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After a Business-Ending Fire, a New Big’s Chicken Is Coming Back This Summer

The smoked-chicken spot, which started as a summertime pop-up in the parking lot of Dyer’s steak house Laurelhurst Market, burned down at its Northeast Glisan brick-and-mortar location after being struck by an errant firework.

Do Second Locations of Portland Restaurants Stack Up to the Originals? We Tried Them to See

It seems like every successful fast-casual pop-in in this city is destined to have siblings.

Vancouver Is the New Frontier for Two Ambitious Portland Restaurateurs

Rally Pizza is a cavernous, Nostrana-scale dining room and Vancouver’s finest restaurant. The pies are good—top 10 in the region—and the cocktails, protein dishes and desserts are top-notch.

Where There's Smoke There's Frier: Portland's Best Southern Food

Portland is no stranger to Southern comfort. Over the last decade or so, it’s hard to argue the local cuisine has been influenced by anything more than the fancy comfort food trend. This is a town that loves fried chicken and brisket. Here are the fried chicken and brisket spots we love best.

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

Ping (Christine Dong)

Protester Arrested for Smashing Windows in Portland Allegedly Carried Four Molotov Cocktails in His Backpack

Portland police arrest a protester on Jan. 20, 2021. (Chris Nesseth)

A Key Indicator of Real Estate Investors’ Interest in Portland Shows a Precipitous Decline

IN THE BASEMENT: Events of the past year left Portland’s reputation in tatters. (Henry Cromett)

Bureau Assignment Memos Show Mayor Ted Wheeler Is Focused on Paranoid Park and Food Carts

Downtown Portland food carts. (Alex Wittwer)

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Oregon’s Most Prominent QAnon Proponent and a Timber Unity Spokeswoman Attended the Insurrection at U.S. Capitol 114

Gov. Kate Brown Delays Vaccination of Oregonians Ages 65 and Older 108

U.S. Rep Kurt Schrader Votes Against $2,000 Federal Stimulus Check 102

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