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When the folks at Travel Lane County

This week’s French Fridays with Dorie was for a very interesting quiche — Apple & Gorgonzola. And, as is my way, I changed it quite a bit. I

Been busy and not able to write as often, but please don't think that means I've been starving and not drinking anything interesting. Oh no, my friends, I've been a very lucky Brooklynguy lately, in large part due to the generosity of friends. Here are some tidbits, things from the past few weeks that are worth mentioning:

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Laurelwood Collaboration Brewer’s Dinner 02/08/12 Laurelwood Public House and Brewery 5115 NE Sandy Blvd Portland 503-282-0622 $50 The dinner will feature collaboration beers brewed by Vasilios Gletsos of Laurelwood Brewing Co., Alex Ganum of Upright Brewing, Van Havig of Gigan

Full Sail February Brewmaster Dinner 02/09/12 Full Sail Tasting Room & Pub 506 Columbia St Hood River, Or 97031 541-386-2247 5pm $30 http://www.fullsailbrewing.com/event/full-sail-february-brewmaster-dinner.cfm February Brewmaster Dinner will feature a four course

Zagat recently released their list of “

Boke Bird Dinner @ Boke Bowl 1028 SE Water Avenue Portland, OR 97214 Map It! Hours: Thursday nights **ONLY** from 5 to 9:30 p.m. No reservations! Walk-in only. Menu | Twitter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Dear Lunch Lady, You do know the name of this website is Stumptown Lunch, right? Why the heck [...]

Oakshire Beermaker Dinner 01/27/11 Madison’s Grill 1109 SE Madison Portland 503-230-2471 $35 7pm 4 courses of Oakshire beer and food pairings. Contact the restaurant to buy tickets and for more information.

This Friday, January 27, from 4:30 to 6:30, winemaker Jim Prosser of J.K. Carriere Wines will be here to share. While most of our tastings feature range and variety, this one will focus on Prosser’s three very different – and we think masterful -- expressions of pin

February Tours 2012 Behind The Scenes Tours – $75 Friday afternoons 1:00 – 5:00 pm (February 3, 10, 17, 24) The tour begins at Buckman Village, a small brewery that shares space with a nano brewery and a distillery, located inside a SE pub that features 49 rotating taps. After sampling beers

Laurelwood Collaboration Brewer’s Dinner Laurelwood Brewing Co. is holding a one of a kind collaboration brewer’s dinner on Wednesday, February 8, 2012. The dinner will feature collaboration beers brewed by Vasilios Gletsos of Laurelwood Brewing Co., Alex Ganum of Upright Brewing, Van Havig of Gigantic Brewing

While growing up, a tuna melt was one of my go-to, out to eat meals. Through the years, I’ve been guilty of mixing up some tuna salad, slathering it on an English muffin and melting copious amounts of chedda

Breakside’s First Brewers Dinner 01/20/12 Aquariva Restaurant 0470 SW Hamilton Ct Portland, OR 97239 503-802-5850 $45 Breakside Brewery folks will be on hand to answer questions. 1ST-Hoppy Amber 5.8% 45 IBU with Scallop Crudo, Pickled Fennel, Avocado, Espelette &

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Hey, it’s the first French Fridays with Dorie of 2012 (for me, anyway)! And this week….M. Jacques Armagnac Chicken. This is a pretty easy a

On new year's eve a good friend took pity on me, alone in the house with my very young and very wonderful daughters, and he decided to come over to hang out and have dinner. We of course opened some special wines on that night, one of which was a bottle I brought back from Jerez in October, Emilio Hidalgo Especial Amontill

Three for today: A Detailed Man, David Swinson's crime novel about a DC detective with a half-frozen face and a few too many people he knows dying brutally.

Seven friends and I pool our money every year to buy about 8 bottles of Burgundy wine, wine that we wouldn't buy individually because of the high cost and the risk of bad bottles. Every year at around this time we get together over dinner and share the wines. This year the theme of our dinner was the great vineyards and pro

I collect all the interesting links I find around the web and Google news, with the best intentions. They get dragged to my desktop, but I get busy, or am not feeling well enough to deal, and it seems like they collect, until a day like this comes along and I run out of space. Fasten your seat-belts and click away. News

By Charley Michaels God, I love and hate eating out in Portland. Would hate to run a restaurant even more. A Yelp review (names withheld): Upon entering the ambience was warm welcoming, and lively, but once we were seated it was evident that the noise level was too loud for comfort.

