September 1st, 2010 at 03:03 pm
Picture courtesy FoodCartsPortland.com
I’ve been waiting for push-back against food carts, and it sounds like a groundswell is building. From th
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August 28th, 2010 at 04:42 pm
Chef Tomas Curi, previously Chef de Cuisine at Inoteca Gramercy in NYC, is now hard at work, putting his own stamp on the menu at Lolo, Portland’s Spanish tapas restaurant and bar.
Curi, who started at the restaurant in June, is focusing on finger foods designed to compl
August 27th, 2010 at 06:40 pm
This article on Salon.com interviews an “Italian coffee master”. According to Salon, Giorgio Milos, the master barista at the high-end Trieste, Italy-based Illy coffee, American coffee is, for lack of a better word, crap.
He launches into a screed about US coffee, before going on a tour of NYC’s
August 27th, 2010 at 06:18 pm
From Slashfood, an article on Sinju Restaurant in the Pearl District. A restaurant regular Guido Rahr who happens to be president of the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, noticed Sinju had recently began offering the very rare and en
August 27th, 2010 at 05:31 pm
An article in this weeks Willamette Week spotlights a disturbing practice by a few Portland restaurants, which I have never thought about before: the use of shark fins in cooking.
If you’ve never seen sharks being harvested for their fins, it is truly horrible. The shark is brought aboard the boat, the fins
August 26th, 2010 at 12:20 am
A few years ago, we had a food writing contest. It was so successful, I’ve lined up some great prizes, and we’ll do it again. First prize is an evening class for two people at Robert Reynold’s Chefs Studio. Located in SE Portland, Robert offers Frenc
August 24th, 2010 at 08:00 pm
This is just so darn funny. Those of you who have watched Iron Chef will recognize “The Chairman”. String his dramatic reveals together, and you get quite the production:
Via WineGuyWorld, via
August 20th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
One of my favorite secret places in Portland is closing up shop. Sahagú
August 19th, 2010 at 06:37 pm
Note: This is a new review as of August 2010. The summary has also been updated with new prices for each restaurant in the Steakhouse Round. You’ll find it here.
Not long aft
August 18th, 2010 at 07:38 pm
Laurelhurst Market. Photo by Ron Diggity. Click for his photo stream
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