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Doug Adams’ Bullard Aaron Lee In the zombie story that won’t go away because it weekly comes for your brain, local #MeNeither spox and Ristretto Roasters-adjacent person, Nancy Rommelmann, is in the news again, but I no longer have the energy to keep continue pushing this clumsy boulder up this very stupid hill. However, If […]

Tapalaya’s Anh Luu PHOTO BY AARON LEE Last Sunday morning, the opening cook at chef Anh Luu’s Tapalaya, the brunchy dinner New Orleans-Vietnamese restaurant on NE 28th, noticed that something wasn’t right. That person’s intuition was correct, as Tapalaya had been burgled sometime between its Saturday night closure and its Sunday morning opening. Luu says […]

Courtesy of Ruby Jewel Hey everybody, your major news organizations did some amazing work this week! Both the Mercury and Willamette Week brought you stories about the too-close-for-comfort relationship between a Portland police officer and the leader of Vancouver’s alt-right Patriot Prayer movement. WW also penned stories on why Portland has not pressed charges against […]

Courtesy Ruby Jewel Ruby Jewel, the local ice cream maker that cut its first teeth serving ice cream sandwiched between homemade cookies at local farmers markets back in 2007, is opening a scoop shop on NW 23rd sometime just before summer. It’s a development that will now put a Ruby Jewel brick-and-mortar in every Portland […]

Rose VL Meg Nanna Food news rolled slowly in this week, but the biggest story was the one that wasn’t: the panic and pandemonium of your local grocery market as you, me, and everyone we know lined up to stock our refrigerators with vegetables and proteins as we waited out a severe winter storm that […]

Mercury Staff The Ristretto Roasters story just won’t go away. On Monday, the Mercury reported that the local coffee chainlet’s owners announced the abrupt closure of their NW Nicolai location at Schoolhouse Electric. The shuttering comes weeks after Nancy Rommelmann, the wife of one of Ristretto’s owners, was called out for her participation in a […]

RIVERNORTHPHOTOGRAPHY / GETTY Remember a couple of weeks back when Nancy Rommelmann, freelance journalist and spouse of Ristretto Roasters owner Din Johnson, counseled MeToo survivors to “move on” via a bunch of YouTube videos? Well, on Monday, she commandeered the coffee company’s Twitter account to settle scores with Heart Coffee (for blocking them) and a […]

Courtesy Saraveza Now that the government is open—for three whole weeks—maybe the fellas behind Shine Distillery & Grill, the first-of-its-kind restaurant-distillery, or restillery (sorry), can finally open up their operation up on N Williams. According to Willamette Week, Shine’s partners had sunk a lot of years and dollars into their idea, only to be delayed […]

Meg Nanna As we recklessly and inevitably swerve into Constitutional Crisis Land, our very smart and not dumb president greeted the NCAA’s Clemson Tigers championship football team this week with a White House feast of pizza and “hamberders” from Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and Burder King. In the meantime, Portland’s food and drink makers and creators were […]

Tapalaya’s Phorritos Erica Perez There’s lots of big news reported this week (tune in for tomorrow’s food & drink weekly wrap-up), but there’s also plenty of small news to report, too. For instance, Please Louise, the Slabtown pizza parlor, will make any of their normally $17 signature pies for you for only $10 this month […]

Aaron Lee Right. Where to start. This week, the O reported that one of its own former freelancers, Nancy Rommelmann, teamed up with a Penthouse columnist to post a series of #MeNeither videos to YouTube in which they argue that #MeToo survivors need to get over it already. People are not happy—and they’re making their […]

Communion Bakehouse’s Amerigoths Katherine Zachler and Ryan Ostler Sellwood’s about to get a brand new bakery—Communion Bakehouse—thanks to life and business partners Ryan Ostler and Katherine Zachler, who are setting up shop in the old Satellite Dream Pizza just a block from their home. Zachler comes to the cutting board with some serious kitchen cred, […]