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Caitlin Pangares
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Café No Saint Does Brunch Better

Swap your benedict for Italian pastries and cappuccinos, or a spritz-filled long lunch
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Italians have the right idea. Slow mornings with cappuccinos “to stay,” a crisp Moretti at an outdoor table after work. Now, you can have an Italian café experience right on Killingsworth. No Saint, the beloved Northeast wood-fire, pizza-focused Italian restaurant, began offering breakfast and lunch at the start of the year, calling it Café No […]

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Merrow Pop-Up Serves Fresh Fish, “Sexy” Vegetables, and Italian Chili Crisp

Held monthly at Heavenly Creatures, look for tuna carpaccio, rau ram Caesar, and “perfect” fish and chips.
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Something about the waif-thin tuna carpaccio at Merrow reminded me of New York.  As a person who recently “boomeranged” back here from Brooklyn, I still feel in tune with that frequency. Merrow, the monthly seafood popup at Heavenly Creatures, seemed like Portland’s answer to Cervo’s, a Lower East Side Spanish seafood restaurant—and favorite of mine.  […]

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Yanni’s Greek Donuts Serves Up Tradition, Best Eaten Hot

This Southeast Portland food cart offers loukoumades year-round, not just at the Greek festival.
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There’s good news for Portlanders who wait all year to snack on puffy, honey-drenched loukoumades served in a paper boat in a church parking lot. Ever since Yanni’s opened, the bite-sized Greek donuts are available at any time of the year.  Tucked in a corner of the Lucky Labrador Brewing parking lot sits a cyan […]

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