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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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