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I dined for the first time at Pok Pok on Monday with Rusty and our old friend Caleb. Arriving at 7 pm, I was told that there would be a 30 minute wait and I was directed to the Whiskey Soda Lounge across the street to wait (which is owed by the same person that owns Pok Pok). 30 minutes turned into a little over an hour.

Fringe Fest 07/24/10 Belmont Station 4500 SE Stark Portland 503-232-8538 Noon-6pm A day of tastings and special drafts. Meet a bunch of great Oregon craft Brewers not at the big Oregon Brewers Festival. NOON-2PM * HEATER ALLEN TASTING Brewer/founder Rick Allen will

Two Oregon craft-brewing veterans, Art Larrance and Alan Sprints, are finishing new pubs in close-in Southeast.

Wong’s King, a Cantonese/Dim Sum stalwart in southeast Portland, recently opened a Beaverton outpost. I stopped by for a bowl of wonton soup and some soup dumplings.

Craig Nicholls, owner/brewer of Roots Organic Brewing has closed the doors of his much-loved Southeast Portland brewpub.

Microroasters seem to be sprouting up everywhere these days, especially in the Pacific Northwest, where the newest kid on the block is Water Avenue Coffee in Portland’s Southeast Industrial district....

<A Vietnamese sandwich at Foster & Dobbs? Mais oui! For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, the Banh Mi relfects Viet Nam’s colonization by the French—baguette, mayonnaise, and charcuterie—but wit

The Nell Burger, a Bistro Burger Behemoth The burger started as fair food. It was actually co

soaking it all in at Heart Coffee RoastersUp just after 6:00 am this morning. The dogs were no

The Southeast Portland bottle shop has a busy schedule of beer events for the month.

This press release got lost in my spam folder, but if you haven’t read these elsewhere, it’s interesting news. Eco-Modern Seafood Restaurant Opens in Former Sel Gris Space FIN, an eco-modern seafood restaurant, is slated to open July 28, 2010 under the direction of executive c

Thanh Thao Market, located on a strip of Northeast Sandy in the Rose City district, may not be Portland’s largest Vietnamese market or itR

Pickled Green Strawberries and Bison Carpaccio Trends can go one of two ways: either they get absorbed int

Genoa Restaurant 2832 Southeast Belmont St Portland, OR 97214-4024 Okay, enough about California, let’s talk about a Portland restau

Early Strawberries from Denison Farms April showers seem to have brought May showers, no flowers. B

A Trio of Salads from Eastmoreland Market In the wake of

Jesse McCann's new bicycle/motorbike friendly pub opens today at Southeast 12th Ave and Division Street, kitty corner to The Beermongers.

Portland is a mecca for microbrews, artisan espresso and local coffee roasters, chocolatiers, pizza, breads, pastries etc. Oregon also has an established wine industry and an agrarian economy for ingredients just meant to be distilled – local fresh fruits for brandies, grains for whiskey and vodkas, and nuts and he

All photos by Ali [Note: I've been a reader of the Little Red Bike Cafe blog for quite some time. This post caught my eye, and they graciously

Alan Sprints, one of Oregon's most respected brewers moves his Hair of the Dog Brewing from a production-only brewery in the Brooklyn area to a new facility in the heart of close-in Southeast. The new brewery has twice the room and will feature a Wednesdays-Sundays tasting room for 70 people with a waterfront view an

Long before we ever started a breakfast cafe, Evan and I were addicted to the breakfast experience.

Portland's Cascade Brewing perfects the art of barrel-agied and sour beers in a new barrelhouse devoted to oak-aged beers mand won gold and silver in the sour beer category at the last Great American Beer Festival..

Stopped by Biwa recently for a bowl of soup. One bonus of dining at Biwa, in addition to a hot towel that warms the soul, is the amuse you get of marinated sea vegetable. Just a couple bites to start the meal off right.

Part 2. N through Z. Part 1 is here. New Cascadia Traditional

Jade Patisserie and Teahouse is a charming, family-run establishment located on that equally charming strip of 13th Avenue in Sellwood that boasts antique shops and other things white people like.

As a fourth generation Oregonian, I can attest to the fact that people in Oregon

Part one A through M. Part two is here Portland is well-known for great beers, coffee, and quality European style artisan breads, yet we also boast a very large choice of sweet shops, pa

This is it! The biggest list of Valentine’s Day events you will find anywhere West o

Tiger, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or ey

Kenny’s is a new-ish Hong Kong-style noodle soup house on Portland’s southeast side, on the north side of Powell (just across the street from Best Baguette). They’ve had a grand opening sign in front of thei

So my second "daughter," actually my own daughter's best friend, was walking home last night when she noticed a man across the street, wanking off against a car."What the fuck are you doing?" she shouted at the guy, who proceeded to jog across to her, pulling his pud, asking, "You want

This is it, my yearly roundup of New Year’s eve events! Keep in mind, though I do my best to keep everything up to date, things do change, so call the restaurant to double-check. I’ve already had quite a few updates in the line of downward prices over the past week. 50 plates We are rolling out

Phnom Penh Noodle Soup

Bar Avignon is a good new wine bar in Southeast with several excellent beers available.

There was a time when Ripe Family Supper (especially before it be

A few favorite places where I've been getting my PDX food and drink on....*** *** *** *** ***CASTAGNA

Tired of looking at that piece of fried chicken from the previous post that has been staring at you for

I like game hens. They are like chickens, except in diminutively exact scale. You can eat an entire game hen at one sitting and not feel like a glutton. So I eat two. One thing that worries: are “game hens” simply baby chickens prematurely slaughtered on a factory farm? Is this a moral quandary for whi

as kind of a teaser to the preview dinner I'm going tonight, I just got the following press release from Castagna's PR flaks detailing a few of the many changes at the restaurant (as owner Monique Siu told me "we are basically opening a brand new restaurant"), a bio of new chef Matt Lightner (who at just 28 has got to be un

Cascade brewing closes on property for its new Southeast barrelhouse today, and just won gold AND silver in the wood-aged tart beers category at the Great American Beer Festival

Who knew when my brother opened his wine shop in S

I’ve heard many good things about Little T American Baker on Southeast Division, and finally stopped by recently–albeit only to score a large baguette for that night’s dinner with the in-laws.

My lunch with so very nice, funny and talented clothing designer Adam Arnold

After a taking a few months off from Food & Ink, I have decided to return.  The format will be changing a bit and I will be taking Food & Ink on the road.  I will be moving from Portland back to my home town of Richmond, Virginia and changing Portland Food & Ink to plain and simple Food & Ink.  I had star

I've lived in New York essentially for my whole life (there were four years of college in the mid-west and a year in Southeast Asia and India). I've never seen a June like the one we just had, with rain almost every day, skies overcast. We had 18 days straight of rain at one stretch.But you know what - it's stil

Can you hear it? That slight rumble in the distance, like a thunderstorm on the other si

I recently dropped by the Hob Knob Grille on SE Morrison, a new-ish eatery that occupies the former digs of the mediocre Southeast outpost of Salvador Molly’s…

Last summer, B. and I reviewed the tempeh reuben at Papa G's, then a relatively new all vegan, all organic restaurant in Southeast. At 5.99, the modest sandwich didn't seem like a great deal, but I appreciate Papa G's dedication to fresh, or

American Craft Beer Week Events(ACBW) 05/11/2009-05/17/2009 In Alphabetical Order by City Website