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Food Reviews & Stories Come express your inner lumberjack. Come mingle fireside in the airy semidarkness. With ’60s- and indie-soul suffusing the barroom, Rontoms offers a downtempo retro vibe accentuated by twinkly candlelight reflections dancing across lustrous surfaces. If, after a pilsner or Miller High Life, yo   More

Food Reviews & Stories If it takes you a while to get past the pretension of a place marked with an ambiguous logo—the bar’s only signage is a silhouette of, presumably, owner Ron Toms wearing a propeller-clad backpack—instead of a proper name, you’re not alone. Kinda smacks of “If you’   More

Food Reviews & Stories Bartender’s choice: Indio Marionberry Vodka Soda ($5.50).This new accomplice in the ongoing gentrification of lower East Burnside has a lot going for it: lots of seating, a 20-foot ceiling held up by the kind of beams you just don’t see anymore, good music, hot bar boys, and the best gin   More

Food Reviews & Stories Although it’s located right on the highly visible corner of Southeast 6th Avenue and East Burnside Street, I tend to drive past Rontoms without noticing it. I’m going to do the logical thing and blame this on the nondescript, warehouse-style building’s total lack of signage. The ba   More