Restaurant Guide Portlanders are not big on dessert. It’s not that we’re health conscious, exactly—it’s that we indulge elsewhere. Or so says Jeff McCarthy, the former pastry chef at closed-down Ten 01 and   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The truest essence of this film can be stirred up from the angsty sediment in the YouTube comments section for its trailer. Here in the stinky, putrid underpinnings of the Web, pubescent humans    More

Food Reviews & Stories [NETHERLANDS] Established by Dutch immigrants in Beaverton 40 years ago, the market is the only 100 percent full-service Dutch store in the Northwest. Lia Middelhoven and her husband, Hans, who both immigrated from Holland after World War II, have owned the tiny trove of rarities since 2001. From ja   More

Food Reviews & Stories Richard Day-Reynolds was born to barbecue. The Tennessee native bellies up to his carbon-black Traeger grill as though he entered the world with basting brush in hand, destined to slow-cook beef and pork into tender, juicy submission. It’s everything barbecue should be: messy, sloppy and too g   More

Food Reviews & Stories This coyly named breakfast-and-lunch joint, whose claim to fame is pancake griddles built right into its dining tables, offers playful renditions of gourmet standards like the Slappy Benedict ($10) and a Brie-and-sliced-pear grilled cheese ($7, with fries). The pancake batter ($5, about enough for t   More

Food Reviews & Stories Waiting for a table at Slappy Cakes is like spending half an hour in a Betty Crocker-themed nightmare. A slew of ravenous customers squirms in the cheerfully decorated entryway, drooling in a thick ha ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories As we huddle around a tiny table crowded with broodjes, koffie and kaas, circled in the soft embrace of cheerful candy shelves and old wooden bookcases, Lia Middelhoven leans back in her chair and bea ...   More

News You've heard tell of his mystical existence, been privy to legends of his hulking orange figure bumbling through the city streets, hugging bewildered children and shaking his block-shaped booty. But until now, much of his persona has been shrouded in mystery. A recent romp on YouTube uncovered this revealing, up-close footage of Tillamook Cheese mascot...   More

Food Reviews & Stories If “bacon-wrapped” is the ultimate food prefix, “on a waffle” is the ultimate suffix. The battered blank canvas has long been the object of foodie affection in Portland, and br ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories Richard Day-Reynolds was born to barbecue. The Tennessee native bellies up to his carbon-black Traeger grill as though he entered the world with basting brush in hand, destined to slow-cook beef and p ...   More