Food Reviews & Stories Owner Chris Kang’s mission is admirable: spice up staid sushi by offering Japanese “fusion” This plays out in “new style” sushi dishes made with the fish of your choice—tuna, salmon, albacore, yellowtail or octopus—served as a roll and covered in jalapeño slices and sesame seeds, all resting in a ta More
Dish Review
Food Reviews & Stories Owner Chris Kang’s mission is admirable: spice up staid sushi by offering Japanese “fusion” This plays out in “new style” sushi dishes made with the fish of your choice—tuna, salmon, albacore, yellowtail or octopus—served as a roll and covered in jalapeño slices and sesame seeds, all resting in a ta More
Dish Review
Food Reviews & Stories Big Daddy's BBQ beckons from the corner of Southeast Hawthorne and 30th Avenue with flame-painted windows, red roof and requisite smoker. The A-frame provides a nice place to hang out, chat up the friendly servers, and watch ESPN on two televisions. Owner Steve Anderson offers every Southern dish kn More
Dish Review
Food Reviews & Stories After the decline of her NoPo Italian restaurant, Mama Gianetta's, Janet Penner hatched a plan to remake the place as a barbecue joint. She and chef Roberta Bond came up with their own special sauce and menu; they call it "Pan-Southern Northwest Barbecue," which is most easily described as "less sug More
Rivers' Run
Go for the view and the confident, comforting food. Stay for the dessert.
Food Reviews & Stories The ghosts of restaurants past still haunt Rivers, one of Portland's best riverside dining rooms. But the restaurant's Northwest-influenced comfort food continues to be consistently good enough to riv ... More
NORTHWEST CLASSIC
Epicure's new dinner menu isn't revolutionary, culinarily speaking, but offers winning basics.
Food Reviews & Stories On the quiet corner of Northwest 17th Avenue and Flanders Street, sandwiched between the trendy, restaurant-drenched neighborhoods of Northwest and the Pearl, Epicure has steadily built its clientele ... More
RAW FLAVOR
Two new Northeast Portland sushi slingers roll out neighborhood appeal.
Food Reviews & Stories Northeast Broadway suffers from a dining identity crisis, as the street's not so much a neighborhood as a bipolar episode. There's the lunchtime crowd of Lloyd Center office trons versus tony Irvingto ... More
Italian Dress-Up
Mingo goes urbane--in Beaverton?
Food Reviews & Stories Empire-building can be a tough job, especially for restaurant owners and chefs. Recent conquests often get more loving attention than old stalwarts. So it goes with Mingo, the new incarnation of North ... More
Locally Rooted
Lucy's Table is laden with fresh seasonal style.
Food Reviews & Stories There are more fresh, local and seasonal ingredients in this town than you can shake a free-range drumstick at. In recent years a cult of chefs and diners alike has searched the Pacific Northwest for ... More
Grill Love
Two BBQ newcomers vie for space on Portland's grill.
Food Reviews & Stories When it comes to smoking, saucing and sucking meat from the bone, few places really deliver. With only a handful of inspiring examples of down-home cooking, Portland's not exactly known as the capital ... More
From A to Zeba
The brothers Grider get the lounge part right at their downtown restaurant.
Food Reviews & Stories Working for the man sucks. So when brothers Peter and Jeremy Grider tired of that, they decided to pursue Jeremy's lifelong dream of owning a restaurant. Last spring the pair opened Zeba, a Mediterran ... More
Top Articles from Melanie Jennings
Italian Dress-Up
Mingo goes urbane--in Beaverton? Rivers' Run
Go for the view and the confident, comforting food. Stay for the dessert. Locally Rooted
Lucy's Table is laden with fresh seasonal style. Grill Love
Two BBQ newcomers vie for space on Portland's grill. RAW FLAVOR
Two new Northeast Portland sushi slingers roll out neighborhood appeal. From A to Zeba
The brothers Grider get the lounge part right at their downtown restaurant. NORTHWEST CLASSIC
Epicure's new dinner menu isn't revolutionary, culinarily speaking, but offers winning basics. Dish Review
Dish Review
Dish Review
Mingo goes urbane--in Beaverton? Rivers' Run
Go for the view and the confident, comforting food. Stay for the dessert. Locally Rooted
Lucy's Table is laden with fresh seasonal style. Grill Love
Two BBQ newcomers vie for space on Portland's grill. RAW FLAVOR
Two new Northeast Portland sushi slingers roll out neighborhood appeal. From A to Zeba
The brothers Grider get the lounge part right at their downtown restaurant. NORTHWEST CLASSIC
Epicure's new dinner menu isn't revolutionary, culinarily speaking, but offers winning basics. Dish Review
Dish Review
Dish Review
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