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Zwickelmania 2012 Picks for Portland

Almost every brewery in Oregon will open its doors to the public this weekend. Here's where you should go.

Food & Drink Ever been on a statewide pub crawl? Unless your designated driver has a batmobile, you’re not goin... More

Feb 17, 2012 01:13 pm by PENELOPE BASS | Comments 0

Future Drinking: Feb. 13-16.

This week in OLCC applications.

Food & Drink Apologies for this column's two-week absence. Your future drinker has been under the weather.Silly t... More

Feb 16, 2012 04:37 pm by BEN WATERHOUSE | Comments 0

Kickstart my Heart: Micro-Batch Honey That Tastes Like Your Neighborhood

Food & Drink Kickstart my Heart is a semi-regular blog series on Portland Kickstarter projects we don't hate.At l... More

Feb 13, 2012 03:20 pm by Ruth Brown | Comments 0

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The High Dive: Low Light

Bar Reviews There are three magic words printed in all-caps on a sidewalk sign for The High Dive (1406 SE 12th Ave., 384-2285) that should, in time, make it a favorite neighborhood watering hole: CART FOOD WE ... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

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Schmear Apparent

We miss Kettleman’s bagels, too. Who can replace them?

Food Reviews & Stories Kettleman Bagels is in zombie mode. Things have slipped fast since the beloved local bagelry sold out last November to Colorado-based Einstein Bros. Kettleman’s superb boiled bagels... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by PENELOPE BASS

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Drank: Schwarz (Heater Allen Brewing)

Drank Not many American craft brewers count a Pilsner—the stalwart style that includes big names like Beck’s and Stella—as their signature brew. For marketing purposes, they’re probably too clos ... More

Feb 22, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

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Las Primas

Peruvian sandwiches, punched up.

Food Reviews & Stories In most every language, “sandwich” is a synonym for delicious. Case in point, Las Primas, a new Peruvian joint on North Williams Avenue next to the Box Social, which ditches ceviche for stre ... More

Feb 15, 2012 12:01 am by KELLY CLARKE

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Hotseat: Camas Davis

The Portland Meat Collective founder explains why people want to kill Roger Rabbit.

Q & A When Roger Rabbit was bunnynapped, Camas Davis was blogging. The response to her daily updates on the Portland Meat Collective website wasn’t pretty. ... More

Feb 15, 2012 12:01 am by RUTH BROWN

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Pho Huy

Lean meat, phat flavor.

Food Reviews & Stories That a great bowl of pho need not be all gizzards and tail is blasphemy to some. So call mine the ignorant opinion of a margarine-raised Midwesterner, but I like really nice, clean shaves of nea ... More

Feb 15, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

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Drank: Betsy Ross Golden Ale (Philadelphia’s)

Drank Portland has nearly 40 brewing companies, which get wildly varying amounts of hype. Among the most neglected is Philadelphia’s Steaks & Hoagies. It doesn’t help that the word “Brewing” ... More

Feb 15, 2012 12:01 am by BRIAN YAEGER

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The Conquistador: Spanish Fly

Bar Reviews Since it opened in December, The Conquistador (2045 SE Belmont St.) has been one of the most popular neighborhood spots in Southeast Portland. It’s a creation of Casey Maxwell, owner of the Mata ... More

Feb 15, 2012 12:01 am by AARON SPENCER

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A Pair To Remember

Coppia remains a vinter’s paradise—now with food to match.

Food Reviews & Stories Blind item: What famed Portland director of various Afflecks was recently seen supping at Pearl District dining hotspot Coppia with a statuesque blonde companion? ... More

Feb 8, 2012 12:01 am by AARON MESH

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Food Cart Review: Polish Kitchen

Food Cart Reviews What do Poles eat during the summer? The Polish fare familiar stateside is heavily skewed toward cured meats and root vegetables—foods that are hard to imagine enjoying on Baltic beaches. I ca ... More

Feb 8, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

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The Box Social: Drink In A Box

Bar Reviews A stuffed peacock roosts high on a shelf above the bar at The Box Social (3971 N Williams Ave., bxsocial.com). It’s a bold flash of décor for a bar, yet it doesn’t seem out of place in the in ... More

Feb 8, 2012 12:01 am by PENELOPE BASS

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Drank: Clem’s Cream Ale (Migration Brewing Co.)

Drank The appeal of cream ales lies mostly in nostalgia—the style’s popularity peaked in the ’70s, led by lighter-than-lite Genesee Cream Ale. With Clem’s Cream Ale, Portland’s Migration Brewi ... More

Feb 8, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

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Thai Hard

Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer?

