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Portland
Smoke Follows Beauty
by Guest Writer
[6 Oct 2008 at 7:41pm]
My father would have made a better Old Testament prophet than a barber. He often wandered the mountains of eastern Oregon with a gnarled walking stick, erecting crosses and altars to mark sites to which he would like to return. He had no heart for traditional camping. We eschewed sanctioned camping spots for those discovered by my father during his wanderings. If he were Abraham and I were Isaac, I knew enough Bible to be wary if he gathered wood for anything other than a campfire.
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K&Z to Open Second Location
by Food Dude
[6 Oct 2008 at 3:28pm]
I’ve been holding off on this until they publicly annouced it (rememember the crap I got when I annouced their first location?), but now Willamette Week has gone with the news: Kenny and Zuke’s has a month to sign a lease on a location across the street from St. Honore at NW 24th and Thurman. [...]
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A New Contest
by Food Dude
[2 Oct 2008 at 9:18pm]
Most of you know I've been a fan of Paul Gerald since he first started writing for this stite. Over the past year or so, with pressure from lots of his friends, Paul decided to self-publish his book: Breakfast in Bridgetown: The Definitive Guide to Portland's Favorite Meal. I've never met Paul, but he sent me a preview copy, and I liked it enough to write a clip for the back cover. I also sat down and read the whole thing. As I've said on this site before, his pieces are not really reviews per se, but more portraits of various cafes and restaurants: the atmosphere, the crowd, what the menu is like, prices, and the type of people that go there. This makes it a thoroughly entertaining read.
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Even More Restaurant News
by Food Dude
[30 Sep 2008 at 8:40pm]
Simpatica to open restaurant/butcher shop combo:
From Benjamin Dyer,
“As of tonight at midnight, Jason, Dave and I will be the proud owners of a building on East Burnside. It’s definitely a diamond in the rough, emphasis on the rough, but we’re hoping to turn it into something beautiful. We’re thinking restaurant. And butcher [...]
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New restaurants opening (updated 3x)
by Food Dude
[29 Sep 2008 at 7:15pm]
Updated Three times as new information trickles in
Noticed a sign in the window on NE 28th in the old Taqueria Nueve spot, that Tapalaya, “A New Orleans small plates restaurant” would be opening. I’d first heard they were opening next to the new Ristretto, but either that rumor was wrong, or there are two similar [...]
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More Vita Coffee Rumors
by Food Dude
[29 Sep 2008 at 2:00am]
A few months ago I reported that I’d heard Caffe Vita would be opening at Interstate and Alberta. Instead, it sounds like they may be opening downtown near Stumptown Coffee. As I said when I first reported the story, “This would be interesting, since they have four stores in Seattle, and one in Olympia. Could [...]
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Interview: Chef Ken Gordon
by Catherine Cole
[26 Sep 2008 at 12:42pm]
Perhaps Ken Gordon's t-shirt said it best: "By Reading This You Have Given Me Brief Control of Your Mind." Ken is half of Kenny & Zukes -- one of Portland's most beloved Jewish delis, and he hasn't gotten to the point of moving 800 pounds of pastrami in a weekend by letting his kitchens get out of line.
"I mean really, in the food business, the restaurant business, it's all about control," Ken says during our recent interview.
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Coming this week? and dribbles of food news
by Food Dude
[22 Sep 2008 at 9:48pm]
A complete review of East India Company, a special contest that could win you a copy of Paul Gerald’s new breakfast book, and whatever else pops up on the radar.
A couple of other things. Be nice! I’ve had to delete 4 comments today because they were out of line.
Lots and lots of rumors about restaurants [...]
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Eric Berchard (Alberta Oyster), has landed
by Food Dude
[11 Sep 2008 at 8:53pm]
Just received a picture from Eric that pretty much spells it all out. He’s now at Opal in Seattle. From their website, “ Seattle?s historic [...]
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Two grand beers for the end of summer
by schlockstar
[10 Sep 2008 at 10:05pm]
Reviewing beer is such a subjective matter. Every beer lover I know has their own tastes - I definitely have mine. There are some beers I'll never try or drink again. But that doesn't mean that the beer was necessarily bad - it just wasn't my cup of tea - or pint being the case.
