Portland Restaurants - Reviews, News, Guides from Willamette Week Reviews, News, Guides

RESTAURANTS:

The Top Five Place to Eat This Week

Hot plates

WW Staff
1 hour ago

The Top Five Place to Eat This Week

Where to eat this week.

WW Staff 3:38 PM

Sugarpine and Super Deluxe Offer Retro Drive-In Vibes With Big-Time Pedigrees

The lines were first to form in mid-July at Sugarpine Drive-In. Just days later, Super Deluxe put its fast-food neighbors in Foster-Powell on notice by pumping out top-notch burgers that had people drawing comparisons to In-N-Out and Shake Shack.

Andi Prewitt 3:15 PM

The New York Location of Iconic Portland Thai Franchise Pok Pok Is Closing

After six years, Portland restauranteur Andy Ricker is shuttering the New York location of his Pok Pok franchise, the New York Times first reported today.

Matthew Singer August 13 at 4:52 PM

911 Call Describes Heated Altercation Between White Portland Food Cart Owner and Black Customer

On the morning of July 22, Dustin Knox, co-owner of wood-grilled chicken cart Chicken and Guns, called 911 on a man he claimed threatened him with violence and racial epithets. The customer, Kevin Raysor, later posted on Facebook that he was waiting for the cart to open when Knox accused him of being homeless and loitering.

Matthew Singer August 8 at 4:58 PM

Corzetti Is Worth the Trip, as Long as You Don’t Travel Far

Journeyman chef Johnny Nunn’s new Italian joint in Northeast Portland is called Corzetti, which food nerds will recognize as the name as an obscure variety of pasta shaped like an oversized coin.

Michael C. Zusman August 7

The Five Best Places to Eat This Week

Where to eat this week.

WW Staff August 7

Casa Zoraya Enlivens North Lombard With Killer Peruvian Food

One of Portland’s best dining bargains sits on North Lombard Street, wedged between a mobile phone shop and a leather bar. Casa Zoraya offers delicious dishes with the high-quality ingredients and presentation of a stuffy westside restaurant, for significantly less than what it could charge closer in.

Patricia Sauthoff July 31

The Five Places We’re Most Excited to Eat This Week

Where to eat this week.

WW Staff July 31

The Owner of a String of Portland Bubble Tea Shops Accuses a Rival of Copying Her Design

She responded in the way that has come to characterize our era: She took to Instagram to air her grievance.

Frankie Benitez July 24

A Long-Shuttered Portland Restaurant Is Coming Back in Its Original Building

Known as much for its kitschy decor—which included wooden totem poles and images of pilgrims carved into the walls—as its food, the restaurant was a family-friendly favorite of the Woodstock neighborhood until it closed in 1996.

Matthew Singer July 24

Wild North Is the Fire-Roasted Food Cart of Your Dreams

Almost everything on the menu is prepared in its brick pizza oven and inspired by “the outdoors and rustic cooking methods.”

Mattie Bamman July 24

King Tide Fish & Shell’s Elevated Seafood Has Flaws, But You Can’t Beat the View

Located inside the Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel, King Tide Fish & Shell opened this April with something the others do not have—waterfront views overlooking the Willamette River.

Mattie Bamman July 17

The Top Five Places to Eat This Week

Where to eat this week.

WW Staff July 11

Either/Or Is a Coffee Shop, Brunch Spot and Cocktail Bar All in One

For as many lauded coffee shops, brunch spots and craft cocktail bars there are in Portland, it’s still baffling how little success few restaurateurs have had in offering a reliable combination of the three.

Pete Cottell July 10

Akadi Broadens Portland’s Palate for West African Cuisine

Akadi serves plates from the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Chef-owner Fatou Ouattara, who moved from the Ivory Coast to attend Portland State University at age 23, rules the kitchen, churning out around 40 vegetarian, seafood and meat items on the menu.

Mattie Bamman July 3

FROM OUR SPONSORS

Tips for Eating Your Way Through the City