Food & Drink Public documents show that C.E. John Company plans to construct a four-story mixed-use building at Northwest 23rd Avenue and Raleigh Street, on the lot presently occupied by the   More

Food & Drink We've received a number of requests from readers for an interactive map of the restaurants in our 2011 Restaurant Guide, so we made one: View Willamette Week's 2011 Restaurant Guide in a full screen map...   More

Food & Drink Here are the details on this week's new liquor license applications:Downtown Irish-themed bar chain Kells has applied to open Kells Brew Pub in the currently empty building at 210 NW 21st Ave.Al...   More

Food & Drink As you may have noticed from the scroller on the home page, our Restaurant Guide is out today. I think it's pretty good. It is not, however, perfect. Four errors have so far been brought to my attention. The person who finds lucky number five (should it exist) will receive his or her choice of...   More

Performance “Don’t you understand the rather comic dimensions of it all?” Cash (Duffy Epstein), the martini-swilling plastic surgeon, asks Mr. Hadid (John San Nicholas), a vaguely Asian cab driver, in the   More

Restaurant Guide 2011 WILLAMETTE VALLEY: A stop for Mexican mariscos in Woodburn is mandatory; our favorites are Nuevo Aranda’s (450 N 1st St.) and Mariscos El Zarandeado (1032 N Pacific Highway). In Silverton, treat you   More

Restaurant Guide 2011 The secret to great barbecue, according to Rodney Muirhead, is this...   More

Restaurant Guide 2011 In late September I was invited to watch Justin Woodward, the endlessly inventive chef at Castagna, prepare several items from his signature “snack” course in the restaurant’s immaculate kitc   More

Food & Drink It looks like Mount Hood is about to get a second brewery, albeit not as high up the slope as the venerable Ice Ax Grill. Solera Brewery has applied for a brewpub license at 4945 Baseline Drive, some 16 miles south of Hood River.Speaking of hood river, someone has applied for a limited license for a business called Cascade Pet Camp, which   More

Food & Drink Reader Joe Gonzalez writes, "Votes were taken and the winning face of this mutant Bell Pepper from my wife's garden is Buddy Hackett." I think it it rather resembles Geoffrey Palmer. You?
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