Sure, you'll still get the occasional beer review from me - Lord knows I drink and sample enough of local beer to do so - but I also want to shine the light on lesser know local brewers, cover local beer news, and even step out a bit of the Portland metro area. And, as a history nerd, I'm always curious about the buildings that house our local breweries - Green Dragon's re-use of the wonderful Q-Hut building, Hopworks eco-renovation or the Muddy Rudder's labor of love in Sellwood.
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Food News!
by Food Dude
[10 Sep 2008 at 8:29pm]
Los Baez, the "Mexican" restaurant on Burnside has closed. For a huge space like that, they needed huge crowds. Unfortunately, the food was so bad, people didn't tend to go twice.
The rumor mill is full of rumblings about a giant Wongs King Seafood coming to downtown's China Town area as part of the Uwajimaya plan. I liked WKS when they opened out in SE, but think they have been coasting ever so slowly downhill ever since. Still, it is leagues above any restaurant I have been to in that part of downtown.
New Seasons is planing to build a new store on Fremont and Williams. Still nothing near the downtown core, damn it!
A commenter in our forums says that Five Guys Burger and Fries is coming to the Cedar Hills area. I've never been, but a buzz sure is building about it. Now if we could just get an In-n' Out
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Hurley?s Coupage in Seattle RIP
by Food Dude
[8 Sep 2008 at 2:38am]
Remember Hurley’s on NW 20th? Tom Hurley closed his operation back in December 2007, saying we weren’t good enough to appreciate his food. He had started a restaurant in Seattle called Coupage, which he said was much more successful, as it was in “a bigger city with more sophistication.”
He told the Oregonian, “Portland wasn’t ready [...]
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Pok Pok?s Andy Ricker to Open Chinatown Eatery
by Food Dude
[7 Sep 2008 at 8:45pm]
From OregonLive,
Pok Pok owner Andy Ricker is teaming with John C. Jay, Weiden+Kennedy’s branding guru, and his fashion-designer wife Janet Jay to open Ping, a restaurant in Chinatown slated for winter 2008-2009.
…Ping will be a casual hub for Asian snacking and drinking in the (now vacant) bottom floor of the Hung Far Low Building at [...]
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Tastebud Pizza
by KM
[5 Sep 2008 at 12:51am]
There was a time when pizza lovers had a devil of a time in Portland. But today there are Portland dough masters who treat the humble pizza with as much respect as does an old country pizzaiolo.
Dough that rises for 24+ hours, imported wood burning ovens, sky high temperatures, just the right amount of char; today the finer points of pizza making are all taken into account with delicious effect.
Ken's Artisan Pizza, Apizza Scholls, Nostrana and others have raised expectations here for what constitutes good pizza. Some offer a refined pizza
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Inversion IPA: Summer every day beer
by schlockstar
[2 Sep 2008 at 8:14pm]
What's that one beer you seem to drink all summer long? The old standby that you can turn to day in and day out, every week, old faithful, never disappointing the taste buds?
Everyone has their favorite. Mine? Deschutes' Inversion IPA. I remember reading about it a couple years back and anxiously awaiting its debut two years ago.
A few autumns ago I visited the brewery in Bend and sampled a fantastic seasonal - hoppy, piney, kicky aftertaste. And oh so refreshing. And I completely forgot to get the name of the beer.
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Interview - Erica Landon, Sommellier Ten 01
by Elizabeth Lopeman
[28 Aug 2008 at 3:10pm]
Not only is Erica Landon, Ten 01's award winning sommelier, extremely well educated about the wines she recommends, but she continues to make the restaurant's wine program one of the best in the state. She's also quite nice. In a male dominated field with a reputation for snobbery, Landon gracefully keeps her own council. "When I went to take my quarter master sommelier exam I was one of two women in the room out of forty people," she says. Landon says she was intimidated "sometimes," but goes on to explain, "I have an idea about how I feel about wine and I want to make it as accessible and as friendly...
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