision of how seductive food can be: roomy bins piled high with pretty local produce; a meat counter where the butcher will explain what guanciale is (and has pig intestine on    More