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Portland Pastrami Staple Kenny & Zuke’s Is Filing For Bankruptcy

In an email sent to investors yesterday, Gordon announced that Body by Pastrami LLC, the brand’s ownership group, will be undergoing Chapter 11 reorganization in order to keep the business open

Who’s Afraid of Tofurky? Oregon’s Soy Food Pioneer Fights For the Right to Label Its Product As Meat.

Jaime Athos doesn’t get angry easily. The 45-year-old CEO’s body language suggests he just emerged from a yoga class.

We Went Hunting for Portland’s Best Vegan Burger. Here’s Our Top Five.

In 2018, the faux-meat industry began producing a patty that put to shame the pasty black bean and dry, grainy vegan patties of the past. It had been nearly a decade since I made my BurgerQuest for Willamette Week, sampling over 70 of Portland’s best cow burgers. So earlier this year, Rishi and I set out on a new journey: to find the best vegan burgers in the city.

Two Queer Portlanders Describe Downtown Attack: Punches and Kicks Followed Slurs

“We were creatures to them that were going against what they thought women look like.”

Feast Is Mostly Sold Out, But Don’t Despair. Here’s How To Replicate Some of Its Big-Ticket Events On Your Own.

By the time we’re this close to Feast—Portland’s most decadent food festival—the utility of a preview piece is rendered moot. Everything worth attending is long sold-out, and the only stuff left is like, a class on how to better photograph whiskey for social media that costs $60 to attend. (That’s real, by the way.) Here’s the thing, though—in this city, you don’t need Feast to feast.

Tacovore’s Tacos Are Far from the Best in Town, but They Don’t Need to Be

In a major food city like Portland, giving your audience exactly what it wants is often an underrated virtue. And if the comments in the air during a recent visit to Tacovore on Northeast Fremont were any indication, this is at least one area where the Eugene-based taco franchise has definitively succeeded.

After Washington State Ban, Oregon Becomes the Last West Coast State Where Consumers Can Buy CBD-Infused Food and Beverages

If Oregon wasn’t already the weed capital of the West Coast, it is now.

With Fermenter, Chef Aaron Adams Changes the Game for Vegan Food in Portland—Again

The food at Fermenter is uniformly excellent. Not just “good for vegan food,” but good no matter what you choose to eat for the rest of your day. But it’s that tempeh that deserves extra ink.

Oregon and Southwest Washington Grocery Store Workers Join Portland Employees in Authorizing Strike Over Low Wages and Gender Pay Gap

Oregon and Southwest Washington grocery store workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 voted on behalf of over 20,000 workers on Saturday to approve a strike at local Fred Meyer, Albertsons, Safeway and QFC stores over low wages and an alleged gender pay gap.

Miss Your Chance to Try KFC’s Cheeto Sandwich? Here Are Five Other Ways to Get Your Flamin’ Hot Fix in Portland

Here are five Cheetos-infused items we found around town, ranked from disappointing to straight flames.

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