Food Reviews & Stories A sorta divey neighborhood bar next to the Moreland Theater that caters to the fun-loving boomers of Sellwood and their occasionally younger neighbors. Although it looks slightly cavelike, the personalities are sunny and everyone seems to know you. The bar food is above average, but the cocktail lis   More

Special Section Three dollars may seem like a lot for some hot liquid, but any Portlander will tell you that coffee in this town is more Orient Express than Amtrak. Crisp espresso, sinewy foam, knowledgeable baristas ...   More

Books The summer before I left home for college, I made extra money babysitting for my gynecologist. I spent most of my time trying to avoid eye contact with the taxidermic specimens populating the main flo ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Bartender’s choice: Shuffleboard!Once among the only jazz clubs in Portland, the Blue Monk is (sadly) transforming its cozy performance space into a “Basement Lounge,” with billiards, darts and shuffleboard. Presumably, this will put the Monk in competition for the heavy-drinking,    More

Food Reviews & Stories We Portlanders are coffee people. In our admiration and appreciation of coffee, we rank with the world’s most serious drinkers: the Swedes, the Japanese, the Frisco kids. But for all our genuine adoration of coffee and cafes, we can’t match bona fide coffee towns in sheer variety of high   More

Food Reviews & Stories Barista, a new cafe in the Pearl, is a wink to those who toil in coffee’s working class, where owner and well-known local barista Billy Wilson has deep roots. The cafe is a naked expression of the love of coffee that has defined the beverage’s curates—Wilson among them—for th   More

Food Reviews & Stories Portland's newest and craziest cafe is the micro-est micro-roaster in town—and perhaps in the country. In addition to a minimalist space—a mere 50 square feet—partners Adam McGovern (of Coffeehouse NW) and Aric Miller are roasting a changing selection of coffees in inconceivably ti   More