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OK, you know we love Five Guys Burgers and Fries, right? Did you know that all across the country Five Guys uses some of the quotes from our review on their in-store marketing displays? Mind you, we’re not in all of their restaurants, but we are in a lot of them. Like here. Here (in [...]

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 [...]

Veggie Grill Cedar Hills Crossing 3435 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Beaverton, OR 97005 I was recently invited to attend a pre-opening lunch at the new vegan Ve

Scottish Beer Week at the Barrel House-we’ll be serving up a variety of Scottish beers all week long! Join us for Mc Shagger Strong Scotch, a seasonal offering from the brewers with hints of chocolate and smoked peat, dark malts and hints of molasses and chocolate on the palate which lead to a creamy finish

Trader Vic’s 1203 NW Glisan Street Portland, OR 97209 Map It! Ph: 503-467-2277 HH Hours: 3 to 6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to close M-F; all day on Sundays Website | Facebook | Twitter Lunch money: $$$-$$$$ Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars I wanted to love the happy hour at Trader Vic’s, I really, [...]

Just before the holidays I was out at Ayers Creek Farm helping Carol and Anthony g

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

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

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Behind The Scenes Tours – $75 Friday afternoons 1:00 – 5:00 pm (January 6, 13, 20, 27) 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 there, we then visit Casca

Sushi Train 19239 SW Martinazzi Avenue Tualatin, OR 97062 Map It! Ph: 503-885-2545 Facebook Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: 5 out of 5 stars [Note: I originally reviewed Sushi Train more than three years ago (where does the time go?), so I felt I should update everyone on one of my fave “secret” sushi spots.] I [...]

Boke Bowl 1028 SE Water Avenue Portland, OR 97214 Map It! Website | Twitter | Facebook | Menu Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Portland has a lot of noodle options. Like, A LOT of noodle options. So when the buzz-a-thon about Boke Bowl opening their first permanent location began to spread [...]

We’ve been using LivingSocial’s Instant Deals for awhile. They’re SO easy to use and the deals are fantastic. If you plan to eat lunch tomorrow (and you probably are), I recommend checking this out. But get up early, I’m sure many of the most popular spots are going to sell out fast!!! Some of the [.

I recently had the very good fortune of being invited to a festive Pear Lunch hosted by Pear Bureau Northwest at Castagna

Pink Rose 1300 NW Lovejoy Street Portland, OR 97209 Map It! Ph: 503-482-2165 Website | Twitter | Facebook |Menu Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: 4 out of 5 stars What’s the best part of the weekend? Brunch, of course! But finding an affordable, upscale brunch in Portland (where the wait list time is less than an

It seems like I hardly ever sit around on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon anymore and watch cooking shows. I used to do that all the time. Now, meh. I should really try to get back in the habit of doing that

This year's fall colors have been particularly magn

Ben Edmunds to lead Brewvana’s next Connoisseur Tour 11/13/11 Brewvana Brewery Tours 12-5pm. sold out Breakside Brewery’s brewer, Ben Edmunds will be leading Brewvana’s next Connoisseur Tour. Ben has studied at the Seibel Institute, spent time in Belgium and now is the head Brewer at B

This was one of the first food images that I came across on pinterest.com (follow me here!) that I pinned and yes, it’s now the first recipe IR

The eating in Jerez and Sanlucar was pretty great. It's all about tapas, small dishes that you order too many of and share with friends. Generally, you go to lunch at about 3:30 and eat a lot of tapas. You finish at something like 5:30. You take break, and then go to dinner at something like 9.Olives are amazin

I found another place I know I can go anytime and there won't be a line. But that is no indication of the

Hamburger Mary’s 19 NW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209 Map It! Ph: 503-688-1200 Website | Twitter | Facebook | Menu Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: 4 out of 5 stars   My recent visit to Portland’s “new” Hamburger Mary’s was on a whim. I was meeting up with a friend and we hadn’t devised a lunch

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Ben Edmunds to lead Brewvana’s next Connoisseur Tour 11/13/11 Brewvana Brewery Tours 12-5pm. $80 Breakside Brewery’s brewer, Ben Edmunds will be leading Brewvana’s next Connoisseur Tour.

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

When I was a kid my summer activity of choice was spending hours submerged

Agave Azul 155 SE Vista Avenue Gresham, OR 97080 Map It! 503-674-0654 Hours: Sun/Mon 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Tue – Sat 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Lunch money: $$ Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Just off (very busy) Powell Boulevard on a quiet side street in Gresham is a little burnt orange colored [...]

Bobtoberfest Celebration 09/17/11 Heater Allen Brewing 907 NE 10th Ave McMinnville 503-472-4898 12-6pm $15-includes lunch, two tastes and a filled Heater Allen glass that’s yours to keep. Community Plate will be at the Brewery serving Bratwurst made with Bobtoberfest alon

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Apparently a lot of people know about this combination, this antithetical pairing of delicately nuanced Champagne with the greasy heavy fist of fried food. I remember reading Peter's post about this a while back, and thinking, "Hmmm, I'd sooner take a bottle of Champagn

Kornblatt’s Deli 628 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, Oregon 97210 Map It! 503-242-1027 | Fax: 503-242-1027 Hours: M-F: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat & Sun: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lunch money: $$-$$$ Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Oh, the New York City-style deli dilemma…. It’s seems to be a rather important argument here [...]

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While taking a long walk the other day after work, I stopped in at a wine store where I used to shop, but never really go anymore. I very much like the woman who buys the wine there. She has an interesting and slightly frustrating job because the store is a little neighborhood place with no internet sales, they sell bottles

The Rock Wood Fired Pizza & Spirits 22401 NE Glisan Street Wood Village, OR 97060 Map It! 503-328-8498 Hours: 11:30 a.m. to midnight daily Website | Twitter: @TheRock_WFP | Facebook Page | Menu Lunch money: $$ Rating: 4 out of 5 stars You could say there’s already an overabundance of pizza places in th

She's been a long time coming, but it looks like summer's finally decided to

Here it is, another French Fridays with Dorie (just fyi – site is down until Sunday) post. I’ve been looking forward to making this for a