finder 2016

Midbudget Dining in Portland

Not every meal has to be an $80 10-course tasting menu of salt-cured pigeon feathers and honeyed wasps. Nor does it have to be a $6, 2-pound burrito made infamous because an enterprising chef replaced the tortilla with chicharrones. Here are some of Portland’s nicest bistro-style sit-down places, perfect for a midweek date where you … Continue reading Midbudget Dining in Portland

Portland's Top Chicken Spots

For generations, this unreconstructed dive has churned out the city's finest fried birds by relying on the freshness of poultry delivered thrice weekly and hand-breaded daily, and a loyal clientele willing to wait an hour or two amid thickened clouds of secondhand cholesterol.

Goose Hollow

Built on the site of a filled-in creek, Goose Hollow remains green and relatively serene, except when the Timbers play.

Downtown

It’s a place where tourists and professionals pour into a bougie food court for $8 ice-cream sundaes, a new development that keeps locks on its restroom doors to avoid the horror of the area’s sizable transient population daring to wash their faces.

Industrial Eastside

For locals still convinced that Portland lost its soul, the inner eastside is where Portland jumped the charcuterie. But imagining a complete transformation rather underestimates how deep the area’s weirdness lays.

Division Street

Over the years, Division Street has developed and changed with the rest of the city, but it still maintains a beloved sense of Northwest quirk and a dedication to local tradition while having become the epicenter of Portland’s restaurant culture

Brooklyn/ Lower Powell Boulevard

Brooklyn is poised to be the new destination for close-in Southeast Portland homeowners and folks looking for a little less hustle in a neighborhood that still feels very much like a different city altogether.

Sellwood

Sellwood-Moreland is a proud Southeast enclave, keeper of the city’s history through landmarks and the antiques trade, and cloistered away by greenspace and the river on the city’s southern edge.

Reed College, Woodstock and Mount Scott-Arleta

Although Woodstock is the only commercial district lying anywhere near Reed College, there’s no part of the city less redolent of college towns, though a whiff of professorial housing does linger.

Foster-Powell

With an influx of younger home buyers intermingling with the blue-collar lifers and long-standing Russian and East Asian communities, Foster-Powell is booming.

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