The Best Restaurants in Northwest Portland’s Blossoming Slabtown Neighborhood and on the Twenties

More than any other Bamboo location, this one’s the heart of its ‘hood: a neutral-toned palace of refined protein that splits its menu between sustainably caught sushi and extravagant meat plates like an XO-spiced flank steak.

French Bouchon St. Jack Will Make You An Amazing Burger, Cheap Oysters or Chicken-Liver Mousse

There’s no way of doing St. Jack wrong, and even a simple-seeming, delicious steak-frites is made with luscious béarnaise and a red-wine demi-glace reduced for three days into flavorful richness

Portland Suddenly Has a Whole Hell of a lot of $1 Happy-Hour Oyster Deals—Here's Where To Get Them

Portland’s Best $6-and-Under Happy Hour Burgers (Plus One Fried Chicken Sandwich)

(And one chicken sandwich!)

Portland's Food Scene Is Getting Cutthroat—We Talked to Two People Who Didn't Make It

We decided to talk to people who have been there, on the front lines—two restaurateurs who had to close their dream restaurants less than two years after opening. Both were among the top 100 restaurants in town last year, and both will be missed.

Two Major Innovations From Two Local Companies Are Changing the Way We Eat Fish In Portland

It matters here, not just for our pseudo-sustainable, non-practicing pescatarian lifestyles, but because we catch more fish in the Northwest Pacific Ocean than anywhere else: about 21.4 million tons in 2013, or 27 percent of all marine catches.