Secret Kebab will serve you anything (sometimes), so long as it’s kebab.
Food Reviews & Stories
Secret Kebab, as the name might suggest, is a
kebab-smuggling operation, steered by the unseen hand of a shadowy,
mustachioed figure known as Alparslan the Turk, who is also suspected of
being a li
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Books
It is natural to assume that the topography of a city is
fundamentally constant—that some half-distant ancestors found a
promising patch of earth and proceeded to sow the seeds for what would
ripen, as if inevitably, into the place we know well. But cities are
things of tumult
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Sara Wheeler’s The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle
(FSG, 315 pages, $26) quite literally describes a circle: Wheeler—a
London-based journalist—travels counterclockwise, in pie-sha
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This 82nd avenue joint is delicately Chinese and discreetly Korean.
Food Reviews & Stories
Chinese Delicacy restaurant, despite the
name, is not exactly a Chinese place—at least, not in any simple way.
Your first hint should be on the tiny
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Until relatively recently—within the past 50 years, say—no
one had to be told not to waste their food, and certainly not as an
ecological or even public issue. It was simple common sense: Who th
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Food Reviews & Stories
Johns Landing’s unpromising melange of ’70s and ’80s
office frontage might seem an unlikely spot for an old-school rib
joint—Reo’s previous location was in similarly unlikely Aloha—and t
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Food Reviews & Stories
Dwayne Beliakoff’s serially delayed “fast slow food” restaurant has
finally opened in a modernist glass box in Director Park on the South
Park Blocks, just adjacent to a strangely gonadal foun
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Food Reviews & Stories
Muhamed Mujcic-Mufko’s 4-4-2 is Portland’s lone soccer
bar, its walls adorned with the flags of favored teams, from FC Bayern
to the Timbers’ green and yellow.
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Food Reviews & Stories
Best Taste brands itself as “Chinese BBQ,” and the owners aren’t
kidding; this meat bears no resemblance to its American cousin. Right by
the doorway fire-reddened ducks are strung up at the n
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Food Reviews & Stories
Bun Bo Hue is Portland’s signature spot for the restaurant’s eponymous meat-noodle soup. (Bun, by the way, refers to the vermicelli-style noodles; bo to the meat; Hue
to the city in Vietnam; Viet
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