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A Brief Taxonomy of Portland’s To-Go Cocktail Containers

When Oregon finally approved sales of takeout cocktails last December, it threw a lifeline to desperate bars and restaurants who’d spent the pandemic clamoring to sell mixed alcoholic beverages to go. But the swift, sudden rule change left many of them with another quandary: What do you put them in?

Where to Get Food in Portland This Week

Hot Plates, coming through!

Pok Pok Is Gone, but Andy Ricker’s Other Restaurant Is Getting a Sudden Second Life

Grilled stuff on sticks was a particular pleasure at Ping: bacon-wrapped quail eggs with spicy mayo, simply salted chicken hearts, little pork meatballs, baby octopi dressed in a tongue-searing chile-lime sauce.

ChefStable Is Reviving John Gorham’s “Tasty” Restaurant Brand in Lake Oswego

Two former Toro Bravo employees have partnered with Kurt Huffman’s omnipresent ChefStable group to resurrect the Tasty brand in Lake Oswego.

A New Project from Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker Opens in Northwest Portland This Month

Ping Yang Pow will be Ricker’s first non-Pok Pok project since his Division Street noodle house, Sen Yai, closed in 2016.

Portland Restaurateur Kurt Huffman Is Fighting Eviction from Chinatown’s Historic Hung Far Low Building

The building’s rehab was a collaboration between Huffman and then-owner JoAnne Hong, who died in late 2016. Now Huffman is suing Hong’s heirs and estate, saying they engaged in an elaborate scheme to oust Huffman and his business interests from the property by denying renovations and sneaking into the business after hours.

Bar Review: Fortune Bar

Fortune is now one thing and one thing only: a white-walled Old Town canvas for DJs.

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