Food Reviews & Stories
Although some Portlanders see a dark shadow over the newly opened Belly, which resides on the corner of Northeast Fremont Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the same space as the short-liv ...
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Food Reviews & Stories
South Waterfront needs a little character. Not just the kind you build with a multimillion-dollar aerial tram, but the kind that comes with dents and dings—a little tarnish on all that newly min ...
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Food Reviews & Stories
Southeast Division Street’s new Bar Avignon has transformed the space that once belonged to vegetarian outpost Red & Black Cafe. The area that used to feature a newspaper clipping of Bruce Sprin ...
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Milwaukie’s Casa de Tamales puts the real casa in cooking.
Food Reviews & Stories
Canby Asparagus Farm has been wrapping and steaming farm-fresh tamales at local farmers markets for more than a decade, but since November its tamales have found a permanent home, along with a full Me ...
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Although the geoduck, the horse penis-sized bivalve around which Anthony Bourdain wrapped his manly lips in the Pacific Northwest episode of No Reservations, doesn’t lurk beneath the beaches on ...
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Food Reviews & Stories
When the Daily Grind on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard closed last fall, so did its vegetarian deli. Grant Dixon, who had supplied the deli’s hot food since 2005 and who owns a local soy company ...
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Food Reviews & Stories
According to Mark Saldaña, one of three owners of Good Neighbor Pizza, the best pizza is simple pizza. “There’s no secret to what I do. I try to use the least amount of ingredients ...
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A Kiwi-inspired cafe spreads the love one spoke at a time.
Food Reviews & Stories
Engaged couple Evan Dohrmann and Ali Jepson got the idea for their recently opened Little Red Bike Cafe in St. Johns while traveling around the South Seas three years ago. After sustaining a long-dist ...
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Miss Delta packs a punch with good old southern charm.
Food Reviews & Stories
I’ve sorely missed—although I never met—Southeast Portland’s Delta Cafe of the ’90s. When I discovered the Delta after moving to town in 2002, it was seven years old and ...
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Food Reviews & Stories
Sonya Damtew grew up in Ethiopia in an Eritrean family—Eritrea shares its southern border with Ethiopia. But she’s lived in Portland for the past 11 years, working most of that time with t ...
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