Food Reviews & Stories 11:30 am-2 pm Monday-Friday, 5:30-10 pm Monday-Saturday. $$$ Expensive.[SUSHI] Restaurant Murata is small and unassuming, nestled in a business plaza next door to its beret-wearing neighbor Carafe. If you find Murata, you’ll be rewarded with all sorts of just-off-the-boat fresh and unusual sus   More

Food Reviews & Stories Those old men bending their knees in the North Park Blocks don’t know how close they are to deep-fried bacon. If they did, they’d drop their bocce balls and head for Park Kitchen’s dumbfoundingly delicious, lightly battered and fried bacon and green beans, served in a cone with tar   More

Food Reviews & Stories This 15-year-old Hawthorne-neighborhood restaurant doesn’t miss a beat, from its talented staff, many of whom have been there for years, to the fresh, mostly Mediterranean menu. The top-selling and always delicious house pasta is the tortiglione in a slowly simmered, spicy vodka-spiked red sau   More

Food Reviews & Stories The house salad here isn’t complicated, with lettuce and pickled carrots spritzed in a light almond vinaigrette, but if you order it, be prepared to sink your teeth into some of the best lettuce you’ve ever had. That sounds strange, but Three Square Grill elevates straight-shooting veget   More

Food Reviews & Stories Cafe Castagna is, at its core, an any-night-of-the-week neighborhood standby next door to the white-tablecloth, more special occasion Castagna. But beyond the burger, flat-iron and mac-’n’-cheesy offerings, there’s magic to be had in this svelte, minimal dining room. A late-summer    More

Food Reviews & Stories Alu changed hands and pretty much everything else but its name when it reopened in July. The exposed closet of a kitchen is headed by Sean Temple, formerly of Paley’s Place, and the food produced within is generally on the small side, too. The thinly sliced duck prosciutto drizzled with olive    More

Food Reviews & Stories The New Orleans-inspired menu of this North Williams Avenue taproom is racked with fried, stewed and spiced Cajun fare like shrimp étouffée, surf or turf po’ boys and fried pickles. The real deal, however, is farm-direct raw oysters. Owners Tobias Hogan and Ethan Powell don&rsquo   More

Food Reviews & Stories This Alberta Street pie joint, opened in late February, sprang from a popular food cart near Portland State University specializing in thin-crusted, freakishly good pizza, calzones, scarpetta and stromboli. Owner Stephen Ferruzza, whose dad was born in Sicily, favors high-quality ingredients, such a   More

Food Reviews & Stories Wine snobbery got a little more accessible this spring when MetroVino opened across from Tanner Springs Park. The restaurant offers all of its 64 wines by the 1.5-ounce taste or 4.5-ounce glass, thanks to the high-tech Enomatic wine system, a giant behind-the-bar dispenser that keeps wine fresh for    More

Food Reviews & Stories Antipasti is what it’s all about at Caffe Mingo’s more affordable, less formal, sexier next-door neighbor, Bar Mingo. Ten-plus generously proportioned small plates feature everything from fresh discs of pillowy chèvre in a spicy tomato sauce, served with bruschetta, to sauté   More