I was trying to delete some blog spam the other night and I got distracted (I know, so rare!) by looking through my iphoto annals. It got me to thinking, “hey! I should go through all my pictures from 2011 and pick my f

I was given an amazing birthday gift in November, an old bottle of wine by Produttori del Barbaresco, the 1959 Riserva. This is very exciting - how often does one get to drink a bottle that old? In my case, not very often. I've had a few old wines, but with the exception of a few cases, I haven't opened them myself. A more

When Nancy Hunt and Randy Goodman opened Bar A

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, if that is the holiday you celebrate this time of year. If not, happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, Festivus, what have you. Maybe you just like to sit around in December eating a lot

Well, of the last few months anyway. There have been a few truly memorable drinks and eats in the past months that I never found a way to write about here. So I'll compile them in a best-of-the-unposted list from the last part of 2011.

It's been a big week at Gigantic Brewing, where we left last week with the brewery's new floor being poured...then came the big news, that the feds --- the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade & Tax Bureau or the TTB --- had approved Gigantic's brewery application in an amazingly short 34 days --- and they've got their firs

12/30 – latest restaurant updates added. Once again, the definitive guide to New Year’s eve in Portland! 45 Restaurants with special events. At the bottom, five that are open New Year’s Day. Happy New

Grüner 527 SW 12th Avenue Portland, Oregon As much as we are trying to go to new restaurants, I am trying to post about them. We went to Grüner last month (see,

Some recipes and techniques I like to keep to myself. I have to have something to impress you with if you come over for dinner, right? But some are so simple and so great that it becomes my civic duty to share. Here is one, a new one for me - a technique for cooking babyback ribs without a smoker or a grill. Honestly, it's

According to Portland Monthly Mag, Christopher Israel of Grüner is partnering with Kurt Huffman of ChefStable, to take over the space last occupied by the predictably ill-fated Pinot Restaurant. Hearing the news

Beermaker Dinner 12/15/11 Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub 506 Columbia Hood River 541-386-2247 5pm $30-4 courses Brewmaster Jamie Emmerson and Chef Jeff Baldo will pair four courses and four beers. FIRST COURSE-Pumpkin Soup with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds and Nutmeg Cream-S

Breakfast for Dinner Beermaker Dinner 01/12/12 Full Sail Tasting Room and Pub 506 Columbia Hood River 541-386-2247 5pm $30-4 courses Brewmaster Jamie Emmerson and Chef Jeff Baldo will pair four courses and four beers. FIRST COURSE-Soft Boiled & Breaded Egg with Br

I thought it would be fun to do one more of these before the year ends. The other night, after picking up my kids and bringing them home to begin their week with me, I made a simple and quick dinner that we could eat together before bed time. Hamburgers, mashed potatoes, a few vegetables.

Sometimes events conspire to change the most engrained habits. And I hate th

collaboration beers, firefighters beers, hanukah beers, beer cocktails, barrel aged beers, beer dinners, beer tastings, beer festivals and much more...isn't anybody shopping?

collaboration beers, firefighters beers, hanukah beers, beer cocktails, barrel aged beers, beer dinners, beer tastings, beer festivals and much more...isn't anybody shopping?

collaboration beers, firefighters beers, hanukah beers, beer cocktails, barrel aged beers, beer dinners, beer tastings, beer festivals and much more...isn't anybody shopping?

I've been having a hard time with red wine lately. Okay, I never have a problem with mature Burgundy, or mature red wine in general. But when I'm alone and I feel like opening something to drink with dinner, or to just have a glass, I almost always reach for white wine these days. White wine is so much more versatile with f

Our third and final Thanksgiving dinner was at the home of the Molloys, just a week after the real T-Day. Darcy outdid herself with a beautiful pancetta-wrapped roast and other guests contributed all kinds of traditional yummy side dishes. I’ve been making the same side dish to bring to all of these dinners and itR

2011 Seafood and Belgian Ales Brewer’s Dinner Menu 12/21/11 Fort George Brewery and Public House 1483 Duane Street Astoria 503-325-PINT First Course-Mussels and Frites/Paired With: Fort George Quick Wit Second Course-Cream of Watercress Soup with Alaskan Spot Prawns/Paired Wit

THE DINING REPORT – THE WOODSMAN TAVERN PICKLEBACKS, WRECKED PALATES, AND THE MIRACULOUS CROUTON This is 100 for me. No, not my 100th birthday, although often I feel that way. This is my 100th Restaurant Roulette dinner review on this blog, at least according to WordPress. Can you believe I’ve made it through at

If it wasn't for a teensy misunderstanding, I might have been enjoying sauerkraut long b