The Top Five Places to Eat Healthy in Portland This Week After Gorging Yourself at Thanksgiving

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Vertical Diner Looks Straight Out of the ’60s, With One Twist: It’s Entirely Vegan

For a diner to be considered truly great, it needs three things. It should have a palpable sense of history. It should ooze atmosphere. And, ideally, it should be a little weird in places. That is precisely what you get at Vertical Diner. A new, 100 percent vegan take on the classic American diner, housed inside a restored 5,500-square-foot space in Hillsdale originally built in 1969, it still feels like the Mad Men era when you walk in, save for maybe the lack of ashtrays—and, of course, the entirely meatless menu.

A Portland Vegan Ice Cream Company Is Forced to Rebrand After a Trademark Battle With Gerber Baby Foods

Portland’s vegan ice cream restaurant had to rebrand after a trademark tussle with baby food maker Gerber.

Here Are Six of the Best Vegan Plates in Portland

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We Went Hunting for Portland’s Best Vegan Burger. Here’s Our Top Five.

In 2018, the faux-meat industry began producing a patty that put to shame the pasty black bean and dry, grainy vegan patties of the past. It had been nearly a decade since I made my BurgerQuest for Willamette Week, sampling over 70 of Portland’s best cow burgers. So earlier this year, Rishi and I set out on a new journey: to find the best vegan burgers in the city.

With Fermenter, Chef Aaron Adams Changes the Game for Vegan Food in Portland—Again

The food at Fermenter is uniformly excellent. Not just “good for vegan food,” but good no matter what you choose to eat for the rest of your day. But it’s that tempeh that deserves extra ink.

Hood River Company Tofurky Sues Arkansas to Keep “Burger” on Vegan Packaging

Tofurky says the laws are “improperly censoring truthful speech and creating consumer confusion in order to shore up the state’s meat and rice industries.”