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Chef Lex Grant Is Carmelo Anthony’s Personal Chef and Was a Favorite in the NBA Bubble—and Starting Next Month, She’ll Be Cooking for You, Too

A New Jersey native with an extensive resumé, she linked up with Anthony five years ago, when he played for the New York Knicks, and followed him as struggled to find a home late in his career, bouncing from Oklahoma City to Houston and then, finally, Portland—and from there into the bubble, where she provided home-cooked meals with ingredients imported from Brooklyn and Jamaica, until the Blazers were eliminated in the first round.

With Its Dining Series on Hold, Black Feast Has Found New Ways to Continue Serving Portland’s Black Community

Since June, Black Feast has pivoted its business model from a multicourse meal to what it calls “Love Letters to Black Folks”—free, intimate care packages featuring donated items, available weekly for Black Portlanders on a reservation basis.

Late Shake Makes Milkshakes With Craftsmanlike Precision—and a Sprinkle of Cereal

For their milkshake-based pop-up Late Shake, London and Doughty put a lot of time and thought into technique, ingredients, temperature and milk-to-ice cream ratio, resulting in a product that is solid enough for funky toppings but also thin enough for slurpability.

Street Disco’s Cheeseburger Pie Filters Detroit Style Pizza Through Nostalgia for Little Caesar’s—and Tops It With Pickles and American Cheese

Early versions of the pizza concept were developed by the chef at the height of the initial coronavirus lockdown, used as a ploy to trade with winemaker friends in exchange for their bottles.

Holiday Pop-Up Bar the North(West) Pole Celebrates the Season with Shot-Skis and Explosions of Fake Snow. But Do We Really Need This?

A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it holiday pop-up on the second floor of Southern restaurant the Waiting Room, serving highbrow cocktails in the world’s lowest-brow ski lodge.

A Pokémon-Themed Pop-Up Bar Is Coming to Portland

Coming next year, you’ll have a chance to turn your cap backward, Ash Ketchum-style, and display your skills against other obsessives when a yet-to-be-announced Portland bar gets turned into a Poké-extravaganza.

Five Pop-Ups to Eat at This Summer

Randomly occurring Hot Plates to keep an eye out for.

The Pop-Up from Acclaimed Danish Brewery Mikkeller Is the Talk of Portland Beer. But the Brews Don’t Live up to the Hype.

We all know Portland has one of the best beer scenes in the country, if not the world. Even for a renowned global brand, if you’re going to come here, you need to bring your A game. And what we’re getting from Mikkeller is a C-plus.

The Holiday Pop-Up at Kimpton Hotel Vintage Is the Pricey Version of an Ugly Christmas Sweater

At His Gado Gado Pop-Up, a Han Oak Alum Serves Playful Pan-Asian Creations

After a quick jaunt through the menu, it’s easy to imagine Thomas Pisha-Duffly being left alone as a hungry teenager in his Chinese-Indonesian household, upgrading cheap foodstuffs with luxe ingredients relatively unknown to most American families.

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