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THE DINING REPORT – SOUTHPARK Less Disgusting Than The TV Show, and Lasts A Lot Longer Southpark, remember that place? (The restaurant, not the off-color TV show.) Well, I didn’t. I thought of it several summers ago, when I was compiling the original list of places I thought my new dining group should go to, [..

THE DINING REPORT – ALLIUM And the Mysterious Tale of That Little Town That Floated South Does anyone really know where West Linn is? Sure, maybe some of the people who live there, and a few of those folks who live in Lake Oswego, but has anyone else ever been to West Linn? It seemed like no [...]

THE DINING REPORT-SOLUNA GRILL Surprisingly Good, If Excessively Footy As the organizer, Head Honchette of Restaurant Roulette, I would have to say the question I have been asked, above all others, is “how do you hear about/select the restaurants?” As I always tell everyone, it’s not particularly hard, I j

THE DINING REPORT – LOLO Spanish Small Plates, Glenda’s Shrunken Head, and Darkness It seems like the dinners we have at restaurants that have small plates are always some of the best, because everyone orders several items and is usually eager to share. Recently, I had a hankering for some Spanish small plates,

The Dining Report – Gruner Portland Mountain High When I was in my teens, my father and I used to go out to dinner a great deal. Portland was not the gigantic dining mecca it is now, and there were the cheap neighborhood places, the moderately nicer places, and the places that were extra fancy, [...]

THE DINING REPORT – CIAO VITO The Gritty And The Glory In about the first three months of the beginnings of Restaurant Roulette, 3.75 years ago, I took some of my earliest diners to Ciao Vito, one of my top five restaurants at that time. It’s amazing how things have changed in Portland dining during [...]

THE DINING REPORT – CABEZON With Eight You Get Really Ill And Want To Die! Let me just start this latest exodus off by saying that yes, a few hours after our dinner at Cabezon, I got violently, incredibly ill, ill is ways that most people would associate with bad food, or unclean conditions, or something equally [..

THE DINING REPORT – ACADIA Privates Flashing Through The Darkness Yes, the is the Restaurant Roulette Dining Report, not a porno blog, but you’re going to have to wait until later to find out just what this edition’s title means (I’ve got to force people to read this stuff somehow.) Three years ago,

The Dining Report – Castagna The Agony (Paying) and the Ecstasy (Yeast Rolls) As anyone who has been in our group for any amount of time knows, I am usually drawn to the new places more than the established venues. People are always suggesting those old standards to me, or saying we should go back [...]