Food Reviews & Stories With its seriously tiny dimensions, Victorian-wallpapered hominess and trashy gold vinyl seats, Junior’s is like stumbling into your grandma’s kitchen after the all-night disco in Jersey. Vegans can find their own solace in the tofu scrambles and somewhat dry potato hashes, but the truth   More

Food Reviews & Stories At $8 to $15 a plate on its rotating menu, this domestic, friendly and nigh on invisible Sellwood cafe strains our definition of “cheap” eats, but given the succulence of the food, it remains a bargain. Lili hews to the simple, well-made and Continental for dinner dishes—including    More

Food Reviews & Stories Oh, I know, it’s tiny and everybody’s so gosh-darn emolicious in there that you don’t know what to do except bury your head in one of the many zines lining the back wall. But the coffee’s strong and freshly brewed, and the sandwiches, in particular the “decadent”    More

Food Reviews & Stories For a Sellwood counter spot, Mekong boasts some crazy modern-eclectic design taste, with an inset wall panel consisting of floor-to-ceiling pebbles restrained only by chicken wire, behind deco bamboo pillars and a giant butcher-block table. The food suits the graphic-design palette, as well—a    More

Food Reviews & Stories You from Chicago? You miss Chicago? You come here. Chicago’s Italian beef ($7.65 whole, $3.95 half) is just as strange a mutant food as Cincinnati chili: a big pile of marinated beef stuffed in bread soggy with gravy, all of it covered in jardinière (a French word meaning “some Po   More

Food Reviews & Stories The neighborhood around lower Division isn’t known for its culinary cornucopia, but Nosh’s $4.50 boxes (sandwich of the day, pickle, chips, cookie) make this pastel, nice-to-the-point-of-twee sandwich shop one of Southeast’s choicest spots for a cheap, good lunch. That said, it&rsq   More

Food Reviews & Stories This brand-new addition to Portland’s sterling coterie of Lebanese cuisine is much more casual than most—it looks like they maybe domesticated a Sonoran taqueria—with low-priced pita sandwiches ($5-$6) and Lebanese pizzas ($4-$8) featured prominently on the menu, including the bitt   More

Food Reviews & Stories Creative sushi menu, fresh nigiri, truly stellar tempura, super-low prices, and a great whopping fish kite spread across the far wall. So what’s not to like? Well, you’re going to have to wait, because this place is seriously tiny and seriously popular. Luckily, they’ve developed a   More

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Books The Paris Review was founded in part as a CIA front for co-founder Peter Matthiessen, and has sometimes been as known for its legendarily freewheeling editor George Plimpton as for its sterling conten ...   More