Andrea Damewood

Aaron Lee New Portland life goal: Assemble a group of six or seven friends, and make sure they are the kind who roll deep and hard with food and booze. This is not the time for your friend’s boyfriend who won’t drink rice liquor, and be sure to straight up uninvite your girl who thinks […]

Feast: Serving up Nomad’s filet-o-fish. MJ Skegg Feast Portland’s fifth anniversary blowout has come and gone, and the eating team here at the Mercury is slowly returning from the blur of bites and oodles of wine and spirits we consumed over the course of four days. This year Feast was aging, with a few events—Sandwich […]

Thomas Teal I’VE DONE ENOUGH eating at Pastrami Zombie over the last several weeks to make a final call about how good these smoky, drippy, and huge sandwiches are. So naturally, I just placed a Caviar order to have another one delivered while I write. Pastrami Zombie’s signature Reuben is deceptively simple: a huge stack […]

Jason Desomer WHEN JAVIER CANTERAS envisioned his first restaurant, he pitched a Spanish sandwich shop called Bocadillo. On CNBC. To celebrity restaurateur and human resting bitch face Joe Bastianich. He won $150,000. As Canteras told Eater Portland, after staging in a few top Spanish restaurants and consulting with Bastianich, he pivoted when it came time […]