Cover Story Pok Pok? The woman in the woolen hat mouths the words on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where Andy Ricker has opened the latest outpost of his Thai-food realm. She scrunches ... More

Feb 1, 2012 12:01 am by AARON MESH

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A Fine Show

Tony Demes is back with Noisette.

Food Reviews & Stories Chef Tony Demes’ new French-modern restaurant Noisette is good for both dinner and a show if you do it right. Couvron, his much-missed previous restaurant—which Demes moved from Portland to Ne ... More

Feb 1, 2012 12:01 am by MATTHEW KORFHAGE

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EC Kitchen

Food Reviews & Stories The sign outside this newly refurbished house on Southeast 82nd Avenue, about a mile north of the dividing line between civilization and Clackamas County, promises “Chinese Traditional Delight ... More

Feb 1, 2012 12:01 am by BEN WATERHOUSE

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Drank: Chili Beer (Calapooia Brewing Co.)

Drank Call me boring, but I like my beverages to come without prefixes, especially when it comes to beer. Bring on the ale, leave out the fruit, please. But I was pleasantly surprised by how well the ... More

Feb 1, 2012 12:01 am by BEN WATERHOUSE

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TARDIS Room: Fish and Spaceships

Bar Reviews For those of you who don’t have BBC America, Doctor Who is a long-running TV show about a time-traveling alien. So if you fancy some sci-fi geekery and a chance to get off with some authentic fi ... More

Feb 1, 2012 12:01 am by AARON SPENCER

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Teff Love

Crowning Portland’s best Ethiopian restaurant.

Food Reviews & Stories People aren’t shy about recommending a favorite Ethiopian restaurant. Their opinion is usually worthless, however, because it’s one of the two they’ve visited. It’s true that the menu, pri ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by MARTIN CIZMAR

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Easy-Baked

Cutting-edge cooking with cannabis.

Food Reviews & Stories THC can be absorbed into the blood in many ways, and people figured out how to eat it pretty early on. Consequently, there are heaps of literature out there on how to ingest dope, and most of th ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by JEFF MCCARTHY

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Snacktime Smackdown

How does yuppie junk food chalk up against the regular old crap?

Food Reviews & Stories You make curious food purchases when you’re high. In fact, being baked exposes an essential truth about the kind of foods that litter the shelves at convenience stores: They are designed exclusi ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by RUSTY FEATHERCAP

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Interurban: From the Ashes

Bar Reviews A less brazen publican might have taken an opening-weekend fire as a sign to throw in the towel, but the men behind Interurban (4057 N Mississippi Ave., interurbanpdx.com) are no shrinking violets. ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by BEN WATERHOUSE

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Make Me Over

Pho PDX gets a chic, boozy overhaul at Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen.

Food Reviews & Stories At Luc Lac you don’t just eat the pho—you drink it. And it’s damn good. Adam Ho, co-owner and bar manager at the newish downtown restaurant, mixes bourbon, cranberry juice and a little pea ... More

Jan 18, 2012 12:01 am by KELLY CLARKE

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Drank: Blue Dog Mead

Drank Although mead is usually the stuff of Ren faires and amateur beekeepers, if you can ferment something in Oregon, someone will. Thus: Eugene’s Blue Dog Mead. Floral and slightly rubbery on the ... More

Jan 25, 2012 12:01 am by RUTH BROWN

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Burning Down The Mouth

Road-testing five Portland hot sauces.

Food Reviews & Stories Yeah, yeah, you love Secret Aardvark. We know. But there’s a whole grocery shelf of locally made hot sauces out there just waiting to burn your face off. We put five to a blind taste test using ... More

Jan 18, 2012 12:01 am by RUTH BROWN

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Drank: Cider Wit (Flat Tail Brewing)

Drank At first glance, it’s a run-of-the-mill wit. Belgian-style witbiers, or wheat beers, are commonly spiced with coriander and orange peel. But this one is more complex. The aroma is funky, both in ... More

Jan 18, 2012 12:01 am by BRIAN YAEGER

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Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant: Lush Life

Bar Reviews Mark Simon’s head is shaped like a fishbowl. But then, I’m looking at the Portland pianist, between bites of my creamy Pacific Coast Seafood Pasta ($16.50), through the distorting lens of an oversized and underfunded tip jar... ... More

Jan 18, 2012 12:01 am by CASEY JARMAN

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