Food Reviews & Stories No matter the day of the week, Pause is likely hopping with happy diners and, in the early evening, a few vertically challenged types throwing back Shirleys and Roys. You’ve been warned. The Cuban sandwich ($8) layered with pulled pork, house-cured ham and house-pickled zucchini is a favorite.   More

Food Reviews & Stories Love variety? E’Njoni’s veggie combo ($8.95 lunch, $9.95 dinner) offers okra curry, stewed spinach, lentils in berbere sauce and beet stew if you want it. Inject some meat into your meal with another favorite: hamli wot ($12.95), a spicy sautéed chicken with spinach. Although the    More

Food Reviews & Stories Decorated simply with bamboo, Papa G’s is less about style than sustainability. The tempeh Reuben ($5.99) looks tiny but packs a filling punch—a scallion biscuit slapped with vegan Thousand Island dressing and kraut, topped with a meaty wild-rice tempeh burger. The spicy barbecue tofu sa   More

Food Reviews & Stories Andy Ramos’ restaurant serves mainly lowland Peruvian cuisine—marinated and skewered meats, ceviche, meat and vegetable sautées. The steamy and tasty, powdered-sugar-dusted empanadas ($4.50) are filled with a blend of ground beef, peas, carrots and onions, and fried until golden.    More

Food Reviews & Stories Open since last summer on Northeast Alberta Street, Radio Room, designed by Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects (the big guns behind Hotel Lucia and 50 Plates), stands out. The former 1949 Texaco gas ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories On Memorial Day weekend, a Portland pig was born—Blue Pig Cafe on Southeast Division Street. Owners Jay Azevedo and Mike Garofalo, who became friends while working at Southeast’s Artemis F ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories When you’re scarfing down a plate of Evoe’s sautéed Padrón peppers, look out—the next one you pop in your mouth might bite back. The new Hawthorne spot’s chef, Ke ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Andy Ramos doesn’t serve guinea pig. Not that he doesn’t want to. The co-owner of Northeast Sandy Boulevard’s new Peruvian restaurant, Nasca, says he checked with the health departme ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories You might have thought that when Apizza Scholls expanded into the space next door nearly two years ago the hour-plus waits would slim. You might have also thought that since chef-owner Brian Spangler and his crew no longer craft all of the 24-hour-fermented pizza dough by hand (they’ve finally   More

Food Reviews & Stories Plenty of Portland restaurants tout seasonal, fresh-from-the-farm menus, but few take that ethos to such lengths as the Beaumont neighborhood’s Fife, where local farmers and ranchers deliver the goods daily to chef-owner Marco Shaw and where these deliveries, in turn, dictate the menu. A Fife    More